Former director of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Michael Hayden says that the U.S. keeps too many cyber-attacks secret. The retired U.S. Air Force four-star general said in an interview that the government and businesses keep cyber attacks a secret for their own reasons and that the country is ill prepared to deal with the ever increasing threat from hackers.
Fox Business will host the sixth main Republican debate tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. The pointless “undercard” debate will air at 6:00. The main debate will have the fewest candidates it has had yet. The field has been reduced to Trump, Cruz, Bush, Rubio, Kasich, Christie, and Carson. Tonight is likely to be the most contentious debate thus far, as all of the candidates have ongoing feuds with two or more of their rivals.
Submitted by Dan Wright via TheAntiMedia.org,
On New Year’s Eve, the State Department released 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails from her tenure as secretary of state. While much of the corporate media dove into investigating pointless gossip, Brad Hoff at the Levant Report decided to look for more clues into understanding the epic failure that was the 2011 war on Libya by the US and NATO.
Michael Brendan Dougherty pokes some holes in the perpetual “Rubio moment”:
As of January 10, the supposedly-moribund Bush campaign has gained as much support in New Hampshire as Rubio even though the nation has been enduring two months of Rubio moments.
A new report claims that Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is suffering from periodic blackouts and an inability to speak. The health of the 80-year-old monarch is reportedly deteriorating and he is under regular medical care. Press TV reports: The Palestinian Manar online newspaper cited an Arab official as saying on Wednesday. The unnamed source further said that King Salman has lost awareness of his surroundings, prompting physicians to advise his sons to restrict their father’s public appearances in a bid not to disclose the worsening conditions.