Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
U.S. Flew Spy Drone Missions from Australia
September 3rd, 2012Via: ABC: The United States flew highly classified Global Hawk spy drone missions from the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh in South Australia from late 2001 until at least 2006. … Global Hawk’s American manufacturer, Northrop Grumman, provided civilian ground crews to service the drones at the RAAF base.
Wal-Mart Tests iPhone App Checkout Feature
September 1st, 2012Wow! Bonus points to Wal-Mart for getting their own employees to test a system that will be used to lay them off. Via: Reuters: Wal-Mart Stores Inc is testing a system that would allow shoppers to scan items using their iPhones and then pay at a self-checkout counter, a move that could trim checkout times […]
Blackwater Pays Millions in Arms Smuggling Case
August 9th, 2012Via: Wired: Depending on how you look at it, the world’s most notorious mercenary firm just got away with misleading the government about arming and training foreign governments — or the company agreed to pay millions, only to defer a potential prosecution on those charges. The firm formerly known as Blackwater has agreed to fork […]
TSA Agents to Staff UK Airports During Olympics
July 18th, 2012Via: Sky News: US security agents are to be based at Heathrow and some other UK airports for the duration of the Olympic? Games, according to Sky sources. The Department for Transport has reached an agreement with the US Transportation Security Administration for specialist agents to be working at several UK airports. They will arrive […]
G4S Cocks Up Security for Olympics
July 13th, 2012Via: Guardian: The depth of the crisis over G4S’s Olympic security preparations became increasingly clear on Thursday as recruits revealed details of a “totally chaotic” selection process and police joined the military in bracing themselves to fill the void left by the private security contractor. Guards told how, with 14 days to go until the […]
Top CIA Spy Accused of Being a Mafia Hitman
June 27th, 2012Via: Wired: Enrique “Ricky” Prado’s resume reads like the ultimate CIA officer: veteran of the Central American wars, running the CIA’s operations in Korea, a top spy in America’s espionage programs against China, and deputy to counter-terrorist chief Cofer Black — and then a stint at Blackwater. But he’s also alleged to have started out […]
G4S Chief Predicts Mass Police Privatisation
June 21st, 2012Via: Guardian: Private companies will be running large parts of the UK’s police service within five years, according to the world’s biggest security firm. David Taylor-Smith, the head of G4S for the UK and Africa, said he expected police forces across the country to sign up to similar deals to those on the table in […]
Obama Asserts Executive Privilege on Fast and Furious Documents
June 20th, 2012Via: CNN: President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege over documents sought by a House committee investigating the botched Fast and Furious gun-running sting, according to a letter to the panel Wednesday from Deputy Attorney Gen. James Cole. The move means the Department of Justice can withhold the documents from the House Oversight Committee, which […]
Active CIA Employees Developed Alien Language for Disney Children’s Film
June 18th, 2012[???] Via: Silver Screen Saucers: One of the most eyebrow-raising cases of government involvement in a Hollywood UFO movie in recent years is that of Race to Witch Mountain (2009), which apparently received extensive support from the CIA – albeit in an ‘off the books’ capacity – despite its plot drawing extensively from UFO mythology […]
Several Pentagon Contractors Recruiting for Offensive Cyberwarfare Jobs
June 16th, 2012Via: Forbes: Over the past few months, Hypponen has been periodically visiting the “careers” section of defense contractors’ websites and online job listings, particularly those targeted at candidates with secret clearances, and searching for words like “exploit,” “offensive,” and “vulnerability.” And the positions he’s been seeing show a new recruiting focus–or newly explicit focus–among the […]
