Jan 25, 2012 | WAR: By Design
Senate Intelligence Committee Raises Alarms Over Secret Interpretations In the days leading up to the 2011 Patriot Act reauthorization vote, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee voiced serious concerns about how the Justice Department had been interpreting and...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
Italy Convicts CIA Operatives for Milan Rendition In November 2009, an Italian court took the unprecedented step of sentencing 22 CIA operatives and one U.S. Air Force colonel, all in absentia, for their roles in the 2003 abduction of Muslim cleric Hassan Moustafa...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
Ten Years of the Patriot Act: Civil Liberties Under Siege On October 26, 2011, the USA PATRIOT Act marked its tenth anniversary. A decade of expanded surveillance authority had produced troubling results for civil liberties advocates, who argued the law’s broad...
Jan 25, 2012 | WAR: By Design
Terrorist hunter Michael Scheuer tells Duncan Gardham and Iain Hollingshead how he was repeatedly ordered not to stop the al-Qaeda chief. Image 1 of 2 Michael Scheuer led a CIA bin Laden unit for three and a half years (AP) 9:00AM BST 21 May 2011 There are not many...
Jan 25, 2012 | Events & Assassinations
Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4th, 1969, Chicago police raided Fred Hamptons apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just twenty-one years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
The FBI Communities Against Terrorism Program and Military Surplus Stores In August 2011, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force circulated a bulletin titled Communities Against Terrorism to military surplus store owners in Colorado. The document was part of a...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda, Video
The Occupy Wall Street movement became a flashpoint not just for economic inequality, but for a deeper confrontation between law enforcement technology and citizen journalism. As thousands gathered in New York’s financial district throughout late 2011, both...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
The Department of Justice proposed expanding federal cybersecurity laws to make violations of website terms of service agreements a criminal offense. Under this interpretation, actions as mundane as uploading a video that ran afoul of a platform’s content...
Jan 25, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Activism
Do you know what to do when the police try to seize your server, computer, or phone? Take our quiz to see how well you know your rights when law enforcement threatens your digital data. 1) The cops have a warrant to search my computer. They’re demanding my...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
The Greenbrier Bunker: A Case Study in Secrecy Less than a year after the Cold War ended, one of its most closely guarded secrets was exposed when the Washington Post revealed the hidden purpose of West Virginia’s Greenbrier Hotel. Beneath the luxury resort lay...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
Government Agents Raid Farm Dinner and Order Organic Food Bleached A community dinner event at a small organic farm in southern Nevada was shut down by health department officials who ordered all locally grown food destroyed with bleach, despite the farm owners having...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
According to the conference agenda (courtesy of cryptome.org) the theme this year will be Intelligence and the Decision Maker — focusing on the intelligence needs of leaders in the public and private sectors as they navigate a world of increasing globalisation: Also...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda, Video
TruTV Episode on FEMA Camps Pulled From Broadcast Schedule In 2010, the TruTV series “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura” produced an episode focused on FEMA camps and domestic preparedness facilities that was pulled from the network’s rebroadcast...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new document uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act. This new information comes as...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
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...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
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...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
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...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda, Video
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...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
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...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
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...
Jan 25, 2012 | Black Technology, Government Agenda
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...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
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...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
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...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
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...
Jan 25, 2012 | Government Agenda
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...
