Domestic Glance
Thousands of pages of CIA intelligence briefs that presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson came to heavily rely upon are being made public for the first time.
The documents released Wednesday offer a rare peek into the real-time intelligence the White House received during the Vietnam War and other major events of the 1960s. In all, roughly 19,000 pages of daily CIA briefings have been partially declassified.
CIA declassifies trove of Cold War-era intelligence memos
3 inmates dead, 5 hurt in incident at Oklahoma prison
A disturbance at an Oklahoma prison that left three inmates dead and five injured, months after several prisoners were hurt during a large brawl at the facility.
The disturbance Saturday lasted about 40 minutes and was contained to one housing pod at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, said Steve Owen, a spokesman for Corrections Corporation of America, the Tennessee-based company that owns and operates the prison.
Florida man arrested in alleged Kansas City 9/11 memorial bomb plot
A Florida man has been arrested and accused of plotting to detonate a pressure-cooker bomb at a memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
Joshua Ryne Goldberg, 20, was arrested on charges of distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction, the department said. His arrest was announced a day before the 14th anniversary of the attacks.
Washington Supreme Court Expels Charter Schools From State Public School System
The charter school movement has been expelled from Washington state’s public education system, with a Supreme Court ruling late Friday that the privately run schools are not public schools under the state’s constitution.
Meanwhile, the quick fix for that sizeable hurdle sought by the state’s charter school proponents—a special legislative session—does not appear likely because Washington’s public education sector is embroiled in more controversial and larger battles.
50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked
More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military's Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.
The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.
“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official said.
For-Profit Prison Gets Rich Locking Up Preschoolers
If you’re looking to make some money, try locking up toddlers.
One for-profit prison company has found that incarcerating infants, toddlers, children, and mothers—as long as they’re undocumented immigrants—is a great way to boost their revenue by upward of $49 million over the previous year.
The latest quarterly finance report from Corrections Corporation of America, a for-profit prison company, indicates that its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to manage a detention center packed with immigrant mothers and children is very helpful to its bottom line.
Alison Parker's parents on gun-control fight: 'We cannot be intimidated'
It's been less than a week since murder set their lives onto a new course, into roles they never wanted to take on and into a battle they never planned to fight.
But only five days in, Andy and Barbara Parker -- the parents of slain television journalist Alison Parker -- speak about gun control with a passion as if they'd spent their lifetimes fighting for it.
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