Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Adrian Lamo Is a “Volunteer” for Project Vigilant, a Private Internet Surveillance Company Closely Linked to U.S. Intelligence
August 2nd, 2010Via: Forbes: A semi-secret government contractor that calls itself Project Vigilant surfaced at the Defcon security conference Sunday with a series of revelations: that it monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers, hands much of that information to federal agencies, and encouraged one of its “volunteers”, researcher Adrian Lamo, to inform the federal […]
Terrorism Case Baffles Remote Alaska Town
August 1st, 2010My guess is that the following line is the most useful piece of information in the article: …this has the air of a poorly written movie. You visited some site and then you were found with a piece of paper that contained some words. Ready to plea bargain? When it’s time for a law enforcement […]
Essays on Conspiracies by Julian Assange
August 1st, 2010There’s very little here; a vague framework for reducing “conspiratorial power” based on connected graphs. This seems like an introduction to a longer essay. Via: Cryptome: CRYPTOME 31 July 2010 These essays on conspiracies by Julian Assange (me@iq.org) were retrieved today from his website iq.org. The first from the currently active site, dated Novermber 10, […]
“Extreme and Unlawful” Bush-Era Policies Becoming the “New Normal” Under Obama
July 30th, 2010Via: ACLU: Indeed, on a range of issues including accountability for torture, detention of terrorism suspects, and use of lethal force against civilians, there is a very real danger that the Obama administration will enshrine permanently within the law policies and practices that were widely considered extreme and unlawful during the Bush administration. There is […]
Judge Orders Life Sentence for Florida Keys Drug Smuggler — Who Worked for the U.S. State Department?
July 29th, 2010Via: Key News: An admitted drug smuggler who carried millions of dollars in hash oil and marijuana in the keels of sailboats through the Florida Keys will spend the rest of his life in prison, a federal judge ruled Monday. The life sentence of Juergen Heinz Williams, also known as Juergen Werthmann, was the last […]
CIA and Google Fund Same Web Surveillance Startup
July 29th, 2010Via: Wired: The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships […]
WikiLeaks Founder, “Constantly Annoyed that People Are Distracted by False Conspiracies Such as 9/11”
July 26th, 2010People often ask me if I think this source is disinfo or if that source is disinfo… My response is always: TREAT EVERY SOURCE AS DISINFO. You’ll avoid disappointment when the thing starts serving up rat poison—which, unfortunately, happens a lot. I haven’t shared this before, but in early 2008, someone from WikiLeaks wrote to […]
WikiLeaks: Afghanistan War Logs; Massive Leak, Over 90,000 Files
July 26th, 2010More Interesting Reading: TF 373 and OGA TF 373 refers to Task Force 373, which is a U.S. death squad. OGA is Other Government Agency. According to Salon, “In military lingo, OGA stands for ‘other government agency’ and denotes clandestine operations conducted independent of the military chain of command.” —End Update— Update: Searching for Heroin […]
Pentagon Workers Tied to Child Porn
July 24th, 2010Via: Boston Globe: Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material, according to investigative reports. The investigations have included employees of the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance […]
Joint Special Operations University: Blogs and Military Information Strategy
July 21st, 2010Via: U.S. Special Operations Command / Hosted at Cryptome (PDF): In this regard, information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence already within the target nation, group, or community to pass the U.S. message. In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of […]
