Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Criminal Investigation Into CIA Treatment of Detainees Expected
August 9th, 2009Unless Cheney and Bush are prosecuted, this is just another bullshit distraction. Via: Los Angeles Times: U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said. A senior Justice Department official said […]
Barracks and Burger King: U.S. Builds a Supersized Base in Afghanistan
August 9th, 2009Via: Politics Today: Anyone who thinks the Afghanistan troop “surge” is a temporary, one-time deal should watch the construction here of a vast new $17 million barracks building. It’s not temporary. It’s three stories of concrete. Eight years after American forces scattered the Taliban and effectively conquered Afghanistan, the United States is embarked on a […]
Google Pulls Sibel Edmonds’ Access to Her Blog
August 9th, 2009I don’t know what it’s going to take to make people understand that Google (and its associated brands, Blogger, YouTube, Google Video, Gmail) are NOT to be trusted for communicating controversial information. The fact that dissidents don’t understand this basic information is just more evidence of how screwed we are. Via: Justacitizen: My Blog Site […]
Blackwater Mercenaries Had Child Prostitutes on Base in Iraq
August 8th, 2009Video Backup: RawStory Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Subpoenaed, Set to ‘Break’ Gag Order Unless DoJ Intercedes
August 7th, 2009Via: Brad Blog: Unless the Dept. of Justice re-invokes their twice-invoked “state secrets privilege” claim in order to once again gag former FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, her attorneys have notified the department by hand-delivered, sworn letter of declaration [PDF] this week, that she intends to give a deposition, open to the media [Updated: see bottom […]
BUSTED: FED SECRETLY MONETIZING DEBT; COLLUDING WITH DEALERS
August 7th, 2009Via: Chris Martenson: Just last week, when the auction results were announced it was trumpeted to great fanfare that there was “more than sufficient” bid-to-cover, “strong demand” and all the rest. And now it turns out that 47% (!) of the bonds that were taken by the primary dealers in that auction have been quietly […]
Texas: NSA’s New Data-Mining Facility in San Antonio
August 6th, 2009Can you hear me now? Via: Current: Surrounded by barbwire fencing, the anonymous yet massive building on West Military Drive near San Antonio’s Loop 410 freeway looms mysteriously with no identifying signs of any kind. Surveillance is tight, with security cameras surrounding the under-construction building. Readers are advised not to take any photos unless you […]
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
August 5th, 2009Via: The Nation: A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated […]
Sibel Edmonds: Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11
August 1st, 2009Via: Brad Blog: “I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban – those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on […]
Afghanistan: U.S. Surgeons Drafted in as British Medics Exhausted by Casualty Surge
July 31st, 2009Well, nobody said that a turf war over opium was going to be a walk in the park. Via: Times Online: The surge in British casualties in Afghanistan has left military surgeons so exhausted that a US surgical team has been drafted in to help. The British doctors have also been overwhelmed with casualties from […]
