J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret Files: You Won’t Believe What Your Taxes Paid For
They were assembled on public time, with public money, and thus belonged to the American people. Although “secret,” and apart from the normal filing system, their existence was known by scores of persons. It was suspected, at least, by anyone with an intimate knowledge of the government of the era.
Whitey Bulger and the FBI: Who Were the Good Guys? The Bad Guys?
It wouldn’t really be a disaster if “the clowns were running the circus,” somewhere. Our society could probably survive a corrupted circus. But when criminals run law enforcement organizations, the outcomes can be very sinister.
Mark Lombardi: Conspiracy Theorist or Tactical Genius?
Sure, suicide occurs with every 15,000 people or so. And poor Mark Lombardi was probably just one of those people. And yet, the number of "suicides" committed by people who've exposed corruption, or plan too, sometimes defies those statistics. Case by case, it...
Hacking Democracy: For My Vote, One of Our Most Frightening Stories
You participate in democracy. You send your vote off to a central computer, somewhere. What could possibly go wrong? We at Mind Over Mystery are not sure which is the more interesting story--that since the dawn of computer voting several elections have, at a very...
Korean Air Flight 007: Was it Spying? An Act of War?
Everything about flight 007 was odd, the route, the communication, the whole works. It flew right over and through some of the most sensitive areas in all of the eastern Soviet Union. South Korea, and its ally the United States, maintain the violation of Soviet air...
Alberto Nisman: When Everyone Calls a “Suicide” a Murder
Everyone assumes it was an assassination—an audacious hit on a major political figure the day before he was going to make a a biting public speech with plenty of accusations. The bold take-out of a very bold man. Even the then-president of Argentina, Christina...
