Foreign Policy

Japanese government refused to allow NSA to tap Japanese internet connections.

"The NSA wanted to intercept personal information including Internet activity and phone calls passing through Japan from Asia including China. The Japanese government refused because it was illegal and would need to involve a massive number of private sector workers. Article 35 of the Japanese Constitution protects against illegal search and seizure."

A government that obeys its Constitution. Crazy.

Obama busted for lying about NSA spying on Merkel. He claims he would have stopped it had he known, but US intelligence sources say Obama was briefed in the spying in 2010. NSA denies.

Israel and NSA are partners in crime.

"It wasn’t the US government breaking into the private communications of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to top secret documents unearthed by Edward Snowden and published in Le Monde – it was the Israelis."

But NSA took the blame.

Even Dick Cheney advocates a diplomatic solution with Iran, saying the military option should only be a threat. The warmongers are grasping at anything to keep the military threat alive. How far they have fallen.  US negotiator calls for delay in new sanctions.

Syria presents plan for destruction of chemical weapons.

A strong majority of Americans support a special congressional panel to investigate Benghazi. British security contractor who defended US consulate during attack speaks for the first time.

"A British security contractor said he repeatedly warned US officials that their diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, was inadequately protected before it suffered a deadly attack last year.

He also described fighting off armed attackers during the al-Qaeda-linked assault, in an attempt to help rescue guards he had trained to man the gates of the compound.

Speaking publicly about the attack for the first time, the contractor, a former British soldier using the pseudonym Morgan Jones "for his own safety", described the experience as "sheer hell".

He claimed that having been employed to train the unarmed guards for the mission's entrance, he told US officials that a team of armed Libyan militiamen hired separately by the State Department to defend the mission in the event of an attack were not up to the task.

"I was saying 'these guys are no good. You need to get them out of here'," he told CBS News, adding that he repeatedly cautioned that they were "not going to stand and fight" if they came under fire. "In the end I got quite bored of hearing my own voice saying it," he said."

Maybe this will shake more information loose.