Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism: Criticism of Obama Regime Serves “The Goals of Al-Qaeda”
February 9th, 2010U.S. Intelligence Cleared to Assassinate Americans Without Trial
Via: ABC News:
In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan — Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism — responds to critics of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies by saying “Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of [...]
U.S. Intelligence Cleared to Assassinate Americans Without Trial
February 8th, 2010The difference between past eras and now is that a person who’s high up the kill chain is publicly admitting that the U.S. regime has given itself the power to murders its own citizens.
Via: ABC News:
The director of national intelligence affirmed rather bluntly today that the U.S. intelligence community has authority to target American citizens [...]
U.S. Intelligence Officials Asked State Department to NOT Revoke Crotch Bomber’s Visa
February 7th, 2010Via: Detroit News:
The State Department didn’t revoke the visa of foiled terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because federal counterterrorism officials had begged off revocation, a top State Department official revealed Wednesday.
Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Abdulmutallab’s visa wasn’t taken away because intelligence officials asked his agency not to [...]
FBI Wants Records Kept of Web Sites Visited *Yawn*
February 7th, 2010I’m posting this to let those of you (who are submitting this) know that I don’t understand why you find it noteworthy.
With all the posts I’ve done on network surveillance, I’m getting story submissions about retention of URLs?
Guys, splash some cold water on your faces, break out the smelling salts, wake up.
It might be that [...]
GOOGLE NOW WORKING WITH NSA
February 4th, 2010Via: Washington Post:
The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer [...]
U.S. Doing ‘Scientific Research’ to Boost Interrogations
February 4th, 2010Via: AFP:
An elite US interrogation unit will conduct “scientific research” to find better ways of questioning top suspected terrorists, US intelligence director Dennis Blair said Wednesday.
“It is going to do scientific research on that long-neglected area,” Blair told the House Intelligence Committee, without elaborating on the nature of the techniques being tested.
A spokesman for Blair, [...]
Pentagon Black Budget Sees Year Over Year Record Funding; Tops $56 Billion
February 2nd, 2010More Change.
Via: Wired:
The Defense Department just released its king-sized, $708 billion budget for the next fiscal year. Much of the proposed spending is fairly detailed — noting exactly how many helicopters the Pentagon plans to buy and how many troops it plans on playing. But about $56 billion goes simply to “classified programs,” or to [...]
CIA Officers Working for Private Corporations
February 2nd, 2010Related: They Made a Killing: The Use of Knowledge of Covert Operations in the Stock Market
Via: Politico:
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds [...]
Airstrip Built at Zimbabwe Diamond Field
February 1st, 2010Via: Telegraph:
A secret airstrip is being built in a diamond field illegally seized by the Zimbabwean army 14 months ago which would enable clandestine weapons shipments.
Diplomats and analysts believe that the mile-long runway is intended for arms shipments, probably from China, for which troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe would pay on the spot with [...]
U.S. Citizens Targeted for Assassination by the Joint Special Operations Command
January 29th, 2010Via: Washington Post:
U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional al-Qaeda affiliate, according to senior administration officials.
The operations, approved by President Obama and begun six weeks [...]
