Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Britain in Secret Talks with the Taliban
December 28th, 2007What percentage of the world’s heroin results from Afghan opium production? 90% How many times does the article below mention opium? It doesn’t mention opium at all. So, in summary: 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 […]
Schneier: Microsoft Vista SP1 Includes Random Number Generator that Could Contain NSA Backdoor
December 18th, 2007But since most people don’t know which operating system that they’re using… Via: Bruce Schneier: Dual_EC_DRBG Added to Windows Vista Microsoft has added the random-number generator Dual_EC-DRBG to Windows Vista, as part of SP1. Yes, this is the same RNG that could have an NSA backdoor. It’s not enabled by default, and my advice is […]
U.S. Paid $32 Million for Iraqi Base that Wasn’t Built
December 15th, 2007I wouldn’t automatically assume corruption. This could easily be a black ops shell game. The cutout didn’t build the base, but maybe it did something else… See Daniel Hopsicker’s ongoing investigations into CIA cutouts. Via: USA Today: The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army […]
CIA Destroyed Videotapes of Torture Sessions
December 7th, 2007Here’s one for your no-shit-Sherlock file folder. But don’t expect the Associated Press to mention that these tapes would have been prima facie evidence of atrocities, for which the perpetrators might have faced trial under international law. Via: AP: The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes […]
U.S. Says it has Right to Kidnap British Citizens
December 3rd, 2007Via: Times: AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap†British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it. The […]
NZ Attorney General on GCSB Intercepts in Urewera 16 Case: “That Evidence Will Never See the Light of Day.”
November 8th, 2007Not even in 200 years? * uncomfortable chuckle * Why would the evidence—collected under interception warrants—“never see the light of day?” Well, it turns out that the government isn’t going to go with terrorism charges here after all. But… Revealing the “evidence” would reveal the methods by which it was collected, and, in all likelihood, […]
Mark Klein on AT&T/NSA Domestic Surveillance Program: “The NSA is Getting Everything.”
November 8th, 2007Must see related stories: NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance Via: Washington Post: A Story of Surveillance Former Technician ‘Turning In’ AT&T Over NSA Program By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 7, 2007; D01 His first inkling that […]
AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance
October 31st, 2007Please indulge me by re-reading this extended passage from Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation: Remember Russell Tice, the NSA SIGINT officer who had knowledge of a special access NSA operation that was so disturbing that he tried to tell the U.S. Congress about it? What was Tice talking about here: Tice said his information […]
Bush Fundraiser Linked to CIA Drug Plane
October 30th, 2007Via: Mad Cow Productions: A MadCowMorningNews investigation has uncovered links between the ownership of the drug-running Gulfstream (Cocaine Two) and the other American-registered plane busted carrying a multi-ton load of cocaine in Mexico recently, the DC9 (Cocaine One) airliner caught with 5.5 tons of cocaine in Mexico 18 months ago. Recently-released FAA records from the […]
Italian Government: “Testing of Top Secret Weapons by an Unknown Power” May Have Caused Sicily Fires
October 27th, 2007I almost wanted to take a screenshot of this… Yes: This story is actually posted on the Telegraph. And it’s not little green men, mind you! It was either, “Unnatural forces capable of creating a large amount of electromagnetic energy,” or, “The testing of top secret weapons by an unknown power which are also capable […]
