Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Journalist Flees Russia Over Arctic Sea Story
September 4th, 2009Via: BBC: A journalist has fled Russia after suggesting the Arctic Sea cargo ship that was apparently hijacked in July may have been carrying illegal weapons. Mikhail Voitenko said he had been told to leave Moscow or face arrest. The editor of Sovfracht, an online maritime journal, fled on Wednesday, saying he may not be […]
USAID Probes the Possibility That Contractors Give a Cut to the Taliban
September 3rd, 2009Via: Global Post: The United States Agency for International Development has opened an investigation into allegations that its funds for road and bridge construction in Afghanistan are ending up in the hands of the Taliban, through a protection racket for contractors. And House Foreign Affairs Committee member, Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) vowed to hold hearings […]
‘Blood Oath’ Sealed Stanford Deal, Court Is Told
August 31st, 2009Via: New York Times: R. Allen Stanford’s relationship with the chief regulator of his Antigua bank was closer than most. At a meeting in 2003, they became blood brothers, cutting their wrists and mixing their blood in a “brotherhood ceremony” that Mr. Stanford’s chief financial officer said promoted an elaborate scheme to hide a multibillion-dollar […]
What Every American Should be Made to Learn About the IG Torture Report
August 31st, 2009Via: Salon: The fact that we are not really bothered any more by taking helpless detainees in our custody and (a) threatening to blow their brains out, torture them with drills, rape their mothers, and murder their children; (b) choking them until they pass out; (c) pouring water down their throats to drown them; (d) […]
FBI Investigating Laptops Sent to U.S. Governors
August 31st, 2009Via: Computer World: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to figure out who is sending laptop computers to state governors across the U.S., including West Virginia Governor Joe Mahchin and Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal. Some state officials are worried that they may contain malicious software. According to sources familiar with the investigation, other […]
Cheney Says Cooperation with CIA Probe “Will Depend”
August 31st, 2009Via: Reuters: Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he might refuse to speak with a prosecutor investigating suspected CIA prisoner abuses, a probe he branded as political and bad for national security. Cheney has been one of the fiercest critics of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision last week to name a new special prosecutor […]
Goldman Subpoenaed on Huddles
August 27th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: William Galvin, Massachusetts’s chief financial regulator, has subpoenaed Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc., demanding information on the firm’s weekly trading huddles between its research analysts and traders. Mr. Galvin, the Massachusetts secretary of the commonwealth, said he is concerned that the huddles, in which Goldman’s research staff give verbal […]
Rothschild Connection to Megrahi Release
August 27th, 2009Via: BBC: In recent years two British prime ministers, a Russian oligarch, the scion of a European banking dynasty, a Prince of the Realm, a leader of Big Oil and our very own “Prince of Darkness” (aka Business Secretary Peter Mandelson) have all had walk-on parts, if not more, in events that preceded the release […]
Fed Whining About Having to Release Records of Which Firms Received “Emergency Loans”
August 27th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve argued yesterday that identifying the financial institutions that benefited from its emergency loans would harm the companies and render the central bank’s planned appeal of a court ruling moot. The Fed’s board of governors asked Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska to delay enforcement of her Aug. 24 decision […]
Australia: Was a Covert Operative Planted in a Group of Five Melbourne Men Charged with Terrorism Offences?
August 26th, 2009Via: The Age: THE Australian Federal Police has come under pressure to reveal whether a covert operative was planted in a group of five Melbourne men charged with terrorism offences. The charges relate to an alleged plot to attack the Holsworthy Army Base in NSW. It was revealed yesterday that one of the men, Saney […]
