Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Shocker: ‘Underwear Bomber’ Run by U.S. Intelligence
March 30th, 2013Via: Atlantic Wire: According to five people familiar with the call, Brennan stressed that the plot was never a threat to the U.S. public or air safety because Washington had “inside control” over it. Brennan’s comment appears unintentionally to have helped lead to disclosure of the secret at the heart of a joint U.S.-British-Saudi undercover […]
U.S. Army Veteran Charged with Fighting with Al-Qaida in Syria
March 30th, 2013Harroun’s father: “I know he was doing some work for the CIA over there… I know for a fact that he was passing information on to the CIA.” Via: Washington Post: A U.S. Army veteran, who boasted on Facebook of his military adventures with Syrian rebels, was charged Thursday with firing rocket propelled grenades as […]
Obama’s Crackdown on Whistleblowers and the NSA-SAIC-Trailblazer Fraud
March 29th, 2013Via: The Nation: In the annals of national security, the Obama administration will long be remembered for its unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. Since 2009, it has employed the World War I–era Espionage Act a record six times to prosecute government officials suspected of leaking classified information. The latest example is John Kiriakou, a former CIA […]
‘Kerry, Karzai Bury Hatchet in Kabul Meeting’
March 26th, 2013Sequence of events: 1) 10 March 2013, Karzai Says Taliban ‘In Service to America’: “My guess is that Karzai probably perceives that he’s not getting a big enough cut of the opium pie.” 2) 12 March 2013, Over 20 Tons of Heroin Seized in Afghanistan: “Can you hear me now?” 3) 25 March 2013: John […]
Shocker: CIA Airlifting Weapons to Syrian Rebels
March 25th, 2013Via: New York Times: With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts […]
Elizabeth Warren: ‘How Many Billions Have To Be Laundered For Drug Lords Before We Consider Shutting Down A Bank?’
March 22nd, 2013Via: Daily Bail: During Senate testimony Liz Warren asks how much drug-laundered money it takes before banking regulators consider shutting down a bank. Hilarity ensues. And no one ever answers the question. Witnesses were: David Cohen, Sec. for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Treasury Thomas Curry, Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Jerome […]
Homeland Security Will Scan More Private Web Traffic and Email
March 22nd, 2013Via: Reuters: The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic headed into and out of defense contractors to include far more of the country’s private, civilian-run infrastructure. As a result, more private sector employees than ever before, including those at big banks, utilities and key transportation companies, will have their emails […]
CIA CTO: ‘We Fundamentally Try To Collect Everything And Hang On To It Forever’
March 21st, 2013Via: Huffington Post: The CIA’s chief technology officer outlined the agency’s endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday. Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO Ira “Gus” Hunt said that the world is increasingly awash in information from text messages, tweets, and videos […]
Defense Contractor Allegedly Compromised by Honey Trap
March 20th, 2013Via: ABC: A defense contractor and former U.S. Army officer has been charged with communicating national defense secrets to a 27-year-old Chinese national with whom he had a romantic relationship. According to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court Monday in Hawaii, Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 59, who held a top secret clearance, transmitted “national defense […]
Amazon and CIA Ink Cloud Deal
March 20th, 2013Via: FCW: In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps […]
