Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
FBI Explanation of Missing Oklahoma City Bombing Tapes Not Credible, Judge Says
March 27th, 2012Why not just produce it? If you know what I mean by produce it. Maybe they could get the birdman on the job. It shouldn’t take long. Via: Deseret News: A federal judge on Wednesday continued to question the FBI’s explanation for not producing videotapes associated with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that a Salt […]
French Interior Minister: Police in Armed Stand-Off with Toulouse Shooting Suspect
March 21st, 2012Update: Mohamed Merah Entered Israel, Was Investigated by Shin Bet and Released Via: Haaretz: An investigation by Israeli intelligence revealed on Monday that Mohamed Merah, the gunmen responsible for last week’s Toulouse shootings, spent time in Israel and Palestinian territories over a year and a half ago. According to the Shin Bet, Merah entered Israel […]
The One About Jim Rawles and the FBI Cookie Caper
March 20th, 2012Several people have submitted this one, and, as usual when non technical people offer technical advice on their blogs, I hold my head in my hands and ask, “When is this going to stop?” Rawles saying that using a VPN, “Will allow you to surf the Internet anonymously,” is VERY reckless. He goes on to […]
Head LulzSec Is an FBI Informant
March 7th, 2012Via: USA Today: Five alleged hackers have been charged with breaking into the computer systems of governments, corporations and media organizations after the reputed head of the LulzSec ring became an FBI informant, authorities announced. Research Credit: Noble
FBI Manages to Produce Another ‘Homegrown’ Terrorism Spectacle
February 18th, 2012Via: Washington Post: The FBI and the U.S. Capitol Police arrested a Moroccan man Friday in downtown Washington after a lengthy investigation into an alleged plot to carry out a shooting spree and a suicide bombing at the Capitol. Amine el-Khalifi, 29, was picked up while carrying an inoperable MAC-10 automatic weapon and a fake […]
Britain: Undercover Police Had Children with Activists
January 22nd, 2012Via: Guardian: Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy on and later disappeared completely from the lives of their offspring, the Guardian can reveal. In both cases, the children have grown up not knowing that their biological fathers – whom they have not seen in decades […]
Coming Soon: Retroactive Surveillance on Anyone
December 17th, 2011Via: Network World: As the price of digital storage drops and the technology to tap electronic communication improves, authoritarian governments will soon be able to perform retroactive surveillance on anyone within their borders, according to a Brookings Institute report. These regimes will store every phone call, instant message, email, social media interaction, text message, movements […]
Austrian Makes Formal Request for All Personal Information Facebook Keeps on Him
December 14th, 2011Via: ThreatPost: Be careful of what you ask for. That’s a lesson that Max Schrems of Vienna, Austria, learned the hard way when he sent a formal request to Facebook citing European law and asking for a copy of every piece of personal information that the world’s largest social network had collected on him. After […]
Multimillion Dollar Crowdturfing Industry Growing Exponentially
December 13th, 2011Incredibly, laughably, this piece doesn’t mention things like the U.S. Military’s desire to develop persona management software or Team Themis (HBGary Federal, Palantir and Berico): After having spent several months studying those emails and otherwise investigating the industry depicted therein, I have revealed my summary of a classified US intelligence programme known as Romas/COIN, as […]
Beyond Guantánamo, a Web of Prisons for Terrorism Inmates
December 12th, 2011Via: New York Times: It is the other Guantánamo, an archipelago of federal prisons that stretches across the country, hidden away on back roads. Today, it houses far more men convicted in terrorism cases than the shrunken population of the prison in Cuba that has generated so much debate. … As of Oct. 1, the […]
