FBI Director Christopher Wray faces grilling today by House lawmakers in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Watch the hearing, below. Wray’s testimony follows a Monday hearing that led to Kimberly Cheatle resigning from the top slot at the U.S. Secret Service. READ MORE: Oversight Hearing That …
Read More »WATCH: Oversight Hearing That Presaged Resignation of Secret Service Director Cheatle
Following intense grilling from both sides of the aisle, Cheatle on Tuesday resigned her position. Congress on Monday held an oversight hearing on the Secret Service, and the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The sole witness was Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle. Following intense grilling from both sides …
Read More »WATCH: Smuggler Leaves His Human Cargo Trapped Inside Secret Compartment on Texas Highway
Smuggler ethics were caught on camera by Texas law enforcement officers – and the images are stunning. In this video, below, a callous smuggler abandons his human cargo, sealed beneath the floorboards of a flatbed rig. Officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety on April 12 tried to stop …
Read More »Outrage Over Police in Dublin Kicking Irish Flag During Protest
by Susan Katz Keating Critics have noted that Irish people have “fought and died for that flag,” including as part of the mission to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. Nationalists in Ireland have circulated video of Irish police hurling the nation’s flag to the ground, and kicking it during a …
Read More »Call For Fire, Check Your Work: British Soldiers in Action
Pick your strike, and check your work. British soldiers from the 7th Parachute Regiment call for artillery strikes in July while training in the 7th Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr facility in Germany. Watch as they call for fire and inspect the results.
Read More »‘We Didn’t Do It’: Tehran Says Not Involved in Plot to Kill Trump
Iran has vowed revenge against the U.S. for killing its Quds Force commander in 2020, but says it wants to do so in court. Tehran has denied plotting to assassinate Donald Trump after reports emerged that U.S. authorities were told that Iran was planning to kill the Republican presidential nominee. …
Read More »Soldier of Fortune Goes to RIMPAC: Choreography at Sea
Greetings again from Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), in and around the Hawaiian Islands. Here is some of the choreography that goes into the exercise that also leads to strange encounters at sea with puffer fish. SEE MORE from Soldier of Fortune Goes to RIMPAC More than 40 ships …
Read More »When an Ex-KGB Man Helped Stage a Daring Heist in Soviet Moscow
by Nikolay Shevchenko It was late evening when a cash truck pulled up in front of a fancy department store on Mozhayskoye Highway in Moscow. Leaving two partners behind in the truck, the third guard stepped over the store’s threshold to collect the cash that had piled up there throughout …
Read More »Soldier of Fortune Goes to RIMPAC in Hawaii
Greetings from the biennial Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), in and around the Hawaiian Islands. More than 40 ships and submarines, along with more than 200 aircraft and 25,000-plus personnel are taking part. The exercise includes 22 nations, and lasts through Aug. 1. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, …
Read More »This Notorious Bandit Plundered the Old West – Until an Army Camel Driver Crossed His Path
It had to do with an effort to settle the west with camels. A notorious bandit who plundered California for 20 years may owe his capture to a long forgotten military experiment and an Army camel driver. It had to do with an effort to settle the west with camels. …
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