Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
NSA Building $860 Million Data Center in Maryland
June 7th, 2013Via: Data Center Knowledge: As its current data collection makes headlines, the National Security Agency is continuing to expand its data storage and processing capabilities. The agency recently broke ground on an $860 million data center at Fort Meade, Maryland that will span more than 600,000 square feet, including 70,000 square feet of technical space. […]
NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook
June 7th, 2013*snore* Why is the media losing its mind over this now? Thanks to Mark Klein, we learned way back in 2007 that NSA was getting everything. Update: And Now… Customer Records from the Three Major Phone Networks, Emails, Web searches, and Credit-Card Transactions Via: Wall Street Journal: The National Security Agency’s monitoring of Americans includes […]
Court Documents: NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Americans Daily
June 6th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April. The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an “ongoing, daily basis” to give […]
Afghanistan: Pentagon Has No Idea What 108,000 Contractors Are Doing
June 4th, 2013Via: The Fiscal Times: The number of contractors working in Afghanistan now vastly outnumbers American troops stationed there, according to a Congressional Research Service report. CRS, along with the Government Accountability Office, also determined that the Pentagon is unable to properly document the work these contractors are doing. And the information DOD is receiving is […]
U.S. Government Clears Path for Iran to Back Orifice Itself
May 31st, 2013Via: Ars Technica: On Thursday, the Obama Administration lifted digital sanctions that for more than two decades have prevented companies that do business in the US from also selling or distributing digital goods—including mobile phones, hosting services, VPNs, and software updates—to Iran. Research Credit: almaverdad2
U.S. Spy Device ‘Tested on NZ Public’
May 27th, 2013Via: New Zealand Herald: A high-tech United States surveillance tool which sweeps up all communications without a warrant was sent to New Zealand for testing on the public, according to an espionage expert. The tool was called ThinThread and it worked by automatically intercepting phone, email and internet information. ThinThread was highly valued by those […]
Inside GCHQ
May 24th, 2013Not as interesting as a dead GCHQ employee, inside a gym bag, inside a safe house, but interesting nonetheless. Via: Register: For staff at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, there’s an air of Fight Club about the place. The first rule about GCHQ is you don’t talk about GCHQ. It’s a well observed […]
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 […]
Court Rules Bin Laden Death Photos Can Stay Secret
May 23rd, 2013Via: Reuters: A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals […]
Florida: Man Under Investigation for Links to Boston Marathon Bomber Killed by FBI
May 22nd, 2013Wife of man killed by FBI agent says he was never questioned about Waltham triple murder Via: Boston Globe: The wife and best friend of the Chechen man shot and killed here by an FBI agent on Wednesday insisted today that authorities never questioned him, or them, prior to the fatal confrontation, about an unsolved […]
