Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
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:
Secret Grand Jury Looking Into Atrocities at Abu Ghraib
June 14th, 2011Unless Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld wind up behind bars, it’s just another distraction. Come to think of it, even if they were thrown in prison, the other members of the Project for a New American Century would still be free to kill again. Via: Time: It has been nearly a decade since Manadel al-Jamadi, an […]
Blackwater Hires Former AIG Regulatory Compliance Chief
June 13th, 2011I couldn’t make it up if I tried. Via: Wired: Nothing says, “We’re through with scandal!” quite like hiring a former executive from one of the country’s leading economic bloodsuckers. Blackwater — sorry, Xe Services — really wants to turn the PR page from the bad old days of Nisour Square, when the infamous private […]
NSA Style Guide
June 13th, 2011Via: Government Attic: National Security Agency (NSA) SIGINT Reporter’s Style and Usage Manual, 2010 – [13-Jun-2011] NSA SIGINT Style Manual 2010
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
June 13th, 2011Mmm hmm. See: The American Culture Bomb: Satire from the Onion and a Long Forgotten U.S. Army War College Essay There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and […]
U.S. Special Ops Troops Deployed in Mexico, Leaked Briefing Confirms
June 11th, 2011Via: Narcosphere: A Pentagon document has come to light that confirms the U.S. has put special operations troops on the ground in Mexico as the drug war there continues to escalate, notching some 40,000 murders since late 2006. The document is a Department of Defense briefing presented in mid-May 2009 in Washington, D.C., to a […]
The New, NEW Transparency: NSA Declassifies 200 Year-Old Book
June 10th, 2011Via: Wired: A cryptology instruction book… 202 years old. A photograph of the U.S. Army’s cypher bureau… from 1919. A breakdown of Russian electoral districts… circa 1948. Schematics for a magnetic tape memory system… nearly half a century old. These are just some of the items that, had you seen them, would have irreparably damaged […]
Drake Strikes Plea Bargain
June 10th, 2011Related: The Secret Sharer Via: AP: A federal judge in Baltimore dismissed Espionage Act charges against a former official with the National Security Agency accused of leaking classified documents, accepting his guilty plea to a single misdemeanor. Thomas Drake’s plea deal pleased civil-liberties advocates but is a setback for the Obama administration’s effort to crack […]
