“In the 1958-1968 decade, the U.S. Government approved four covert programs to try to influence the direction of Japanese political life,” the State Department revealed this week in the latest…
A new U.S. Army Field Manual (pdf) introduces the concept of “police intelligence operations,” an emerging hybrid of military intelligence and law enforcement. “Police intelligence operations are a military police…
Last year the National Academy of Public Administration developed a proposal to perform an “ethics audit” of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The proposal was a response, at NIH’s…
(updated below) On January 19, 2006 NASA successfully launched the New Horizons spacecraft on a mission to Pluto. It will fly by the ninth planet on July 14, 2015 before…
Some notable new reports of the Congressional Research Service that are not readily available to the general public include the following. “Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler Aircraft: Background…