Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Doctors Will Launch Court Fight if Dr. David Kelly Inquest Demand Turned Down
June 7th, 2011Apologies for the Daily Mail link. Via: Daily Mail: A group of doctors is preparing to mount a legal challenge if the Attorney General this week refuses an inquest into the death of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly. Dominic Grieve, who has spent nine months considering the case for a new inquiry, is expected to […]
The Gitmo No One Talks About
June 7th, 2011Via: Salon: President Obama has presided over a threefold increase in the number of detainees being held at the controversial military detention center at Bagram Air Base, the Afghan cousin of the notorious prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. It’s the latest piece of news that almost certainly would be getting more […]
The Secret History of Boeing’s Killer Drone
June 7th, 2011Via: Wired: When the pilotless, wing-shaped warplane lifted off a runway at California’s Edwards Air Force Base for the first time on the morning of April 27, it was like the resurrection of the dead. The Boeing Phantom Ray — one of the most advanced drones ever built — came close to never flying at […]
Hacker Groups Thoroughly Infiltrated by Government
June 6th, 2011Via: Guardian: The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. Cyber policing units have had such success […]
Children in Care of Irish Government Ended Up Working in Brothels
June 5th, 2011Via: Irish Independent: Children have been going missing from State care and ending up working as sex slaves in brothels for at least three years, leaked US embassy cables reveal. Health Service Executive (HSE) officials made the shocking admission during a private briefing of diplomats from the American Embassy in Dublin. Details of the disclosure […]
Nickname for CIA’s Bin Laden Team: ‘The Manson Family’
June 3rd, 2011Via: Telegraph: Terrorist hunter Michael Scheuer tells Duncan Gardham and Iain Hollingshead how he was repeatedly ordered not to stop the al-Qaeda chief. There are not many sane people who can say with confidence that, had a president of America only listened to them, they could have saved $1.3 trillion and many hundreds of thousands […]
Major Israeli Shipping Firm Accused by Washington of Doing Illicit Business with Iran
June 3rd, 2011Update: And now: Scandal-Hit Israeli Billionaire Sami Ofer Found Dead Via: BBC: Sami Ofer, an Israeli billionaire at the centre of a scandal over business contacts with Iran, has died at his home in Tel Aviv. Israeli media reported the 89-year-old had passed away after a long illness. The US last month imposed sanctions on […]
‘A Trader, an F.B.I. Witness, and Then a Suicide’
June 3rd, 2011Suuuuure. Via: New York Times: In a Manhattan courtroom last week, federal prosecutors played for a jury a secretly recorded telephone conversation between two Wall Street traders exchanging stock tips. Two days later, one of those traders, Ephraim G. Karpel, hanged himself in his Fifth Avenue office, according to a law enforcement official. Mr. Karpel […]
‘Homeland-Security Business Still Booming Ten Years Later’
June 2nd, 2011Via: CNBC: A decade after the 9/11 terror attacks, homeland security is still a growth business. The niche—that includes James Bond-like tools such as infrared cameras, explosive detectors and body scanners—is expected to grow 12 percent annually through 2013, according to Morgan Keegan. “Homeland security is reactive,” says Tim Quillen, a senior equity analyst at […]
Libya Lost $1.3 Billion on Options Trades Done with Goldman Sachs
May 31st, 2011But first, remember this one? The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs: The point to bear in mind, as Mr. Sloan brilliantly makes clear, is that as Goldman was peddling C.M.O.’s, it was also shorting the junk on a titanic scale through index sales — showing, at least to me, how horrible a […]
