Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
U.S. Man Caught Smuggling Grenade Parts to Mexico Cartel
September 7th, 2011Fast and Furious We-Like-Things-That-Go-Boom Edition? Via: Reuters: Mexican police arrested a U.S. man accused of trafficking grenade and gun parts to one of the country’s deadliest drug cartels in a sign the gangs could now be making their own weapons, authorities said on Tuesday. Federal police captured Jean Baptiste Kingery last week at a house […]
Snowballing DigiNotar Situation: Rogue SSL Certificates Were Also Issued for CIA, MI6, Mossad
September 5th, 2011SSLLOL. Via: HelpNetSecurity: The number of rogue SSL certificates issued by Dutch CA DigiNotar has balooned from one to a couple dozen to over 250 to 531 in just a few days. As Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor project shared the full list of the rogue certificates, it became clear that fraudulent certificates for domains […]
CIA, MI6 Helped Gaddafi on Dissidents
September 4th, 2011[???] Via: Reuters: Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. The documents were uncovered by the human rights activist group in the abandoned offices of Libya’s former spy chief and […]
Multiple White House Officials Knew About Fast and Furious Arms Trafficking Operation
September 4th, 2011Via: CBS: CBS News has obtained a series of emails that show the White House had more information on ATF’s controversial Fast and Furious operation than previously disclosed. But administration officials insists nobody at the White House knew specifically that ATF was allowing guns to “walk” into the hands of suspected gun traffickers for Mexican […]
The Washington Post Piece About the ‘Wasted’ Tens of Billions of Dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan
September 4th, 2011There are, however, a few metrics by which “victory” for the U.S. in Afghanistan may be measured. First of all, the fact that mayhem continues is a victory for the corporations that profit from the absurd war-related contracts. There’s the unknown billions of heroin related dollars that are generated from covert operations in Afghanistan. The […]
Mossad Cut Deal with New Zealand Government to Secure Early Release of Operatives
September 1st, 2011Via: New Zealand Herald: Israeli spies convicted of trying to obtain false passports got off lightly in exchange for the return of several more illegally obtained New Zealand passports, Nicky Hagar’s book claims. Other People’s Wars, was released yesterday and investigates New Zealand’s role in the “war on terror”. The book claims that after the […]
Documents Reveal New Details About DHS Development of Mobile Body Scanners; Not Certified “People Scanners”
September 1st, 2011Too much radiation. No consent. Via: EPIC: EPIC has obtained more than one hundred fifty pages of documents detailing the Department of Homeland Security’s development of mobile body scanners and other crowd surveillance technology. The documents were obtained as a result of a Freedom Information Act lawsuit brought by EPIC against the federal agency. According […]
Nicky Hager: Other People’s Wars
September 1st, 2011“This is…by far the largest leak of military and intelligence documents in the history of New Zealand.” —Nicky Hager (Audio from press conference linked below) Via: Scoop: Nicky Hager’s new book Other People’s Wars: New Zealand in Afghanistan, Iraq and the war on terror was released today at 9am by Craig Potton Publishing. A press […]
Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reign of Terror in Tripoli is the Monster Abdel Hakim Belhadj, aka Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi, Friend of Osama Bin Laden, former US POW, and Infamous Killer of US Soldiers in Afghanistan
September 1st, 2011Via: Tarpley: According to the London Daily Telegraph of March 26, Darna (also transliterated as Derna or Darnah), a key city in the rebel heartland between Benghazi in Tobruk, is commanded by al-Hasidi, an al Qaeda terrorist controller who trained and hobnobbed with Osama bin Laden at the Khost terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Hasidi […]
Billing Dispute Reveals Details of Secret CIA Rendition Flights
September 1st, 2011Via: Washington Post: On Aug. 12, 2003, a Gulfstream IV aircraft carrying six passengers took off from Dulles International Airport and flew to Bangkok with fueling stops in Cold Bay, Alaska, and Osaka, Japan. Before it returned four days later, the plane also touched down in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates and Ireland. […]
