Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
CIA Station Chief in Algeria Accused of Rapes
January 29th, 2009The piece paints Andrew Warren as a pure rogue, but my guess is that he was involved with honey pot operations at some point. These operations are designed to compromise targeted individuals from foreign governments in order to turn them into intelligence assets. This is what the CIA (and every other intelligence agency) does every […]
UN Crime Chief Says Drug Money Flowed Into Banks
January 27th, 2009Where has all the opium related money been going since the War on Terror went to Afghanistan? Is that money about to buy U.S. Treasuries in heretofore unthinkable quantities? —Who Is Going to Lend the U.S. $2 Trillion? I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. Via: Reuters: The United Nations’ crime and drug watchdog has […]
Afghanistan’s ‘Guantanamo’ Poses New Prison Problem for Barack Obama
January 24th, 2009One countertrend crank doesn’t mean a reversal of the larger trend. —Obama Orders Closure of CIA’s Secret Prisons Mmm hmm. Via: Telegraph: As Guantanamo Bay prepares to close, President Barack Obama will have to deal with a new problem with suspected terrorist detainees, this time at Bagram in Afghanistan. Every Monday, at a Red Cross […]
Tice: Wiretaps Were Combined with Credit Card Records of U.S. Citizens
January 24th, 2009See MAIN CORE: The U.S. Government has, almost certainly, established a database and tracking system for something like eight million Americans who have been designated as threats to national security. The system is called MAIN CORE and it is being run under the auspices of highly classified Continuity of Government (COG) operations. MAIN CORE uses […]
Mystery Prison Buses in the Desert
January 23rd, 2009Maybe Cryptogon readers in Arizona know more about this. Via: Global Research: On a recent visit to Tucson, Arizona, where I was invited to give a presentation on monetary reform, I was disturbed by a story of strange goings on in the desert. A little over a year ago, it seems, a new industrial facility […]
Who Is Going to Lend the U.S. $2 Trillion?
January 23rd, 2009Guys, I dunno. There are far more questions than answers here. On the one hand, you might think, “Who would be stupid enough to lend the U.S. any more money?” But, the answer might be, “The countries that have already strapped themselves to the mast of the United States.” The U.S. appears to be running […]
Obama Orders Closure of CIA’s Secret Prisons
January 23rd, 2009When I read Obama’s executive order to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, I just laughed the thing off as window dressing on a network of an unknown number of secret CIA prisons and torture facilities. In short, I felt that it was so ridiculous that I didn’t even bother mentioning it. Now, however, we […]
Whistleblower: NSA Spied on Everyone, Targeted Journalists
January 22nd, 2009Via: Rawstory: Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists. “The […]
Bernard Madoff, the Mafia, and Naked Short Selling
January 21st, 2009“One wrong word and he’s dead, his family is dead, etc. He knows it. He’s sticking to a script. …People involved with this, at the levels we don’t even know about yet, mainly, the management of day-to-day operations, are probably already dead.” —The Desperate Final Hours of the World’s Biggest Ever Financial Fraud “At some […]
Obama to Defend Telco Spy Immunity
January 20th, 2009Via: Wired: The incoming Obama administration will vigorously defend congressional legislation immunizing U.S. telecommunication companies from lawsuits about their participation in the Bush administration’s domestic spy program. That was the assessment Thursday by Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for attorney general, who made the statement during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. […]
