Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
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 […]
CIA Threatened to Kill Detainee Families
August 25th, 2009Until the early 1980s, the U.S. military ran an intelligence training program in Latin America and elsewhere using manuals that taught foreign officers to offer bounties for captured or killed insurgents, spy on nonviolent political opponents, kidnap rebels’ family members and blackmail unwanted informants, according to recently declassified Army and Defense Department documents. The manuals, […]
Goldman Sachs “Trading Huddles”
August 25th, 2009I had always assumed the entire business of the markets to be a massive criminal enterprise that allowed public participation simply because it made a few people extremely wealthy. —Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets Via: Wall Street Journal: Securities regulators are examining weekly meetings at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in which research analysts […]
Fed Must Release Reports on Emergency Bank Loans, Judge Says
August 25th, 2009In other news, Obama to Nominate Bernanke for Second Term as Fed Chief. Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve must make records about emergency lending to financial institutions public within five days because it failed to convince a judge the documents should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta […]
Massachusetts: $1,000 Fine Per Day, 30 Days Prison for Refusing to Obey State Officials During Swine Flu “Emergency”
August 24th, 2009Legislation: AN ACT RELATIVE TO PANDEMIC AND DISASTER PREPARATION AND RESPONSE IN THE COMMONWEALTH
Madoff Dying of Cancer?
August 24th, 2009Update: Bureau of Prisons Denies Madoff Has Cancer Via: Reuters: Bernard Madoff, convicted of swindling $65 billion through the biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported on Monday, citing unnamed prison sources. Madoff, 71, who since June has been serving a 150-year sentence […]
