Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Greek Coastguard Forces Canadian ‘Freedom Flotilla’ Vessel Back to Port; Irish, Swedish Ships Sabotaged
July 4th, 2011Nothing resulted from Israel’s slaughter of civilians and piracy last year, so… So it goes… Via: Guardian: An attempt by one of the Gaza-bound “freedom flotilla” ships to defy the Greek government and escape from port was thwarted on Monday when armed coastguard officials caught up with the vessel and forced it back to shore. […]
DOJ Criminal Investigation Into Deaths That Resulted from CIA Torture
June 30th, 2011Via: MSNBC / AP: Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday he has authorized a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two terror detainees who died overseas while the CIA was involved in interrogating them. During the Bush administration, Attorney General Michael Mukasey asked a federal prosecutor in Connecticut to look into the destruction of […]
U.S. Government Launching Antitrust Investigation of Google
June 24th, 2011Oh sure. I bet Google is quivering with fear. Via: Wall Street Journal: Federal regulators are poised to hit Google Inc. with subpoenas, launching a broad, formal investigation into whether the Internet giant has abused its dominance in Web-search advertising, people familiar with the matter said. The civil probe, which has the potential to reshape […]
Sinister Public-Private Partnership to Spy on Web Users
June 23rd, 2011Via: Guardian: When President Eisenhower left office in 1960, he provided the American people with a warning. “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Sixty years later, […]
Thailand: Corporate-Funded “People’s” Movement
June 22nd, 2011Via: Land Destroyer: So then it is alarming when these nefarious agents of the global corporate-financier elite have now aligned against yet another nation, Thailand. More alarming is how the progressive activists committed to Thaksin and his political party, are seemingly so profoundly ignorant of the nature of the movement they are helping to propel […]
NSA Allies with Internet Carriers to Thwart Cyber Attacks Against Defense Firms
June 17th, 2011Oh sure. Via: Washington Post: The National Security Agency is working with Internet providers to deploy a new generation of tools to scan e-mail and other digital traffic with the goal of thwarting cyberattacks against defense firms by foreign adversaries, senior defense and industry officials say. The novel program, which began last month on a […]
Pentagon in Search of ‘Secret’ Farmers for Afghanistan
June 16th, 2011Via: National Journal: The Department of Defense is looking to hire agriculture specialists to send to Afghanistan. That’s nothing especially new — Afghanistan’s economy is heavily agricultural, the health of the country’s economy is directly tied to the mission of rolling back Taliban influence, and the U.S. has been sending farming consultants there for years. […]
Ex-Spy Alleges Bush White House Sought to Discredit Critic
June 16th, 2011Via: New York Times: A former senior C.I.A. official says that officials in the Bush White House sought damaging personal information on a prominent American critic of the Iraq war in order to discredit him. Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President […]
Operation Fast and Furious
June 16th, 2011Maybe it’s an effort to create so much chaos that people will beg for more gun control? Just a guess. Via: Reuters: U.S. firearms agents told lawmakers on Wednesday they were instructed to only watch as hundreds of guns were bought, illegally resold and sent to Mexico where drug-related violence has raged for years. Agents […]
$6.7 Billion In Cash Missing in Iraq
June 15th, 2011I don’t know how many times I’ve posted this one, but CNN has just aired a new piece about it, and, yep, the cash is still missing. Maybe it went to the same place as the missing $2.3 trillion that Rumsfeld mentioned on September 10, 2001. Via: CNN:
