Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms
June 14th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said. These programs, whose participants are known as trusted partners, extend far beyond what was revealed by Edward […]
U.S. Says It Will Give Military Aid to Syria Rebels
June 14th, 2013For the first time, no less. Via: BBC: The US is to supply direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time, the White House has announced. President Obama made the decision after his administration concluded Syrian forces under Bashar al-Assad were using chemical weapons, a spokesman said. Ben Rhodes did not give […]
The Cyberwar Industrial Complex
June 13th, 2013Via: Wired: In short, despite the sequestration, layoffs, and furloughs in the federal government, it’s a boom time for Alexander. In April, as part of its 2014 budget request, the Pentagon asked Congress for $4.7 billion for increased “cyberspace operations,” nearly $1 billion more than the 2013 allocation. At the same time, budgets for the […]
‘Digital Blackwater’: Meet the Contractors Analyzing Your Private Data
June 12th, 2013Via: Salon: From Narus, the Israeli-born Boeing subsidiary that makes NSA’s high-speed interception software, to CSC, the “systems integrator” that runs NSA’s internal IT system, defense and intelligence, contractors are making millions of dollars selling technology and services that help the world’s largest surveillance system spy on you. If the 70 percent figure is applied […]
U.S. State Department Cover-Ups Range From Prostitution Charges To Drug Rings
June 10th, 2013Via: CBS: CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks. The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department’s security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and with investigating any cases of […]
Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations
June 10th, 2013Remember, The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted? Klein was essentially ignored at first, and people like me, who mentioned Klein’s story and the implications, were called conspiracy theorists… Ok, so why are the same media apparently on-board now? Curious. Via: Guardian: The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history […]
Greenwald Apparently Has Some Technical Details of NSA Intercept Operations but Won’t Publish Them
June 9th, 2013If Greenwald has this, others must as well. It’ll have to be pretty good to top Klein’s revelations from 2007. Via: Twitter: @buffalopundit @green_footballs The highly detailed NSA technical materials on how they eavesdrop, that I have & am not publishing. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 8, 2013
Boundless Informant
June 9th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications. The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless […]
GCHQ Also Accesses PRISM
June 7th, 2013It’s probably not just the U.S. and Britain. See Five Eyes, which also includes Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Via: Guardian: The UK’s electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world’s biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set up by America’s top spy agency, documents obtained by […]
NSA Whistle-Blower: “Now We Are All Persons of Interest”
June 7th, 2013Via: Salon: For Thomas Drake, the former National Security Agency employee who blew the whistle on the agency’s expansive post-9/11 surveillance programs in 2006, the latest revelation of blanket surveillance is simply “déjà vu.” Drake, who was indicted under the Espionage Act and faced life in prison before federal charges against him were eventually dropped, […]
