Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
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 […]
SEC Probed Stanford Companies; Red Flags Abounded
February 23rd, 2009Via: AP: For years, there were red flags — so many they could have massed into a crimson blanket. As with the Bernard Madoff case, the scandal surrounding billionaire R. Allen Stanford now seems clear and obvious in hindsight. Yet Stanford managed to run his alleged scheme even while the Securities and Exchange Commission and […]
Secret U.S. Unit Trains Commandos in Pakistan
February 23rd, 2009Same as it ever was. Via: IHT: More than 70 United States military advisers and technical specialists are secretly working in Pakistan to help its armed forces battle Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the country’s lawless tribal areas, American military officials said. The Americans are mostly Army Special Forces soldiers who are training Pakistani […]
Texas Securities Regulators Found Evidence of Potential Money Laundering Involving Stanford Ten Years Ago
February 21st, 2009The Texas authorities called in the FBI and SEC… which did nothing. What you have here is a long running U.S. Intelligence operation that became so large and sloppy that it finally blew up. Oh yeah, I wonder what went on in the Bogota, Colombia office… Via: Houston Chronicle: The SEC only has the authority […]
Kucinich on Stanford Group Fraud: SEC Told to “Stand Down” by Unknown Federal Agency in 2006
February 21st, 2009Dennis Kucinich is trying to determine which federal agency told the SEC to stand down with regard to Allen Stanford in 2006. Which agency? Well, last Tuesday (17 February 2009), Allen Stanford was unable to charter a private jet to take him from Houston to Antigua. Then, of all the places he could have gone, […]
Robert Allen Stanford, Under Investigation for Laundering Drug Money, Was a Major Political Donor
February 20th, 2009You might need to take an extra hit of Hopenosis after reading this one. Via: Christian Science Monitor: Until 2000, Robert Allen Stanford had no record of giving money to anyone in Washington. But then the Clinton administration introduced legislation to crack down on international money laundering. Suddenly Mr. Stanford, whose company ran a bank […]
Cousin of 9/11 “Hijacker” Worked for Mossad Since 1983
February 20th, 2009Via: New York Times: For 25 years, Ali al-Jarrah managed to live on both sides of the bitterest divide running through this region. To friends and neighbors, he was an earnest supporter of the Palestinian cause, an affable, white-haired family man who worked as an administrator at a nearby school. To Israel, he appears to […]
FBI Finds Allen Stanford in Virginia
February 20th, 2009Not Langley, Virginia. The FBI didn’t arrest him. Via: Reuters: Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, accused of an $8 billion fraud that spooked investors around the world, was found in Virginia on Thursday and FBI agents served him with a complaint from U.S. regulators. FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted […]
