Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
July 20th, 2012Prop Master of Dark Knight Rises Died 3 Months Before Movie Release Via: Daily Paul: So, the map says “Sandy Hook”…Well, the ‘prop master’ for the Dark Knight movie, Scott Ketzinger, died in early April of this year, just months before the movies release. As I’m understanding this (please correct me if I’m wrong), it […]
NSA Building Dossiers on Every American
July 18th, 2012Are They building electronic dossiers on as many of us as they can? I don’t know, but it sure looks that way. —NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite (2007) Via: Network World: Binney was at HOPE and while his entire keynote is not yet posted, journalist Geoff Shively and Livestreamer Tim Pool had an […]
Heathrow Security Checks Miss Terror Suspects
July 15th, 2012Mmm hmm. Via: Guardian: Terror suspects on the Home Office watch list are entering the UK in the runup to the Olympics without the necessary security checks, according to frontline officials at Heathrow. One senior border officer told the Observer that inexperienced new recruits, deployed to shorten queues after complaints over lengthy waiting times, are […]
And Now… JPMorgan “Loss” $7 Billion
July 14th, 2012Via: New York Times: JPMorgan Chase disclosed on Friday that losses on its botched credit bet could climb to more than $7 billion and that the bank’s traders may have intentionally tried to obscure the full extent of the red ink on the disastrous trades. Mounting concerns about valuing the trades led the company to […]
DoD Report Reveals Some Detainees Interrogated While Drugged, Others “Chemically Restrained”
July 12th, 2012Via: Truthout: Detainees in custody of the US military were interrogated while drugged with powerful antipsychotic and other medications that “could impair an individual’s ability to provide accurate information,” according to a declassified Department of Defense (DoD) inspector general’s report that probed the alleged use of “mind altering drugs” during interrogations. In addition, detainees were […]
How Many Child Molestors Work for the NRO?
July 12th, 2012Via: McClatchy: One of the nation’s most secretive intelligence agencies is pressuring its polygraphers to obtain intimate details of the private lives of thousands of job applicants and employees, pushing the ethical and legal boundaries of a program that’s designed instead to catch spies and terrorists. The National Reconnaissance Office is so intent on extracting […]
Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts
July 12th, 2012Via: The Chronicle of Higher Education: In a small, anonymous office in the Trump Tower, 28 floors above Wall Street, a man sits in front of a computer screen sifting through satellite images of a foreign desert. The images depict a vast, sandy emptiness, marked every so often by dunes and hills. He is searching […]
Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF’s Lawsuit Over Government’s Massive Spying Program
July 5th, 2012Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: San Francisco – Three whistleblowers – all former employees of the National Security Agency (NSA) – have come forward to give evidence in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) lawsuit against the government’s illegal mass surveillance program, Jewel v. NSA. In a motion filed today, the three former intelligence analysts confirm that […]
Why is SOCOM Lying About Domestic Drone Activities?
June 28th, 2012Via: Public Intelligence: A spokesman for U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has provided statements to publications in New Hampshire and Oregon indicating that information regarding domestic drone activities provided by Public Intelligence is inaccurate, despite confirmations from the offices of two U.S. Senators. Following our publication last week of a map of current and proposed […]
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 […]
