On Friday, July 31, 2026, Lieutenant Commander James M. Ennes, Jr., US Navy, ret., slipped his cable and unfurled his sails. With the Great Pilot at the helm, he set a course to his final home port. LCDR Ennes, then Lieutenant Ennes, was serving aboard the USS Liberty...
New Appeals Briefs Filed in USS Liberty FOIA Lawsuit
On Monday, April 7, 2025, the opening brief in Kinnucan v. NSA et al. (no. 24-7642) was filed in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal seeks to reverse a US District Court decision that a 57-year-old report in the possession of the National Security Agency...
Federalism, New Hampshire, and the USS Liberty
In 1986, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was awarded the "Seal Medallion of the Central Intelligence Agency 'In recognition of his outstanding accomplishments as... a leader in establishing the oversight of intelligence…'" By 1995, on the first day of the first...
Deadly USS Liberty Attack Records Remain Secret – For Now
On November 21, 2024, Senior Judge Marsha J. Pechman of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington issued what seems likely to be her final order in Kinnucan v. National Security Agency et al. The order came more than four years after the federal...


