Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Hacker Dies a Week Before Showing Techniques for Attacking Implanted Heart Devices That He Said Could Kill a Man from 30 Feet Away
July 26th, 2013Via: Reuters: Well-known hacker Barnaby Jack has died in San Francisco, a week before he was due to show off techniques for attacking implanted heart devices that he said could kill a man from 30 feet away. The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office said he died in the city on Thursday. It gave no details. […]
Ace Of Spades For Michael Hastings: DARPA Contractors Take Control Of Moving Vehicles— “And The Next Thing You Know, You’re On The News”
July 25th, 2013In his book, The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan, Michael Hastings recalled the incident. “We’ll hunt you down and kill you if we don’t like what you write,” the staffer threatened, according to Hastings, who responded: “Well, I get death threats like that about once a year, so […]
Leaked Report Shows High Civilian Death Toll from CIA Drone Strikes
July 23rd, 2013This only covers the period from 2006 to 2009. Via: Salon: A secret document obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals for the first time the Pakistan government’s internal assessment of dozens of drone strikes, and shows scores of civilian casualties. The United States has consistently claimed only a tiny number of non-combatants have […]
Michael Hastings’ Body Cremated Against Wishes of Family Members
July 17th, 2013Update: Reporter Misquoting Joe Biggs This was sent in by TB. Thanks TB. Via: Twitter: colleen menzies ?@colleenmenzies 17 Jul Something Fishy @Rambobiggs @peterjludlow: So Hastings’ body is cremated without the family’s consent. wow.just wow. http://www.sandiego6.com/story/hastings-investigation-20130714 …” Details SSG Joe Biggs ?@Rambobiggs @colleenmenzies @peterjludlow nope. Not true. Never said that NomNomDePlume ‘Agent’ Lamo JT aka. […]
Corpus Christi Judge Found Dead from Gunshot Wound
July 16th, 2013Update: Suicide Via: AP: South Texas authorities have confirmed that a state district judge found dead in his chambers took his own life. The Nueces County sheriff’s Office said Tuesday it’s not clear why Judge Tom Greenwell shot himself but that a handwritten will was found nearby. Greenwell was supposed to be on vacation at […]
Mexican Police Chief Killed with Rifle from Fast and Furious Program
July 8th, 2013Via: Los Angeles Times: A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF’s Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the hands of violent […]
‘KKK Member, Accomplice Created Lethal X-ray System, FBI Says’
June 20th, 2013Via: CNN: Two New York state men have been charged in a bizarre plan to develop a mobile X-ray system that would be used from afar to silently kill people that they deemed “undesirable,” federal officials said. Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, and Eric J. Feight, 54, were arrested Tuesday after an undercover operation by the […]
Journalist Michael Hastings Dies In Car Crash
June 19th, 2013Update: Autopsy Shows Journalist Michael Hastings Had Meth, Pot In System At Time Of Fiery Auto Crash Via: The Smoking Gun: The family of journalist Michael Hastings was trying to get him into drug rehab at the time he died in a fiery Los Angeles car wreck, according to a coroner’s report released today. Hastings, […]
Father of Chechen Killed in Florida Says FBI Murdered Him
May 30th, 2013Via: Washington Post: Despite earlier accounts of the incident,two law enforcement officials told The Washington Post on Wednesday that Todashev was not armed. His father said that he was shot seven times. The FBI has said that he attacked an agent, just moments after confessing to his part in the Waltham slayings. The elder Todashev […]
U.S. Acknowledges Killing of Four U.S. Citizens in Counterterrorism Operations
May 23rd, 2013More transparent and accountable now, promise. *wink* Via: Washington Post: The Obama administration acknowledged Wednesday that it has killed four Americans in overseas counterterrorism operations since 2009, the first time it has publicly taken responsibility for the deaths. Although the acknowledgment, contained in a letter from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to Congress, does […]
