May 182013
 

Via:  freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/calea-ii-risks-of-wiretap-modifications-to-endpoints/

 

Will US secure communication devices come with a new generation of backdoors?

Where US device makers go, the world usually follows.

Apr 192013
 

Via:  www.globalresearch.ca/clinton-bush-and-obama-us-war-crimes-over-three-administrations/5331757

www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/us-practiced-torture-after-9-11-nonpartisan-review-concludes.html

More at:  detaineetaskforce.org

detaineetaskforce.org/report/

 

Over two years a 11-member Task Force produced a ~600-page report on the abuse of detainees over three US administrations.

The report covers extraordinary renditions, black sites, rendition, enhanced interrogation tactics, night raids, pulpified prisoner’s legs, the use of feeding tubes….

Apr 182013
 

Via http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/clear-2012.pdf

 

The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence has a official number – 4.9 million as personnel with a government-wide security clearance.

A 2009 report  estimated that 2.4 million.

A 1995 GAO report offered an estimate of 3.2 million for 1993.

 

Thats a lot of relatives to visit, school teachers to track down, friends to interview, state and federal databases to search…  sealed state court records found?

Someone did take the time to sit down and do the interviews or is it all digital from a laptop now?

Feb 192013
 

Via:  www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence

 

Tracking users…. via a  ”proof of concept” product that was not sold to any clients?

Private sector and public sector getting around ‘walled gardens’ find what?  Security risks?

Like protesters in front of an East German church – what are the options?

The optics of mass arrests?  Or yet more expensive undercover work.

 

Jan 102013
 

Via:  www.northcom.mil/News/2012/121112.html

 

A new generation of military training and defense operations.

 

 

Dec 012012
 

 

 

Olson’s sons Eric and Nils are in court with the question of been killed in custody vs the drug linked suicide story.

Dec 012012
 

Via:  fairewinds.org/content/podcast-november-21-2012-thanksgiving-edition-financial-pressures-are-affecting-safety-decis

 

Details on the High Pressure Safety Injection System, the cost of operating nuclear plants when not producing power during extended shutdowns.

 

Nov 252012
 

Going back to the site:

consortiumnews.com/2012/11/04/the-why-behind-the-benghazi-attack/

A interesting view after the “Mata Haris” like email find

presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/19/273240/coup-and-countercoup-in-washington/