Paul Gackle grew up in the newsroom and he’s determined to carry journalism into the future.

Gackle started covering sports for his family’s newspaper, the McLean County Independent, in North Dakota as a teenager and he recently reported on the Giants, 49ers and A’s as a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner.

In addition to the Examiner, Gackle has published work with the East Bay Express, the Winnipeg Free Press and PBS Frontline.

Growing up in Canada, Gackle fell in love with hockey. He blogged about the now-defunct San Francisco Bulls in his first iteration of The Gackle Report and was the team’s color analyst on for radio on KNBR.com and TV with Comcast Hometown Network.

J. Kirk Weibe was raised in rural Indiana. He became an analyst at NSA and later worked in both technical and management positions. Wiebe and the unit of 70 analysts that he managed received two prestigious NSA awards. He then linked up with Ed Loomis and Bill Binney in their determination to modernize and automate NSA. After 26 years of service, he retired along with them after NSA rejected their THINTHREAD approach in favor of the TRAILBLAZER program. Wiebe then organized a confidential hotline complaint asking the Inspector General of the Dept. of Defense to investigate TRAILBLAZER's waste of money and ethical problems. Loomis, Roark and Binney also signed it, and Tom Drake assisted the investigators. After a 2-1/2 year investigation The I.G. verified their complaints, but the findings are still kept classified. After the Times leak about warrantless wiretaps, the FBI immediately demanded that the I.G. turn over the confidential names of those who had requested the investigation. All 5 were raided in 2007. Six years later, they are still attempting to recover their property.

Thomas Drake is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower. In 2010 the government alleged that Drake 'mishandled' documents, one of the few such Espionage Act cases in U.S. history. Drake's defenders claim that he was instead being persecuted for challenging the Trailblazer Project. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award.

On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pled to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer; Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, who helped represent him, called it an act of "civil disobedience."

BACKGROUND
William Binney and Thomas Drake, are former high-ranking NSA officials who found out early about NSA's domestic surveillance program and opposed it through proper channels.

Binney was a senior cryptographer. He was also NSA's ranking expert in signal "externals" -- much of which they now call digital "metadata," something you've heard a lot about lately. He designed a breakthrough subsystem that, to his horror, became a critical component of NSA's domestic surveillance system.

Binney left NSA and reported the domestic surveillance to Congress. He was also one of four persons asking the Defense Department Inspector General to investigate rampant waste, inefficiency and unethical conduct in NSA's modernization program. Drake helped the IG from inside NSA. After a 2-1/2 year investigation, their allegations were corraborated, but the findings were kept secret.

For these activities on behalf of citizens and taxpayers, Binney, Drake and three others paid dearly.

In 2007, they were raided. The FBI was investigating the 2005 leak of one part of the surveillance program to the New York Times. The investigation dragged on for years. Their clearances were permanently withdrawn despite their innocence, so they lost lucrative incomes. Legal bills mounted, in Drake's case reducing him from comfortable savings to indebtedness and resort to a public defender.

Drake was indicted on charges that the government knew to be false. He was threatened with 35 years in prison under the Espionage Act, in order to extract a guilty plea. Under great pressure, he repeatedly refused to do so. He was accused of possessing five classified documents, but pre-trial hearings showed that the documents in question had been classified retroactively in order to frame him. Four days before the trial, the government dropped all ten charges in the indictment. Drake pleaded guilty only to a misdemeanor "exceeding authorized use of a government computer".

After the trial, Drake mounted a public campaign against domestic surveillance and was soon joined by Binney.

Thomas Drake is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower. In 2010 the government alleged that Drake 'mishandled' documents, one of the few such Espionage Act cases in U.S. history. Drake's defenders claim that he was instead being persecuted for challenging the Trailblazer Project. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award.

On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pled to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer; Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, who helped represent him, called it an act of "civil disobedience."

BACKGROUND
William Binney and Thomas Drake, are former high-ranking NSA officials who found out early about NSA's domestic surveillance program and opposed it through proper channels.

Binney was a senior cryptographer. He was also NSA's ranking expert in signal "externals" -- much of which they now call digital "metadata," something you've heard a lot about lately. He designed a breakthrough subsystem that, to his horror, became a critical component of NSA's domestic surveillance system.

Binney left NSA and reported the domestic surveillance to Congress. He was also one of four persons asking the Defense Department Inspector General to investigate rampant waste, inefficiency and unethical conduct in NSA's modernization program. Drake helped the IG from inside NSA. After a 2-1/2 year investigation, their allegations were corraborated, but the findings were kept secret.

For these activities on behalf of citizens and taxpayers, Binney, Drake and three others paid dearly.

In 2007, they were raided. The FBI was investigating the 2005 leak of one part of the surveillance program to the New York Times. The investigation dragged on for years. Their clearances were permanently withdrawn despite their innocence, so they lost lucrative incomes. Legal bills mounted, in Drake's case reducing him from comfortable savings to indebtedness and resort to a public defender.

Drake was indicted on charges that the government knew to be false. He was threatened with 35 years in prison under the Espionage Act, in order to extract a guilty plea. Under great pressure, he repeatedly refused to do so. He was accused of possessing five classified documents, but pre-trial hearings showed that the documents in question had been classified retroactively in order to frame him. Four days before the trial, the government dropped all ten charges in the indictment. Drake pleaded guilty only to a misdemeanor "exceeding authorized use of a government computer".

After the trial, Drake mounted a public campaign against domestic surveillance and was soon joined by Binney.

Cobra is a Pleiadian contactee and has been in contact with the underground for over 35 years. He has been told to remain anonymous by The Resistance and has ongoing communications with beings from Planet X that assist The Resistance Movement. As an earthly representative of the Agarthan network and the light forces, he strives to prepare humanity for the up and coming event horizon.

Our intention is to dissipate fear, clear up any misunderstandings, and add insights into what is really happening behind the daily headlines.