In April of 2009, images of Mexicans wearing blue surgical masks were beamed onto our TVs, and people with holidays planned out to visit Mexico were advised not to travel. The reason? The H1N1 influenza, which was slowly claiming victim after victim. By mid summer, Mexicans stopped wearing their blue facial masks. Not because the [...]

The House Committee on the Judiciary held its first Congressional Hearing concerning the WikiLeaks leaking of government secrets to the public on December 16, 2010. Congress heard testimony from a variety of witness; such as legal advocate Ralph Nader, law professors Stephen Vladeck and Geoffrey Stone, attorneys Abbe Lowell and Kenneth Wainstein, and Gabriel Schoenfeld [...]

Dana Priest is an award winning journalist for the Washington Post. In the past she has investigated the US government with regards to improper military practices, CIA interrogations and secret prisons. Recently, she answered some of her readers questions about her work and subject matter. We’ve selected some of the more interesting questions and answers [...]

A wondrous portal opened wide; As if a cavern suddenly hallowed; And the Piper advanced and the children followed; – Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1842 Most of us have heard the story of the Pied Piper. References to this age old fairy tale have been made in poetry, pop culture, and film. [...]

Beginning in May 1967 through August of the same year, the CIA operated a series covert reconnaissance missions in North Vietnam dubbed Black Shield. The U.S. Military was concerned that Communist Allies were designing and building surface-to-air (SAM) sites throughout North Korea. It was Black Shield’s goal to seek out and find these sites. This [...]

Having just achieved one of the greatest human experiences known to man, walking on the moon, Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell cruised back toward earth. Over the previous few days he had seen the world from a distance surrounded by eternal light-years of space and he had gazed outwards towards the great beyond. When he returned [...]

From 1949 through much of the ’90s, the former Soviet Union detonated over 600 nuclear weapons in an area known as the Polygon. Also known as the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS), the Polygon was located in northeast Kazakhstan and was used as the primary testing grounds for Soviet nuclear weapons. The site has been closed [...]

From 1929 through most of 1945, the Japanese operated a top secret facility with the sole purpose to produce poison gas used in chemical warfare. The facility is located on a small island located in the Inland Sea of Japan and is only accessible by ferries from Tadanoumi and Ōmishima. The facility was so secret [...]

There are shocking news reports today that the body of John Wheeler was discovered at the Cherry Island Landfill in Delaware last Friday. John Wheeler was the Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force in Washington, D.C. from 2005 through 2008, and toward the end of his military career, served as the Special [...]

Lately, whenever there is a secret report, video, or diplomatic cable leaked to the public, WikiLeaks is the first thing to come to mind. When WikiLeaks comes to mind, one does not think about the site’s hourglass logo. When we hear WikiLeaks, we see Julian Assange, the front-man and co-founder of the whistle-blowing website. However, [...]