Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
The International
March 5th, 2009The International – Official Site Via: Wikipedia: Plot Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks, the International Bank of Business and Credit. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of […]
Fed Refuses to Release Bank Lending Data, Insists on Secrecy, Says it Isn’t Subject to FOIA Law
March 5th, 2009HA. Bloomberg is trying to apply FOIA to the Federal Reserve. Well, to those of you who still believe that the Fed is part of the U.S. Government, pay close attention: The Board of Governors contends that it’s separate from its member banks, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which runs the lending […]
Russian General Says U.S. May Have Planned Satellite Collision
March 4th, 2009Via: RIA Novosti: A collision between U.S. and Russian satellites in early February may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident, a Russian military expert has said. According to official reports, one of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian […]
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 […]
