Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Feds Bust Dozens in New Jersey Corruption Scandal; Mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus in Custody; “High-Volume International Money-Laundering Conspiracy”
July 23rd, 2009Organs. Via: NBC New York: The mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus were among scores of people arrested in early morning raids across New Jersey this morning as federal officials unveiled a long-ranging probe into public corruption and international money laundering, officials said. FBI and IRS rounded up scores of elected officials and several rabbis across […]
NSA Using Cloud Model for Intelligence Sharing; Open Source Software; Commodity Hardware
July 22nd, 2009Whooooo weeeee, a lot of bozos are going to draw salary for years off of this boondoggle. (Assuming the whole damn show doesn’t go up in flames before then.) Via: Information Week: The National Security Agency is taking a cloud computing approach in developing a new collaborative intelligence gathering system that will link disparate intelligence […]
Allegations: U.S. Personnel Were Present During the Massacre
July 22nd, 2009Via: Salon: It has long been known that soon after the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, hundreds or thousands of Taliban prisoners who had surrendered in the city of Kunduz were herded into metal containers and suffocated or shot, allegedly under orders from an Afghan warlord. As Newsweek reported in August 2002, the bodies […]
Was British Weapons Expert Dr. David Kelly a Target of “Executive Assassination Ring”?
July 21st, 2009This is probably the most absurd “suicide” on the roster of absurd “suicides”. I just posted a tiny snippet from this piece. It’s worth clicking through to read the whole thing. Via: Global Research: Revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency launched a world-wide assassination program, and then concealed its existence from the U.S. Congress and […]
U.N. Will Not to Name Culprits in Bhutto Assassination
July 20th, 2009Via: Reuters: The U.N. team conducting an inquiry into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will not seek to name culprits, the commission’s head said Friday, lowering expectations from the outset. The three-member team arrived in Pakistan Thursday for its first visit as part of a probe into the circumstances surrounding the […]
Specialized Interrogation Unit: Now With More Change We Can Believe In
July 19th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration is considering overhauling the way terror suspects are interrogated by creating a small team of professionals drawn from across the government, according to people familiar with a proposal that will be submitted to the White House. The new unit, comprising members of spy services and law-enforcement agencies, would […]
Public Menace Exxon Sabotaged Oil Wells
July 17th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. oil company, may be fined more than $1 billion for “malicious” sabotage of wells to prevent other producers from tapping fields it no longer wanted, the Texas General Land Office said. Jerry Patterson, commissioner of the land office that oversees oil leases that help fund Texas schools, […]
Another Russian Human Rights Activist Murdered
July 15th, 2009Via: BBC: A prominent Russian human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, has been found dead in the North Caucasus. She was bundled into a van and abducted as she left her home in Chechnya on Wednesday morning, a colleague said. Her body was found in Ingushetia. The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed “outrage” at the murder, […]
Why the NSA-Twitter Rumor Is Dumb
July 15th, 2009The NSA wouldn’t have to ask Twitter for permission to install a dump feed because NSA already has it. It’s very safe to assume that NSA is already splitting everything off from NTT/Verio, Twitter’s hosting provider. In other words, the NSA had the capability in place long before Twitter was even a glimmer. There’s no […]
Kevin R. Ryan: Demolition Access to the WTC Towers
July 12th, 2009This is an interesting read about the companies the occupied the floors where the planes impacted the towers. Via: Scoop: Who could have placed explosives in the World Trade Center towers? To answer that question, we should first consider who had access to the buildings, specifically the areas of the buildings that would be relevant […]
