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LIVE: NSA chief testifies at House hearing The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday lawmakers are worried about the possibility of further disclosures about the government’s sweeping electronic surveillance and the impact that could have on efforts to combat terrorism. “We don’t want to make this thing more damaging that it already has become,” Rep. Mike Rogers said ahead of an open hearing the Intelligence Committee scheduled with [...] (June 10, 2013) – Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul appeared on CNN tonight to tell Piers Morgan why he objects to the NSA surveillance program. Morgan directly asked Paul if he would have actually ended surveillance programs if he were president. Paul said he would still want intelligence gathering, but it would be done in a more transparent way, maintaining that the current surveillance program are unquestionably unconstitutional. He [...] A Russian bomber recently carried out simulated cruise missile attacks on U.S. missile defenses in Asia, raising new questions about Moscow’s goal in future U.S.-Russian defense talks. According to U.S. officials, a Russian Tu-22M Backfire bomber on Feb. 26 simulated firing air-launched cruise missiles at an Aegis ship deployed near Japan as part of U.S. missile defenses. A second mock attack was conducted Feb. 27 against a ground-based missile defense site in [...] Alex Newman The U.S. government allowed Mexican drug cartel hit men working as “confidential informants” for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to murder people inside the United States, an American federal law enforcement supervisor told the private intelligence firm Stratfor in e-mails released by WikiLeaks. ICE neither confirmed nor denied the allegations when contacted by The New American. The explosive leaked documents containing the claims were part of a massive batch [...] RT.com With less than two weeks to go before the US presidential election, the Secret Service is ramping up its intelligence-gathering efforts and asking Twitter users to report threatening tweets against politicians to a local field office. Debates over the November 6 election are already raging on social media: Users exchanged around 6.5 million tweets during the third presidential debate on Monday, and a few of the messages contained death [...] Susanne Posel In 2010, the US Army’s Operating Concept 2016-2028 was published and explains how armed forces in the US and overseas will behave in the future. Specific tactical operations, special “theater”, and organized forces are outlined along with the capabilities and priorities of the US armed divisions. In simple terms: a full spectrum operations manual that details stratagems both domestic and foreign. Presidential administrativeNational Security Strategy documents explain how to defend the Republic [...] Susanne Posel In 2010, the US Army’s Operating Concept 2016-2028 was published and explains how armed forces in the US and overseas will behave in the future. Specific tactical operations, special “theater”, and organized forces are outlined along with the capabilities and priorities of the US armed divisions. In simple terms: a full spectrum operations manual that details stratagems both domestic and foreign. Presidential administrativeNational Security Strategy documents explain how to defend the Republic [...] Syria’s envoys to UAE and Cyprus defect, opposition claims
1.22pm: Israel’s military chief of staff has warned that an attack onSyria‘s stockpile of chemical weapons could trigger a widespread conflict with international repercussions, writes Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem. “Speaking to the Israeli parliament’s [...] Huffington Post The U.S. Military is looking to relocate some of their predator drones, sending some to South and Central America, according to a new article in Wired Magazine. As US forces come home from Afghanistan, the US military seems to have a surplus of predator drones — remotely operated unmanned aircraft vehicles often used to carry out attacks and intelligence gathering missions. Drones previously used in Afghanistan will be given [...] A British politician revealed that a turf war between the CIA and the FBI fumbled a massive intelligence-gathering mission very easily could have prevented the September 11th attacks. In testimony to Parliament, British opposition security spokesman David Davis talked about how the dispute between the two agencies took too long and they missed a vital window of opportunity to spy on the Taliban prior to the attacks. The issue dates back to [...] Mission Creep: DHS Agency Abandons Fighting Terrorism, Shifts to Hiring Police, Taking Over America Aaron Dykes A new white paper presented to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence carves out an ‘evolving mission’ for Homeland Security that moves away from fighting terrorism and towards growing a vast domestic intelligence apparatus that would expand integration with local/state agencies and private-public partnerships already underway via regional fusion centers. Crafted by the Aspen Institute [...] JOE WOLVERTON, II With so many of our most essential liberties under attack from the oligarchy on the Potomac, it is little wonder that the freedom of the press and speech are next on the government guillotine. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center (NOC) released its Publicly Available Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness Initiative last year and in that report the intelligence-gathering arm of the DHS, [...] From BBC News; An American man of Iranian descent has been sentenced to death by a court in Tehran for spying for the CIA, Iranian media report. Amir Mirzai Hekmati was “sentenced to death for co-operating with a hostile nation, membership of the CIA and trying to implicate Iran in terrorism,” semi-official Fars news agency said. The 28-year-old’s trial last month heard he had confessed to the charges. But Mr Hekmati’s US-based family [...] Melvin Goodman When Pvt. Bradley Manning appeared in a military courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland, last week, it was his first public appearance in more than 19 months. Manning has been held without trial for the past year and a half; only now is a hearing being conducted to determine if there is sufficient evidence to refer his case to a general court martial. During this period, Manning, who [...] I don’t know if anyone’s posted this video and accompanying must-read text it is based on. Especially vital if you live in a rural area, but also important for non-rural survival as well. Monsters of Anarchy – Post Collapse Security Considerations
Link to above video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOo9bjLtL3Q Economic Collapse & Security: I Am Your Worst Nightmare (November 26, 2010) I don’t know if anyone’s posted this video and accompanying must-read text it is based on. Especially vital if you live in a rural area, but also important for non-rural survival as well. Monsters of Anarchy – Post Collapse Security Considerations
Link to above video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOo9bjLtL3Q Economic Collapse & Security: I Am Your Worst Nightmare (November 26, 2010) Kurt Nimmo The TSA insists citizens can possibly avoid cancer-causing naked body scanners and sexual molestation pat-downs if they elect to divulge personal information to the government. “A select group of travelers may find it easier Tuesday getting through security checkpoints at four major U.S. airports in return for voluntarily providing more personal information to the federal government as part of a new pilot program,” [...] WASHINGTON (AP) – The CIA inspector general is investigating whether the agency broke the law by helping the New York Police Department build intelligence-gathering programs that monitored life in Muslim communities, the agency said Tuesday following an investigation by The Associated Press. Separately, the U.S. government’s top intelligence official conceded that it looked bad for the CIA to be working with city police departments. “It’s my own [...] Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Matt Drudge is “just wrong” for dubbing her “Big Sis” on his Drudge Report website, and defended DHS’s efforts to respect people’s civil liberties while protecting against terrorist attacks. “I don’t think he means it kindly,” Napolitano said, when asked about the nickname today during an event sponsored by Politico. “I think that what he means is that we are [...] The War on Terror doesn’t make us safe any more than the War on Drugs keeps drugs off the streets. The thing that keeps rattling around my brain every time one of these major attacks takes place is that really this war is being waged in the wrong way entirely. Instead of invading Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, we should be following the money, going after [...] Sheryl Cwele, wife of South Africa’s intelligence minister, has been convicted of drug trafficking. Cwele, married to Siyabonga Cwele, recruited women to smuggle drugs into the country from Turkey and South America, a judge found. Allegations of drug trafficking surfaced in 2009 after the arrest of a South African woman caught in Brazil with cocaine worth $300,000 (£200,000). Tessa Beetge is currently serving an eight-year jail sentence in Sao [...] China bank fraud alert The FBI sent out a warning this week about a new wave of cybercrime emanating from China after computer thieves stole $11 million from U.S. businesses. “The FBI has observed a trend in which cybercriminals – using the compromised online banking credentials of U.S. businesses – sent unauthorized wire transfers to Chinese economic and trade companies located near the Russian border,” the [...] (Reuters) – A cache of classified U.S. military documents provides intelligence assessments on nearly all of the 779 people who been detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. The secret documents, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, reveal that most of the 172 remaining prisoners have been rated as a “high risk” of posing a threat to the [...] By DEVLIN BARRETT The Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun questioning Libyans living in the U.S., part of an effort to identify any Libyan-backed spies or terrorists, and collect any information that might help allied military operations. The move reflects concerns among U.S. officials—in the wake of an allied bombing campaign that established a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent the massacre of antigovernment rebels—that Libyan leader [...] |
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