Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE
May 18th, 2008In my case, there’s no way the programs I want to talk to Congress about should be public ever, unless maybe in 200 years they want to declassify them. You should never learn about it; no one at the Times should ever learn about these things. —Russell Tice, Former NSA SIGINT Officer I’m going to […]
U.S.-Trained Forces Reportedly Helping Mexican Cartels
May 15th, 2008Imagine my shock. Via: Houston Chronicle: As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday. The renegade members of Mexico’s elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, […]
Drug Pilot, Election Machine Executive Killed on CIA Plane
May 9th, 2008Via: Mad Cow Productions: One week after the crash outside Caracas, Venezuela of a twin-engine Piper Navajo (N6463L), an air of intrigue surrounds almost everything about the flight, including the plane’s ownership, passengers, and pilot. Woven into one small story about a plane crash in Venezuela that killed seven people are visible threads from two […]
U.S. Marines Ignore Opium to Not Upset Afghan Locals
May 8th, 2008Britain in Secret Talks with the Taliban Afghanistan: Planned British Covert Operation Included Training in “Farming and Irrigation Techniques” for Taliban Fighters Narco Aggression: Russia Accuses the U.S. Military of Involvement in Drug Trafficking Out of Afghanistan NATO Forces Supplied Food, Water and Arms to Taliban Forces in Southern Afghanistan Via: AP: The Marines of […]
Roland Carnaby
May 4th, 2008This post is in a raw, data dump format right now. Everywhere that I’ve seen this story being discussed on the Internet, there are a lot of anonymous comments saying that Roland Carnaby made it all up; that he just imagined that he was in the CIA, Photoshopped himself into a picture of the lobby […]
‘Retired’ Goldman Sachs Executive to Head Trading for Merrill Lynch
April 28th, 2008What we have here isn’t some, “unseen hand of the market.” It’s more like a bunch of tentacles. Henry Paulson is the United States Treasury Secretary. He’s also a former CEO of Goldman Sachs. Joshua Bolten is the current White House Chief of Staff. He served as Goldman’s executive director for legal and government affairs […]
Wachovia Facing Drug Money Laundering Investigation
April 28th, 2008Assisting upstarts with taking their ill gotten gains out? Oh no no no. That’s a no no. Via: TheStreet: Wachovia is being investigated by federal prosecutors as part of a larger probe of alleged laundering of drug money, according to a published media report. The report, in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, cited people familiar with […]
U.S. Department of Justice: International Criminals Launder Billions of Dollars Through U.S. Financial Institutions, and Invest Profits in Publicly Traded Companies
April 25th, 2008I had always assumed the entire business of the markets to be a massive criminal enterprise that allowed public participation simply because it made a few people extremely wealthy… Assume maximum criminal behavior… —Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets I told you that trying to trade this crap, as a retailer, is the equivalent […]
Al-CIAda No. 2 Says 9/11 Theory Propagated by Iran
April 23rd, 2008HAHA! I really need to add a Humor category. Via: AP: Osama bin Laden’s chief deputy in an audiotape Tuesday accused Shiite Iran of trying to discredit the Sunni al-Qaida terror network by spreading the conspiracy theory that Israel was behind the Sept. 11 attacks. The comments reflected al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri’s increasing […]
Activist Under FBI Investigation Found Dead in Lake, Hands and Legs Bound, Eyes Covered with Duct Tape; Police Leaning Toward Suicide Ruling
April 22nd, 2008Via: American Statesman: Austin police said Thursday that they are leaning toward a ruling of suicide in the death of a middle school teacher and activist whose body was found Wednesday in Lady Bird Lake with his hands and legs bound and tape over his eyes. Police identified Riad Hamad, 55, at a news conference […]
