CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, is in the news because someone in attendance was infected with the coronavirus, and shook hands with Sen. Ted Cruz and Matt Schlapp, the head of the American Conservative Union (ACU), which puts on CPAC. Schlapp shook hands with President Donald Trump and his…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that questioned acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire on Thursday, used parody, by his own admission, to begin the hearing. He imagined what President Donald Trump might have said during his July 25 telephone conversation…
With President Donald Trump’s announcement on May 23rd that he has authorized Attorney General William Barr to begin the declassification process of everything related to the start of the Russian Collusion investigation, we may finally be at a point where people from the Obama administration will start to be held…
It didn’t take long for the Trump opposition media to decide how to counter the notion that President Donald Trump had somehow been “exonerated” by the Mueller report. Upon the initial news stories that special counsel Robert Mueller had turned over the report to Attorney General William Barr, those in…
That is the conclusion of a one-day symposium put on by the Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS), a new non-profit national security watchdog organization consisting of former high-ranking military officers, CIA officers, congressmen and others who have come together to help strengthen America’s national security. The CCNS’s first major…
Yesterday America lost a great man, Admiral James “Ace” Lyons (retired). He was a patriot, a warrior, a leader, a husband, father and friend. At age 91, he continued writing a semi-regular column. What turned out to be his final column was written just last month. I got to know…
As Thanksgiving approaches, I just wanted to give thanks to the friends and supporters of the Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS). And to wish all of you a very peaceful, loving Thanksgiving holiday shared with friends and family. We, the CCNS, have just gotten started, and are planning to…
We are just hours away from what is being billed as one of, if not the most important, election in our lifetime. There is no doubt that the stakes and the consequences are enormous. We will either face two years of hearings, subpoenas and investigations into the Trump White House…
This year the World Cup, soccer’s quadrennial moment to capture the world’s attention, featured the final four teams all coming from Europe at a time when Europe is front and center on the world stage. Starting on July 11, NATO is meeting in Brussels, beginning the day after Belgium fell…
Today marks the launch of a new watchdog organization, the Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS). Its mission is to strengthen America’s national security by focusing on our government’s policies and holding our elected officials and their appointed personnel accountable in the public arena for the policies they develop and…
On June 29, the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington to discuss the release of its new report on the events surrounding the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the Special Mission Compound and CIA Annex, resulting in the deaths…