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Facebook Building ‘Shadow Profiles’ of Non-Members, Experts Allege
Eight hundred million users are not enough. Facebook, the world's biggest social network, is now building profiles of non-users who haven't even signed up, an international privacy watchdog charges. The sensational claim is made in a complaint filed in August by...
FBI Expanded Domestic Surveillance Powers and the New Operations Manual
The FBI's 14,000 agents gained sweeping new investigative powers through a revised operations manual that loosened longstanding restrictions on domestic surveillance. The updated Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide expanded agents' ability to search...
FOIA Documents Raise Questions About CDC Handling of Thimerosal-Autism Study
In 2011, the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD) released documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request that raised questions about the CDC's handling of a Danish study on Thimerosal -- a mercury-based preservative used in some vaccines -- and...
Ex-CIA: ‘Forged document’ released as birth certificate
Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, the chief of Stand Up America, a national security expert and Fox News contributor, says the “Certificate of Live Birth” released in April by the White House as “proof positive” of President Obama’s Hawaiian birth is a forgery, but the...
Conspiracy of Silence – Sex Trafficking Linked to Whitehouse
In 1993 a team from Yorkshire Television came to Omaha, Nebraska to document, investigate, and un-cover the mysteries surrounding the Franklin case and the ensuing cover-up. What the team would find through the course of their near year long investigation would...
CIA: We’re Hiring – Click Here To Apply
Clandestine Service The Ultimate International Career The CIA's Clandestine Service is the front-line source of clandestine information on critical international developments, from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction to military and political issues. The mission...
Intelligence: Speeches, Reports, and Official Documents
CREST (CIA Records Search Tool) at the National Archives User's Manual for the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) - 2003 Edition, September 30, 2003 CIA-NARA Memorandum of Understanding, November 5, 1999 CIA Transfer of Computer Equipment to NARA, September 21, 1999...
Carlyle Group RFID Subsidiary Matrics and Its Swastika-Shaped Tracking Chip
The Carlyle Group and Its Defense Industry Ties The Carlyle Group, a major private equity firm led at the time by former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, held a strategic position in the years surrounding September 11, 2001. The firm had extensive investments...
How Blood Money Freed CIA Contractor Raymond Davis in Pakistan
In March 2011, a quiet courtroom proceeding inside a Lahore prison brought an abrupt conclusion to one of the most contentious diplomatic standoffs between the United States and Pakistan. Raymond Allen Davis, a CIA contractor who had shot and killed two Pakistani men...
A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X-Z A Access Board Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Administration for Native Americans Administration on Aging (AoA) Administration on Developmental Disabilities Administrative Committee of the...
ATF Mexican gun-smuggling sting scrutinized
Newly released U.S. records and assertions by a government whistle-blower support allegations that government agents allowed hundreds of firearms to be smuggled across the Arizona border and into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The records, released by a member of...
ATF: It’s illegal for medical marijuana users to own, buy guns
Federal firearms regulators are telling gun shops it’s illegal for someone who uses marijuana to own or buy guns or ammunition, regardless of whether states have passed laws allowing patients to use the drug for medicinal purposes. In an open letter to all federal...
Julian Assange Accuser Linked to CIA-Connected Anti-Castro Groups
Anna Ardin's Anti-Castro Connections Exposed The primary accuser in the Swedish sexual assault case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange maintained notable connections to anti-Castro organizations with documented ties to U.S. intelligence agencies. Investigative...
Are You Targeted?
Are you targeted? (Yes, you are.) “The program”, explained It’s a brainwashing program. Brainwashed people don’t know they’re brainwashed. The disturbing things you experience are real. The narrative is in your mind. Your imagination has been primed by a single...
AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Translate this Page! EMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty....
Codex Alimentarius and Global Food Control Laws
As global governance frameworks accelerate the integration of national economies, controlling the food supply has become a critical lever for those driving centralized authority. This dynamic explains the surge of domestic legislation worldwide that mirrors directives...
Steve Pieczenik: Bin Laden Died 2001, 9/11 Was a Stand Down Operation
Senior Defense Official Claims Osama Died From Genetic Illness Before 2002 Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a highly credentialed former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State who served under Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter, made explosive allegations during a May 2011 radio...
How the House Extended PATRIOT Act Surveillance Powers in 2011
House Maneuvered to Extend PATRIOT Act Surveillance Powers in 2011 In February 2011, the US House of Representatives executed a procedural maneuver to ensure the extension of three expiring surveillance provisions within the PATRIOT Act. After an initial attempt to...
Classified TSA Report Exposes Body Scanner and Pat-Down Failure Rates
Classified TSA Report Reveals Alarming Failure Rates In October 2011, Congressman John L. Mica, the Florida Republican who chaired the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, told reporters that a forthcoming classified report on the TSA's first decade...
Domestic Terrorist Labels: How 60 Minutes and the FBI Framed the Sovereign Citizen Movement
In May 2011, CBS aired a 60 Minutes segment on "sovereign citizens," a movement the FBI had designated as a domestic terror threat. The segment brought renewed attention to how government agencies and mainstream media collaborate to define the boundaries of acceptable...
Ahmad Wali Karzai: CIA-Linked Afghan Drug Lord Killed by Own Bodyguard
Ahmad Wali Karzai Assassinated by His Own Security Chief On July 12, 2011, Ahmad Wali Karzai — the half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai — was shot dead by Sardar Mohammed, the head of his personal security detail. Mohammed, described as a trusted friend,...
Gelareh Bagherzadeh
Gelareh Bagherzadeh, died Jan. 17, when she was shot outside her home. Detectives investigating the murder of an Iranian molecular scientist gunned down in her car as she drove home believe she was followed or that someone was waiting for her. Bagherzadeh was struck...
How Android Helped Carriers Kill Net Neutrality
The story of how Google's Android operating system reshaped the mobile industry is often told as a triumph of open-source innovation. But beneath that narrative lies a more complicated history involving broken promises, carrier alliances, and the quiet dismantling of...
How the FBI Applied Domestic Terrorism Labels to Food and Environmental Activists
The FBI's Expanding Definition of Domestic Terrorism In the years following the September 11 attacks, the FBI broadened its domestic terrorism investigations to include environmental, animal rights, and food activism groups. Documents obtained through the Freedom of...
History of FBI Wiretapping & Telecommunications Spying
Courtesy of Cryptome’s link distribution, we get a glimpse into the mind of 1952 (an era when crypto on land lines was very limited, indeed). We get to see how the US tapped and how it worked with the phone company to tap others – in the course of determining that...
Security Protocols of Instant Messaging Applications
How safe is instant messaging? A security and privacy survey The number of interested parties eager to listen in on your online conversations, including what you type through instant messaging, has never been higher. It's trivial to monitor unencrypted wireless...
How to Beat Facial Recognition & the Surveillance State
Big Brother is watching you, though probably not in the ways most of us would imagine. Sure, the cameras at banks or airport checkpoints may be on the lookout for robbers or would-be terrorists, using facial recognition technology to match pictures to existing ones....
Stallman, Founder of GNU/Linux Predicted NDAA & SOPA
Richard Stallman Was Right All Along: Late last year, president Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process. Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been labelled...
CDC Data Shows Zero Deaths From Raw Milk in Over a Decade
Zero Deaths Linked to Raw Milk in Over a Decade The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly acknowledged a striking fact: not a single death in the United States could be directly attributed to the consumption of raw milk products over an 11-year...
Yet Another Iran Nuke Scientist Assassinated
Iran: Israel, US killed nuke scientist 2012-01-11 18:49 Tehran - An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a Tehran car bombing on Wednesday that the Islamic republic immediately blamed on Israel and the United States, worsening a tense international standoff over...