Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
Guns from ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ Found at Mexican Crime Scenes
July 27th, 2011Via: Reuters: At least 122 firearms from a botched U.S. undercover operation have been found at crime scenes in Mexico or intercepted en route to drug cartels there, a Republican congressional report issued on Tuesday said. Mexican authorities found AK-47 assault rifles, powerful .50 caliber rifles and other weapons as early as November 2009 that […]
Gun-Smuggling Cartel Figures Possibly Were Paid FBI Informants
July 21st, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: Congressional investigators probing the controversial “Fast and Furious” anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at least six Mexican drug cartel figures involved in gun smuggling also were paid FBI informants, officials said Saturday. The investigators have asked the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration for details about the alleged […]
Location Intelligence by TruePosition: System for Tracking People via Mobile Devices
July 18th, 2011For years, I’ve been speculating that the secret sauce in Russell Tice’s, “Angle that you haven’t heard about yet,” is full time tracking of individuals via their mobile devices. My guess is that the capability is a key component of MAIN CORE: The U.S. Government has, almost certainly, established a database and tracking system for […]
Police Across the Nation Will Roll Out Face-Recognizing iPhone Tech This Year
July 17th, 2011Via: Popular Science: A controversial piece of facial recognition technology … is rolling out in police stations across the country this fall, and naturally not everyone is happy about it. The Mobile Offender Recognition and Identification System (MORIS) uses an augmented iPhone to snap pictures of faces, scan fingerprints, and even to image irises, and […]
NSA Allies with Internet Carriers to Thwart Cyber Attacks Against Defense Firms
June 17th, 2011Oh sure. Via: Washington Post: The National Security Agency is working with Internet providers to deploy a new generation of tools to scan e-mail and other digital traffic with the goal of thwarting cyberattacks against defense firms by foreign adversaries, senior defense and industry officials say. The novel program, which began last month on a […]
New And Improved FBI Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, Now With Even Fewer 4th Amendment Protections
June 13th, 2011Via: New York Times: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. … Some of the most notable changes apply to the […]
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
June 13th, 2011Mmm hmm. See: The American Culture Bomb: Satire from the Onion and a Long Forgotten U.S. Army War College Essay There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and […]
Hacker Groups Thoroughly Infiltrated by Government
June 6th, 2011Via: Guardian: The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. Cyber policing units have had such success […]
Dozens of Pages Disappear from Intelligence File on Canadian Socialist
May 30th, 2011Via: The Canadian Press: Dozens of pages from a decades-old intelligence file on socialist icon Tommy Douglas have mysteriously disappeared. The disappearance came to light during a lengthy court battle over the federal government’s refusal to fully disclose the RCMP dossier on the former Saskatchewan premier and one-time federal NDP leader. Library and Archives Canada, […]
UK Training Saudi Forces Used to Crush Arab Spring
May 29th, 2011Via: Guardian: Britain is training Saudi Arabia’s national guard – the elite security force deployed during the recent protests in Bahrain – in public order enforcement measures and the use of sniper rifles. The revelation has outraged human rights groups, which point out that the Foreign Office recognises that the kingdom’s human rights record is […]
