Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
FBI Knocks Down 40 Doors in Probe of Pro-WikiLeaks Attackers
January 28th, 2011Via: Wired: The FBI has joined in the hunt for those who participated in the retaliation attacks against companies that cut off services to Wikileaks, executing more than 40 search warrants across the United States on Thursday, the bureau announced. In what seem to be timed raids, British police arrested five men Thursday morning who […]
DARPA: ‘Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales’
January 23rd, 2011Via: Fast Company: As DARPA puts it: “When we look through the evidence after the fact, we often find a trail–sometimes even an ‘obvious’ one. The question is can we pick up the trail before the fact giving us time to intervene and prevent an incident?” Computer forensics companies rise to the challenge. … NetCerto […]
MLK Photographer Was FBI Asset
January 17th, 2011Via: Seattle Times: That photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.? He took it. The well-known image of black sanitation workers carrying “I Am A Man” signs in Memphis? His. He was the only photojournalist to document the entire trial in the murder […]
IBM’s Watson: How About, “We’re Fucked” for $100, Alex
January 14th, 2011Update: Watson Won Via: PC World: Wrapping up a three-day run on the Jeopardy game show, IBM’s Watson computer has beaten two former champions in a historic match of man versus machine. —End Update— Ah, don’t worry. Surely, the regime will use this for good. *sigh* Via: Boston Globe: IBM recently created a supercomputer named […]
Britain: Trial Collapses After Undercover Officer Changes Sides
January 10th, 2011Woops. Via: BBC: The trial of six green campaigners has collapsed after an undercover policeman who had infiltrated their group offered to give evidence on their behalf. The six were charged with conspiring to shut down the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottingham in 2009. The case was due to start on Monday, but was abandoned […]
How the U.S. Let al-Qaida Get Its Hands On an Iraqi Weapons Factory
January 8th, 2011This piece makes absolutely perfect sense, as long as you know that al-Qaida is run by CIA, and that one of the main objectives in any U.S. led war is to keep it going for as long as possible. My guess is that this operation was a top to bottom CIA production, maybe using some […]
Ex-CIA Officer Indicted for Revealing that ‘Flawed’ Intelligence Operation May Have Helped Iran Gain Nuclear Technology
January 7th, 2011Via: New York Times: The former officer, Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, who worked at the C.I.A. from 1993 until he was fired in 2002, was arrested Thursday in St. Louis. He was indicted Dec. 22 on charges that he disclosed restricted information to a journalist about a clandestine program intended to impede the progress of unnamed […]
U.S. Government Agencies to Measure ‘Relative Happiness’ and ‘Despondence and Grumpiness’ to Gauge Trustworthiness
January 6th, 2011One for your Unworkable, Maniac Fascist, Magic 8 Ball Schemes file folder. Via: MSNBC: The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive new steps to prevent more WikiLeaks embarrassments, including instituting “insider threat” programs to ferret out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak classified documents, NBC News has learned. As part […]
U.S. Government Storing Information on Americans in Vast Surveillance Database
December 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation’s history, collects, stores […]
We Briefly Interrupt the Rubber Hose Beatings…
December 17th, 2010Court Rebuffs Obama on Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment Context: The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE Mark Klein on AT&T/NSA Domestic Surveillance Program: “The NSA is Getting Everything.” Ship of Fools by Ted Kaczynski
