Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
AT&T Workers Sue for $1 Billion in Overtime Pay
December 17th, 2009Mark Klein’s, Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine…And Fighting It, not only lays out the most detailed account (in the public domain) of how the NSA conducts mass communications intercepts, it also covers the grim corporate culture at AT&T. If you want to constantly think that you’re about to get laid off, AT&T is the […]
U.S. Predator Drones Use Unencrypted Communications Links in Theater?
December 17th, 2009I’ve seen some stupid shit in my day, but this one takes the cake… Unless… It’s by design and intended to help the insurgents. Or, it might be that this is part of a military deception operation where a video feed is broadcast in the clear for PSYOP or other purposes to insurgents: Military deception […]
Drug Money Saved Banks During Global Drisis, Claims UN Advisor
December 14th, 2009Via: Guardian: Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were […]
Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret Raids by the CIA
December 11th, 2009Via: New York Times: Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials. The raids against suspects occurred on an […]
U.S. Air Force Confirms ‘Beast of Kandahar’ Drone
December 9th, 2009Via: AFP: The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the “Beast of Kandahar,” a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed “to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to […]
Pilot for 9/11 Flight School Considered Grave Threat to National Security
December 3rd, 2009Via: Mad Cow Productions: A U.S. Customs Agent on duty when controversial drug pilot and “soldier of fortune” Michael Brassington attempted to re-enter the US through Fort Lauderdale International Airport in April of 2004 was instructed by a Supervisor at Immigrations & Customs Enforcement (ICE) to treat Brassington—a long-time employee and business associate of Wallace […]
Vanity Fair on Blackwater’s Erik Prince
December 3rd, 2009Blackwater is a CIA cutout that got so big that it just happened to become a household name. —Feds Investigating Blackwater USA for Selling Weapons to Iraqi Insurgency We get into the Coincidence? category because the article just happens to be written by a “former” CIA attorney. Via: Vanity Fair: The truth about Prince may […]
Israeli Police Arrest Mossad Spy on “Training Exercise” After He Placed “Fake Bomb” Under Car
December 2nd, 2009Mmm hmm. Israel better mobilize the brave Ziofascist Twitbook forces to clear this one up. Via: BBC: A trainee spy for Israel’s secret service agency Mossad was arrested by Tel Aviv police while taking part in a training operation, media reports say. The young trainee was spotted by a female passer-by as he planted a […]
State of Texas Saving Newborn DNA Samples
December 2nd, 2009Via: KXAN: When Andrea Beleno was expecting her first child, she never dreamed his blood would become the focus of a federal lawsuit. Neither did the other families who are suing the State of Texas to protect the medical privacy of their children. Each year, more than 400,000 babies are born in Texas. State law […]
Sprint Nextel Geotracking Info Given to Law Enforcement Eight Million Times from September 2008 and October 2009
December 1st, 2009My running hypothesis is that MAINCORE targets are geotracked on a persistent basis. Via: Slight Paranoia: Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of […]
