Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Obama Regime Continues to Prevent Illegal Wiretapping Case from Going Forward
March 3rd, 2009Illegal wiretaps we can believe in. Via: Ars: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the government’s plea to stay a January ruling allowing an Islamic charity that alleges it was subject to illicit warrantless wiretapping to proceed with its lawsuit. But Obama administration attorneys have signaled that they plan to continue fighting tooth […]
CIA Destroyed 92 Interrogation Tapes, Probe Says
March 3rd, 2009Duh. Something to cleanse your news-not-news palette with this morning. Via: Washington Post: The CIA got rid of 92 videotapes depicting the harsh interrogations and confinement of “high value” al-Qaeda suspects, government lawyers disclosed yesterday, as a long-running criminal probe of the tapes’ destruction inched toward a conclusion that is not expected to result in […]
Senate Panel to Examine CIA Detainee Handling
February 27th, 2009Ahh yes, from the people who fed you box cutters and Building 7: The Authoritative Account of Bush’s Atrocities… Give me a f*cking break already. Via: Washington Post: The Senate intelligence committee is planning an unprecedented review of the CIA’s handling of captured terrorist suspects, drawing back the curtain for the first time on the […]
Ex-Stanford Employee Warned Regulators About Fraud
February 27th, 2009Via: Reuters: A former Stanford Group Company employee told broker-dealer watchdogs in 2003 that the financial services firm was engaged in fraud, about five years before U.S. securities regulators charged the firm’s chairman, Allen Stanford, with an $8 billion fraud. Leyla Basagoitia, who was fired from Stanford Group Company in 2002, told a broker-dealer arbitration […]
Dusty Foggo Mostly Beats the Wrap
February 26th, 2009Via: Propublica: Paramilitary agents for the CIA’s super-secret Special Activities Division, or SAD, perform raids, ambushes, abductions and other difficult chores overseas, including infiltrating countries to “light up” targets from the ground for air-to-ground missile strikes. This week the government acknowledged for the first time that some of SAD’s sensitive air operations were swept up […]
CIA Signals Continuity With Bush Era
February 26th, 2009Change. Via: Wall Street Journal: The Central Intelligence Agency’s new director outlined spy policies Wednesday, including an aggressive campaign in Pakistan, that underscored considerable continuity with the Bush administration. CIA Director Leon Panetta, in his first meeting with reporters, said the agency will continue to carry out drone attacks on militants in Pakistan. He also […]
The Anti-Bono: Dambisa Moyo and “Dead Aid”
February 25th, 2009Via: New York Times: Q: As a native of Zambia with advanced degrees in public policy and economics from Harvard and Oxford, you are about to publish an attack on Western aid to Africa and its recent glamorization by celebrities. “Dead Aid,” as your book is called, is particularly hard on rock stars. Have you […]
U.S. Department of Energy Cannot Account for Nuclear Materials at 15 Locations
February 25th, 2009Remember the one about the thousands of missing tritium based Exit signs? Via: Government Executive: A number of institutions with licenses to hold nuclear material reported to the Energy Department in 2004 that the amount of material they held was less than agency records indicated. But rather than investigating the discrepancies, Energy officials wrote off […]
Stanford Had Links to a Fund Run by Bidens
February 25th, 2009HAHA Do you get it yet? Via: Reuters: A fund of hedge funds run by two members of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s family was marketed exclusively by firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion (5.5 billion pound) fraud, the Wall Street Journal said. The $50 million fund […]
Diebold ‘Offices’ Listed in Yellow Pages Are Mostly Wal-Marts
February 25th, 2009Always Low Prices, Now with Even More Diebold! Via: RawStory: Across the country, curious bloggers are calling up their local Diebold offices, and no one is answering. Utah is among the number of states that now use a partial or fully electronic election system, and Premier Election Solutions, a subsidiary of Diebold, is the company […]
