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IRmep fills in John Emshwiller’s many information gaps The November 22, 2013 Wall Street Journal report by John R. Emshwiller attempts to update readers about the story of a 1960s Israeli diversion of nuclear…

The fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is largely being trivialized in elite U.S. corporate media.  Regardless of what one thinks of JFK’s legacy, one significant outcome to his killing should be better…

Soviet espionage expert David Wise wrote about the first mole hunt in the FBI.  On C-SPANs Washington Journal, IRmep Research Director Grant F. Smith asks Wise, given his success in obtaining information about…

Absent greater transparency, Americans should assume the worst In 1968 Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms wrote urgently to Attorney General Ramsey Clark and President Lyndon B. Johnson that some highly enriched…

After a comprehensive debunking by IRmep, the Washington Post quietly corrected a Walter Pincus report that implied the U.S. was supporting Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons program. On November 28, 2012 national security reporter Walter…

Bruce Fein and Grant F. Smith debate whether it is time to celebrate the demise of the neoconservative grip on U.S. Middle East policy.  Fein reviews the overwhelming public refusal to approve…

What is the difference between U.S. aid to Egypt and Israel? Why is the appointment of Martin Indyk to represent the U.S. in peace negotiations such a terrible move?  What are some Arab states…

Real polluters unlikely to pay if government maintains lid on toxic secrets The U.S. Department of Defense guided the National Security Council’s development of an official Obama administration position on the U.S….

“…In that year, a 1947 Congressional hearing revealed, it had begun providing information on the recently formed National Lawyers Guild and on individuals applying for federal civil service jobs and some who…

Brooking’s Michael O’Hanlon flees panel debate after tough questions with Antiwar’s Kelly Vlahos and IRmep’s Grant Smith on “Crosstalk.”

…In the late 1960s, the OAS worked hard to unite visiting Arab international students studying in the US with Arab-American counterparts interested in connecting to developments in the region, primarily in Palestine….

Hank Greenspun was a convicted felon who, according to his FBI file, in the late forties stole .50 calibre machine guns from the US Navy and violated Arms Export control laws in…

…True to that motto, the money this �charity� raises benefits exclusively the soldiers of a foreign country that has not fought a war longer than 33 days in 40 years and whose…