Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Tom Donilon: Obama’s New National Security Adviser and Fannie Mae Fraud
October 10th, 2010Via: Politico: To many in the foreign policy community, Tom Donilon’s selection Friday as national security adviser to President Barack Obama was a deserving reward for a consummate professional, a corporate lawyer who worked his way up through the foreign policy ranks over the years and is credited with holding the National Security Council together […]
Nato Contractors Attacking Own Vehicles in Pakistan
October 9th, 2010Via: BBC: Nato supply convoys travelling through Pakistan to Afghanistan have regularly come under attack in the past, but following Pakistan’s decision to block their route through the Khyber Pass, they now face an even bigger security threat. Hundreds of tankers and trucks have been left stranded on highways and depots across Pakistan, with little […]
9/11: Firemen Explosion Testimony
October 7th, 2010The video below is from the NIST data dump that the International Center for 9/11 Studies obtained through FOIA. The files are now available as a torrent. (Since I’m in New Zealand, there’s no way for me to download an 86GB torrent, but most of you aren’t dealing with small-remote-island Internet issues like me.) There […]
U.S. Arrests 130 Puerto Ricans, Including 90 Police Officers, on Charges Related to Drug Trafficking
October 7th, 2010Clear out the upstarts. Eliminate the competition. Keep prices high. Via: AP: Hundreds of FBI agents flew into Puerto Rico to round up dozens of police officers accused of aiding drug traffickers Wednesday — one of the darkest days yet for a force tarnished by recent allegations of brutality, discrimination and incompetence. In pre-dawn raids, […]
Killing Each Taliban Soldier Costs $50 Million?
October 6th, 2010There 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 […]
James Corbett: The Truth About Terrorism
October 5th, 2010Research Credit: mja
Mystery Mercenary Group Is Blackwater’s 34th Front Company
October 4th, 2010Update: Ackerman Screwed Up on the House The link below now states: If International Development Solutions, a mysterious firm partially owned by Blackwater, has its own independent office, it’s hard to find. A business records search co-locates one of the jackpot winners of a State Department contract worth up to $10 million with Kaseman LLC, […]
One Program to Watch Them All: DARPA’s INSIGHT
October 4th, 2010Yet again, it’s the Information Awareness Office by another name. Via: Wired: No surprise that Darpa, the military’s blue-sky research arm, is the agency behind the lofty five-year program, called Insight. The agency’s goal is to replace “largely manual exploitation and…chat-based operator interactions” with a system that mines different inputs, including drone footage and on-the-ground […]
Iran Arrests ‘Nuclear Spies,’ Intelligence Chief Says
October 4th, 2010Via: CNN: Iran arrested a number of “nuclear spies,” its intelligence minister said, in the wake of widespread reports of a sophisticated new computer virus that may have been aimed at Iran. Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi made the announcement Saturday, without giving any details, Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency reported. Iran is widely thought to […]
Despite Clinton Pledge, State Department to Pay Out Billions More to Mercenaries
September 30th, 2010Via: Wired: Get ready to meet America’s new mercenaries. They could be the same as the old ones. A new multibillion-dollar private security contract to protect U.S. diplomats is “about to drop” as early as this week, say two State Department sources, who requested anonymity because the contract is not yet finalized and they are […]
