Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer: Client-9
March 11th, 2008UPDATE #2: Spitzer Working Municipal Bond Rescue Plan at Time of Revelation Woh. I guess I’ll throw a check mark in the Coincidence box as well. What else? This one seems to have it all! Why do we know that Spitzer is Client-9? Who are clients X, Y and Z? Via: Financial Times: One investment […]
NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data
March 10th, 2008Is it tinfoil if it’s on the front page of the Wall Street Journal? Via: Wall Street Journal: NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data Terror Fight Blurs Line Over Domain;Tracking Email By SIOBHAN GORMAN March 10, 2008; Page A1 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program […]
Top Iraq Contractor Skirts U.S. Taxes Offshore
March 7th, 2008Via: Boston Globe: Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation’s top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven. More than 21,000 people working for […]
Viktor Bout Arrested in Thailand
March 6th, 2008Via: CNN: For years, Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout has made millions of dollars allegedly delivering weapons and ammunition to warlords and militants. Officials believe many of his activities may be illegal, and on Thursday, Thai police announced his arrest. Authorities say Viktor Bout, seen in this 2002 image, has sold arms to al Qaeda […]
Bush Guts Intelligence Oversight Board
March 4th, 2008Via: Unbossed: On Friday afternoon the White House posted without fanfare a new Executive Order that revamps an important though little known intelligence board. There are a few minor changes, but the most radical revision appears to be that the board has now been stripped of nearly all its powers to investigate and check illegal […]
Narco Aggression: Russia Accuses the U.S. Military of Involvement in Drug Trafficking Out of Afghanistan
February 28th, 2008The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or more popularly “MI6?) was going to run a covert operation that would have been tasked with providing combat training to the Taliban/enemy/terrorists/etc. as well as, “vocational training, including farming and irrigation techniques.” The article states that the purpose of the “vocational training” would have provided the Taliban fighters […]
Guatemala to Expose Army Torture Files
February 26th, 2008Somehow, the Reuters article below doesn’t mention the CIA even once… As usual, the reader needs to look elsewhere for the basic, contextual facts: Jennifer K. Harbury Knows American Torture Starts at the Top, and It Has for Decades: …my husband had indeed been captured alive, had been held for two and a half years […]
Energy Conflicts and Differential Profits: Poor Performance of Oil Stocks Predicts Middle East Conflicts
February 19th, 2008Via: Alternative Information Center — Economy of the Occupation 10: Cheap Wars: The key beneficiaries of this new, indirect link are the large oil companies. The geographic centre of this process is the Middle East. After the Vietnam War, the Middle East has become the hot spot of global conflict, with obvious corollaries for the […]
How the Spooks Took Over the News
February 15th, 2008Via: Independent: So, who exactly is producing fiction for the media? Who wrote the Zarqawi letters? Who created the fantasy story about Osama bin Laden using a network of subterranean bases in Afghanistan, complete with offices, dormitories, arms depots, electricity and ventilation systems? Who fed the media with tales of the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, […]
Afghanistan: Planned British Covert Operation Included Training in “Farming and Irrigation Techniques” for Taliban Fighters
February 6th, 2008“The British Army provided security cordons around meetings between two senior British intelligence officers and leading members of the group responsible for producing the opium that is used to make 90% of the world’s heroin.” —Britain in Secret Talks with the Taliban But it gets so much better! The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or […]
