- Bombshell: Chalabi & Top INC Official Are Spies for Iran; Op Inadvertently Paid for by Pentagon
The US-backed Iraqi National Congress was actually a front for Iranian intelligence, which used the group to help bamboozle the US into invading Iraq and then to receive stolen US military secrets, some of it classified above top secret. Patrick...
Posted Sat 05/22/2004
- Senior Pentagon & Dept. of Justice Officials Approved Torture, er, "Extreme Interrogation" Techniques at Gitmo
From the Washington Post: In April 2003, the Defense Department approved interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison that permit reversing the normal sleep patterns of detainees and exposing them to heat, cold and "sensory assault," including loud...
Posted Sun 05/09/2004
- Torture at Abu Ghraib: The Complete Taguba Report (part 1)
The full text of the secret Teguba Report, detailing the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison by members of the US military. Includes the section on "ghost detainees" (prisoners secretly held with no record of their detention) that is missing from many public versions. Also includes photos.
Posted Sun 05/09/2004
- Torture at Abu Ghraib: The Complete Taguba Report (part 2)
(Continuation from part 1 of this post.) The full text of the secret Teguba Report, detailing the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison by members of the US military. Includes the section on "ghost detainees" (prisoners secretly held with no record of their detention) that is missing from many public versions. Also includes photos.
Posted Sun 05/09/2004
- Claim vs. Fact: Rice's 9/11 Testimony Dissected
Claim vs. fact – a factual counterpoint to the testimony of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (aka the 9/11 Commission) on April 8, 2004. Written by David J. Sirota and Christy Harvey and...
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
- Full Transcript: Condoleezza Rice's Sworn Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission, 4/8/04
The complete transcript of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, on April 8, 2004. Includes her prepared opening statement as well as the question-and-answer session that followed.
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
- Declassified Docs & Audio Prove US Support for 1964 Brazil Coup
From the National Security Archive: "I think we ought to take every step that we can, be prepared to do everything that we need to do," President Johnson instructed his aides regarding preparations for a coup in Brazil on March...
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
- 'Routine' NSA Email Intercept Leads to Arrests in Britain & Canada; First Reported Bust from NSA Email Snooping
Citing anonymous sources in the British intelligence community, The Sunday Times reported that an e-mail message intercepted by NSA spies precipitated a massive investigation by intelligence officials in several countries that culminated in the arrest of nine men in Britain and one in suburban Orleans, Ontario. It is the first time that routine US monitoring of e-mail traffic has led to an arrest.
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
- Declassified: Presidential Daily Briefing, Aug. 6, 2001 (text)
The full text (as declassified) of the Presidential Daily Briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Transcribed from a photographic copy. The text below is formatted similarly to the original. All italics and name...
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
- Declassified: Presidential Daily Briefing, Aug. 6, 2001 (images)
Photo reproductions of the declassified version of the Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6, 2001. Also, click here to download as a PDF (273kb). For a text transcript, go here....
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
- Canadian Inquiry May Reveal CIA Secrets on Outsourcing Torture
From The Village Voice: While the nation focused on Richard Clarke's allegations last week, CIA director George Tenet let slip other revelations in his testimony to the 9-11 Commission, admissions that sharpen the contours of the shadowy intelligence practice called...
Posted Wed 03/31/2004
- Uncensored 'Hackergate' Report Accidentally Released; Perps' Names Revealed
An uncensored version of the Senate Sergeant At Arms' report on his investigation into Republican hacking of sensitive Democrat computer servers was accidentally released to journalists on March 4. The 67-page report includes the names of the partisan cyber-thieves, other...
Posted Tue 03/30/2004
- FBI, Customs Stole Declassified Docs From AP in 2003
As reported here previously, in early 2003 the FBI and US Customs secretly "seized" a declassified government report being sent from one Associated Press reporter to another from a Federal Express facility in Indianapolis, IN. No warrant was ever issued,...
Posted Tue 03/30/2004
- FBI 'Warned' Magazine in 2002 That FOIAed Docs 'Might' Be Stolen
In early 2002, Insight magazine reported it had been visited by FBI agents who "warned" the editors that if documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act were given to the periodical, "someone" might steal them. The report takes on...
Posted Tue 03/30/2004
- Kerry FBI Files Stolen From Author's Home in 'Very Professional Job'
From CNN: FBI documents about FBI surveillance of John Kerry in the early 1970s have been stolen, according to their owner, a historian who lives near San Francisco, California. Gerald Nicosia, who spent more than a decade collecting the information,...
Posted Tue 03/30/2004
- Transcript: Richard Clarke on 60 Minutes, 3/21/04
CBS has not posted an official, full transcript of Richard Clarke's explosive appearance on 60 Minutes. Here is an unofficial rush transcript. Leslie Stahl interviews Richard Clark Sixty Minutes March 21, 2004 LESLIE STAHL: ... and was held over by...
Posted Tue 03/23/2004
- Forensic Experts Confirm Northern Alliance Massacre of Afghan Prisoners; Hundreds, Possibly Thousands Died
From the London Observer: Dramatic corroboration of the massacre of Afghan prisoners by the US-backed Northern Alliance at the start of the war in 2001 was last night provided by American pathologists commissioned to investigate the claims by the UN....
Posted Tue 03/23/2004
- CIA Using Database Codenamed 'Harmony' to Catalog Info from Tortured Captives
The London Guardian reported in Sept. 2003 that the CIA is using a database codenamed "Harmony" to catalog the responses given by captives taken in the war on terror. This includes the results of interrogations under torture. Especially important or...
Posted Mon 03/15/2004
- GAO: CAPPS II Airline Screening Program Poses 'Severe Threats' to Civil Liberties
A highly critical report by Congress' investigative wing released today [Feb. 12, 2004] vindicates the long-standing concerns of the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups from across the political spectrum that the controversial airline passenger screening system known as...
Posted Sun 02/15/2004
- Senate Republicans Hacked Dem Computers For At Least a Year, Stole Secret Memos
From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. The security hole dates from 2001, so the penetration may have began earlier. During that time, the GOP staffers "monitored" secret strategy memos and accounts of private meetings, periodically passing on copies to the media. One of the media recipients was Robert Novak, the columnist who illegally revealed the name of an active CIA deep-cover agent last year.
Posted Sun 01/25/2004
- Leaked: Restricted FBI Surveillance 'Guidance' for Voice-Over-IP Providers
A restricted FBI document has leaked, detailing recent FBI "requirements" for "electronic surveillance capabilities" needed so the Bureau can tap "carrier-grade voice-over-IP" (CGVoP). The document, dated January 2003, was intended to "provide guidance" to "service providers and equipment manufacturers."
Posted Fri 01/02/2004
- Memo Shows INC Piped Raw Iraq 'Intel' Directly to Cheney & Office of Special Plans
A memo obtained by Newsweek shows the Iraqi National Congress fed questionable intelligence reports about Iraqi WMD and purported ties to al-Qaida directly to one of Vice President Cheney's top national security aides, as well as to a senior member of the Office of Special Plans who formerly served as military adviser to Newt Gingrich. This completely bypassed all normal intelligence channels and vetting, contrary to Cheney denials on just this point. Cheney and OPS staffers later pushed that same INC info to bolster the case that Hussein's government posed a direct threat to America.
Posted Fri 01/02/2004
- MI6's 'Operation Mass Appeal' Planted Misinformation to Justify Iraq War
From the London Sunday Times: The Secret Intelligence Service has run an operation to gain public support for sanctions and the use of military force in Iraq. The government yesterday confirmed that MI6 had organised Operation Mass Appeal, a campaign...
Posted Tue 12/30/2003
- US Using Police Software to Track Iraqi Insurgents
From the Associated Press: American troops battling the shadowy guerrilla insurgency in Iraq have adopted the computer-sleuthing tactics of urban police departments to prepare strikes against rebel fighters and their sources of money and weapons. Military intelligence analysts have adopted...
Posted Fri 12/26/2003
- Fourth Prosecutor Added to Wilson/Plame CIA Leak Investigation
From the Washington Post: The Justice Department has added a fourth prosecutor to the team investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity, while the FBI has said a grand jury may be called to take testimony from administration...
Posted Fri 12/26/2003
- Nov. Court Ruling Revealed FBI Use of OnStar-Type Services to Spy on Car Passengers
From SecurityFocus.com: An appeals court this week [ca. 11/19/03] put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver's on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert eavesdropping device, after finding that the spying effectively disables the system's...
Posted Wed 12/24/2003
- Newly Declassified Transcript Proves Kissinger Gave OK for Argentine Death Squads in 'War on Terrorism'
Newly declassified State Department documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that in October 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and high ranking US officials gave their full support to the Argentine military junta and urged them to hurry up and finish the "dirty war" before the US Congress cut military aid. Kissinger's OK led to at least 10,000 deaths in the next 7 years.
Posted Mon 12/08/2003
- Text of FBI Bulletin Urging Cops to 'Monitor' Antiwar Protests
The New York Times revealed on Nov. 25 the existence of a classified FBI bulletin sent to police departments in October in advance of antiwar demonstrations scheduled in Washington, DC and San Francisco. The bulletin provided details on activist organizing,...
Posted Mon 12/08/2003
- Legislation Would Permit CIA Agents to Operate Directly Within Local Police Forces
The JTTF Enhancement Act of 2003 (HR 3439) seeks to ammend federal law to permit CIA agents to be "detailed" to any "local law enforcement agency." It would also permit any state employee and/or any cop to be detailed to...
Posted Fri 11/14/2003
- Ambassador Wilson: 'What I Didn't Find in Iraq'
The NY Times Op-Ed piece by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that prompted the Bush Admin to illegally leak the name of his wife, an active deep-cover agent for the CIA working on WMD, in retribution.
Posted Mon 07/07/2003
- Homeland Security Establishing Regional Offices
Testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee, Tom Ridge said the Dept. of Homeland Security plans to create regional offices in order to provide a "direct point of contact" for governors and mayors. Ridge also wants to fold the management...
Posted Tue 05/20/2003
- Bush Orders Halt to Document Declassifications Required by Law, Will Re-classify Many Others Already Released
President Bush signed an Executive Order today that delays the release of millions of documents that were due to be automatically declassified, as required by a 1975 law. What's more, he announced the government would actually re-classify documents already released...
Posted Tue 03/25/2003
- NSA Order to Spy on UN Security Council Members Opposed to Iraq Invasion
Full text of an NSA email obtained by the London Observer revealing a 2003 covert operation to conduct surveillance ops on the home and office communications of UN Security Council delegates from nations opposed to a US invasion of Iraq....
Posted Mon 03/03/2003
- NSA Intercepting UN Security Council Members' Private Communications
The United States is conducting a secret 'dirty tricks' campaign against UN Security Council delegations in New York as part of its battle to win votes in favour of war against Iraq. Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which involves...
Posted Mon 03/03/2003
- US Secretly Aided Al Qaida Mass Escape From Afghanistan
During a recent appearance on the PBS program NOW with Bill Moyers, veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh discussed the secret role of top US policy makers in creating a protected corridor out of Afghanistan that permitted 3-5,000 Taliban and Al...
Posted Sun 02/23/2003
- A Spook in Every FBI Office: CIA Expands Domestic Ops
The CIA is well on its way to installing analysts and covert action operatives in "each of the
56 FBI field offices in the United States." These CIA agents will liaison directly with both FBI and local police departments.
Posted Mon 02/10/2003
- Secret 'Patriot II' Law Even Worse Than the First
The Bush Administration is preparing a bold, comprehensive sequel to the USA Patriot Act passed in the wake of September 11, 2001, which will give the government broad, sweeping new powers to increase domestic intelligence-gathering, surveillance and law enforcement prerogatives, and simultaneously decrease judicial review and public access to information.
Posted Sat 02/08/2003
- Italian Police Planted Bombs, Faked Stabbing to Justify Brutal Attacks on Genoa Protesters
Police in Genoa, Italy have admitted to fabricating evidence against globalization activists in an attempt to justify police brutality during protests at the July 2001 G8 Summit.
Posted Mon 01/13/2003
- CIA Honing Assassination Strategy; Secret Bush 'Finding' Grants Authority for Wet Ops
Senior intelligence officials confirm that a secret finding recently signed by President Bush, building on an earlier one by President Clinton, grant the CIA legal authority to conduct assassination operations against individuals designated as terrorists. As a result, the CIA is devising strategy and policy to that end, and is developing assets for assassinations within both the CIA and "uniformed military units," as well as foreign agents in Middle Eastern countries. Officials within the CIA are reportedly adamant that there be a clear paper trail indicating authorization for assassination ops come from the President in order to avoid accusations the Agency is acting on its own, as happened during Congressional investigations during the 1970s.
Posted Wed 10/31/2001
