Pilot ejects as thunderbird crashes after the Air Force Academy Graduation

Developing Story: A thunderbird crashed today shortly after conducting the fly over at the U.S. Air Force graduation ceremony. The pilot is reported to have ejected prior to impact and appears to be uninjured. President Obama attended the event and was still at graduation site at the time of the crash.  A local news station is reporting […]

Indoctrination as a Homeless Veteran (Pt.2)

I simply said, “Prison rules are for life.” A joke in most circles, which unfortunately led to bedtimes stories passed about the room on the many and various places the men had been incarcerated.

CIA ex-boss: secretive spooks tolerated in UK more than in US

British people are not demanding more transparency from the intelligence services as loudly as Americans, the former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA has said. Michael Hayden played a pivotal, leading role in American intelligence until he was replaced as director of the CIA shortly into the presidency of Barack Obama. […]

Active Shooter at UCLA: Two dead, one possibly the gunman

This morning at approximately 10:00 am local time, there was an active shooter reported at UCLA in the Engineering IV building, which resulted in the campus being put on lockdown. Police reported finding two deceased men in the engineering building at 11:40 am. One of the deceased men could possibly be the gunman but police state they are […]

Intelligence briefings come with presidential nomination

WASHINGTON — After the political convention confetti is swept away, a more sobering tradition of the presidential election begins: The regular, top-secret intelligence briefings for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. Started by President Harry S. Truman, the briefings are designed to get the candidates, before they walk into the Oval Office, […]

Army veteran suffering from PTSD identified as active shooter in Houston

Police sources have identified the suspect in Sunday’s deadly west Houston shooting as Dionisio Garza III. According to police sources, the suspect previously served in the military and served several tours of duty overseas. Sources also said he had recently expressed anti-government sentiments. A second man identified as Byron Wilson is no longer a suspect and […]

Military veteran finds a mission nursing fellow vets at VA

Nursing assistant Tom Alligood wears camouflage scrubs during his emergency room shifts at the Dorn VA hospital because he says it helps other veteran patients realize they’ve “walked over the same dirt,” the 62-year-old former Army tanker says. And he doesn’t just mean the desert sands of Iraq. Alligood means homelessness, job loss and the […]

Holder: Snowden did ‘service,’ but should still be punished

WASHINGTON –  Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a “public service” in stoking a national debate about secret domestic surveillance programs, but that he should still return to the U.S. to stand trial. As a National Security Agency contractor, Snowden leaked details in 2013 of the U.S. government’s warrantless surveillance of […]