Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
How the Pentagon Was Duped by Contractors Using Shell Companies
January 5th, 2020Duped. *wink* Missing $21 trillion? Yep, still missing. Via: Bloomberg: Shell companies have come under attack for obscuring illicit money flowing into real estate. But it turns out they’re also a problem for the Pentagon. Some Defense Department suppliers have used such front companies to fraudulently win manufacturing bids, according to a U.S. Government Accountability […]
U.S. Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops
January 5th, 2020Via: Courthouse News: Nearly 400 people who were either wounded while serving in the U.S. military in Afghanistan or are family members of service members who died in the conflict sued a group of companies on Friday they say helped fund attacks against Americans by making protection payments to the Taliban. “Defendants supported the Taliban […]
U.S. Kills Top Iranian General in Baghdad
January 2nd, 2020Update: U.S. State Department: All U.S. Citizens Should Depart Iraq Immediately Via: U.S. Embassy Baghdad: Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region, the U.S. Embassy urges American citizens to heed the January 2020 Travel Advisory and depart Iraq immediately. U.S. citizens should depart via airline while possible, and failing that, to other countries […]
Medical Student Tried to Smuggle Cancer Research to China
January 1st, 2020Just another day at the office. Via: AP: A medical student from China who U.S. authorities say tried to smuggle cancer research material taken from a Boston hospital out of the country has been held without bail by a judge who ruled he was a flight risk. Zaosong Zheng, 29, who last year earned a […]
Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance
December 27th, 2019Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: Trackers are hiding in nearly every corner of today’s Internet, which is to say nearly every corner of modern life. The average web page shares data with dozens of third-parties. The average mobile app does the same, and many apps collect highly sensitive information like location and call records even when […]
Mysterious Drones Flying Nighttime Patterns Over Northeast Colorado Leave Local Law Enforcement Stumped
December 25th, 2019Via: Denver Post: A band of large drones appears to be flying nighttime search patterns over northeast Colorado — and local authorities say they don’t know who’s behind the mysterious aircraft. The drones, estimated to have six-foot wingspans, have been flying over Phillips and Yuma counties every night for about the last week, Phillips County […]
NSA’s Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
December 23rd, 2019Via: Cypherspace: Before the US crypto export regulations were finally disolved the export version of Lotus Notes used to include a key escrow / backdoor feature called differential cryptography. The idea was that they got permission to export 64 bit crypto if 24 of those bits were encrypted for the NSA’s public key. The NSA […]
Warrant Not Always Needed for ‘Inadvertent’ NSA Surveillance of Americans
December 19th, 2019This sort of fluff is nothing compared to: “It’s just like laundering money – you work it backwards to make it clean.” Enjoy your 4th Amendment. Via: Reuters: The U.S. government may collect information about U.S. citizens without obtaining a warrant if the information is gathered inadvertently while legally carrying out surveillance of non-nationals abroad, […]
Surveillance Footage Outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s Cell During Suicide Attempt Is Missing
December 18th, 2019Maybe prison officials handed the data over to NASA for safekeeping. Via: New York Daily News: Surveillance footage of the outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell at the troubled Metropolitan Correctional Center during his suicide attempt has gone missing, prosecutors revealed Wednesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Swergold admitted nobody can find the footage of the outside […]
Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century
December 17th, 2019Via: Ron Paul: “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages […]
