Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Extremely Compartmentalized Information?
July 24th, 2013Update: 12 October 2014: “Exceptionally Compartmented Information,” or ECI Via: The Intercept: The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents, leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, also […]
Leaked Report Shows High Civilian Death Toll from CIA Drone Strikes
July 23rd, 2013This only covers the period from 2006 to 2009. Via: Salon: A secret document obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals for the first time the Pakistan government’s internal assessment of dozens of drone strikes, and shows scores of civilian casualties. The United States has consistently claimed only a tiny number of non-combatants have […]
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans
July 15th, 2013You’ll love this. A “source” explains that the reason for this is that diaspora communities in America are thirsting for U.S. Government propaganda, but can’t access it. *snort* Via: Foreign Policy: For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that […]
Bin Laden Raid Files Moved from Pentagon to CIA to More Easily Shield Them from Public Scrutiny
July 8th, 2013Via: Washington Post: The nation’s top special operations commander ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout to be purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being made public. The secret move, described briefly in a draft report […]
National Intelligence Director Apologizes for Lying to Congress
July 3rd, 2013Via: U.S. News and World Report: The director of National Intelligence apologized in June to the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee for lying during a hearing, according to a letter published on the DNI website on Tuesday. Director James Clapper appeared before the committee in March, where Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked him specifically […]
Washington Post Brushes a Few More Prism Crumbs Onto the Floor
June 30th, 2013Thank you, Master, thank you. My now familiar and broken-record-response to this thing is to go back to Room 641A last decade if you want a real thrill. They have beam splitters installed at the peering points. NSA is getting everything. The end. The media’s repeated ramblings/mantras about the FISA court and protections for Americans […]
The Insider Threat Program
June 23rd, 2013Via: McClatchy: Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of Americans’ phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees to keep closer tabs on their co-workers and exhorts managers to punish those who fail to report their suspicions. President Barack Obama’s unprecedented […]
Former TWA Flight 800 Investigators Claim Coverup
June 19th, 2013Via: ABC News: In a new documentary, former investigators who looked into the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800, which killed 230, are breaking their silence to claim that the explosion that brought down the plane in 1996 was likely no accident, and that the final report on the cause of the blast was falsified. […]
Offensive Cyber Effect Operations
June 19th, 2013Via: CNN: Today, the United States is conducting offensive cyberwar actions around the world. More than passively eavesdropping, we’re penetrating and damaging foreign networks for both espionage and to ready them for attack. We’re creating custom-designed Internet weapons, pre-targeted and ready to be “fired” against some piece of another country’s electronic infrastructure on a moment’s […]
Chemical Weapons Experts Still Skeptical About U.S. Claim That Syria Used Sarin
June 15th, 2013Via: McClatchy: Chemical weapons experts voiced skepticism Friday about U.S. claims that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad had used the nerve agent sarin against rebels on at least four occasions this spring, saying that while the use of such a weapon is always possible, they’ve yet to see the telltale signs of a […]
