Inside the CIA’s 9/11 Defense: A Rebuke to Oversight
A 2005 memorandum from senior CIA Counterterrorist Center (CTC) officials-J. Cofer Black, Ben Bonk, and Henry Crumpton-mounts a firm rebuttal to the CIA Inspector General’s (IG) draft report on the Agency’s performance before the 9/11 attacks. In their view, the...
How U.S. Intelligence Neutralized UFO Reports Without Explaining Them
In the early years of the Cold War, as the U.S. focused on atomic weapons and espionage threats, it also began logging something far less explainable: unidentified flying objects. While the public saw flying saucers as science fiction, military and intelligence...
Inside Kryptos: The CIA’s Unsolved Puzzle That Still Holds Clues
In the courtyard of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there’s a sculpture made of copper, granite, and mystery. Most employees walk past it every day. Few understand that it’s still talking to them. Kryptos isn’t just an artwork. It’s a deliberate enigma. Four...
How the NSA Weaponized Semantics to Deny Snowden’s Whistleblower Claims
When Edward Snowden claimed he’d raised concerns through official NSA channels before leaking classified documents, the agency responded not with transparency-but with a flurry of FOIA rejections, legal semantics, and redacted letters. Hundreds of pages of internal...
