DHS Orders 450 Million Rounds of .40 Caliber Ammunition
The 450 Million Round Contract In March 2012, ammunition manufacturer ATK announced it had been awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreement from the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for .40 caliber...
How the Word Terrorism Became a Political Weapon
In U.S. political and media discourse, Terrorism means little more than: that which America’s Enemies du Jour (generally Muslim Enemies) do to it, but not what America and its allies do to anyone.
Arab League Observers Documented CIA MI6 Mossad Role in Syria Violence
Arab League Observer Mission Documented Armed Groups Targeting Civilians and Police A closer examination of the Arab League observer mission report from Syria — covering the period from December 24, 2011 through January 18, 2012 — revealed a significantly more...
Federal MEK Investigation Targeted Former Officials While Bypassing K Street Lobbying Firms
Federal Probe Targeted Former Officials but Not Their Lobbying Firms A federal investigation into payments connected to an Iranian dissident organization took an unusual path in 2012, focusing on prominent former government officials who received speaking fees while...
Greg Smith Resignation: Inside Goldman Sachs Toxic Culture Shift
Twelve Years Inside Goldman Sachs In March 2012, Greg Smith, an executive director and head of Goldman Sachs’ United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, publicly resigned through an opinion piece published in a major...
Matrix Breakthrough: Self Correcting ‘Computer’ Code Discovered in Depths of String Theory
“Doubly-even self-dual linear binary error-correcting block code,” first invented by Claude Shannon in the 1940’s, has been discovered embedded WITHIN the equations of superstring theory! Why does nature have this? What errors does it need to...
Sapelo Shell Ring Complex: Ancient Georgia Settlement Predating the Pyramids
The Sapelo Shell Ring Complex: A Pre-Pyramid Settlement On Sapelo Island, located six hours southeast of Atlanta off the Georgia coast, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient settlement that predates the Egyptian pyramids. Known as the Sapelo Shell...
WikiLeaks Cables Exposed US Trade Retaliation Against Nations Opposing Monsanto GMO Crops
WikiLeaks Cables Reveal US Trade Pressure Over GMO Crops Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks exposed a pattern of the United States government pressuring foreign nations that resisted genetically modified crops produced by Monsanto and other biotech companies. The...
How the FBI Turned Anonymous Leader Sabu Into an Informant
The Unmasking of Sabu: When Anonymous Met the FBI In March 2012, the hacking world was shaken by the revelation that Hector Xavier Monsegur — known online as “Sabu,” a prominent figure in the hacktivist collectives Anonymous and LulzSec — had been secretly...
Orange County Sheriff Kills US Marine Sgt. Manuel Loggins Jr. In Front Of His Children
http://youtu.be/Evg4xppTEPg Marine Sergeant Manuel Loggins Jr. was shot and killed by an Orange County Sheriff’s deputy in the parking lot at San Clemente high school. According to the Sheriff’s department the deputy watched Loggins crash...
U.S. Special Operations Surveillance Plane Crashes in Djibouti, Killing Four Airmen
In February 2012, a U.S. Air Force special operations surveillance aircraft crashed near Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, killing all four service members on board. The single-engine U-28A had been returning from an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission in...
Judge Naomi Buchwald: Corrupted By Monsatno
On February 24, Judge Naomi Buchwald handed down her ruling on a motion to dismiss in the case of Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn et al v. Monsanto after hearing oral argument on January 31st in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Her ruling to dismiss the case...
Federal Agencies Accused of Blocking Border Patrol Access
Security analysts and former enforcement officials raised alarms in early 2012 that federal land management policies were effectively creating safe corridors for smugglers and unauthorized border crossers across vast stretches of the American Southwest. Multiple...
FBI Sting Operations: Manufacturing Terror Plots to Thwart
Over the course of the past decade, a troubling pattern emerged within American law enforcement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation repeatedly announced the disruption of domestic terrorism plots — plots that, upon closer examination, the Bureau itself had conceived,...
Appeals Court: No Forced Decryption
Privilege Against Self-Incrimination Applies to Act of Decrypting Data San Francisco – A federal appeals court has found a Florida man’s constitutional rights were violated when he was imprisoned for refusing to decrypt data on several devices. This is the...
How the USDA Fast-Tracked Monsanto GMO Seed Approvals
USDA Announces Accelerated GMO Approval Process In a move that raised serious questions about food safety oversight, the USDA announced plans to dramatically speed up the regulatory review process for genetically modified seeds produced by companies like Monsanto....
Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize After WikiLeaks Disclosures
Nobel Nomination for the WikiLeaks Source In February 2012, U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Manning had been accused of orchestrating one of the largest leaks of classified information in American military history, providing...
The 2012 Wave of Global Banking and Government Resignations Explained
A Wave of Banking and Government Resignations in Late 2011 and Early 2012 Between late 2011 and early 2012, an unusual concentration of high-profile resignations occurred across the global banking sector and government leadership. While executive turnover is a normal...
Anonymous Delivers Stratfor Intelligence Emails to WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks Publishes Millions of Stratfor Intelligence Emails On February 27, 2012, WikiLeaks launched the publication of The Global Intelligence Files — a massive trove of more than five million internal emails from Stratfor, a Texas-based private intelligence firm....
The Thomas Drake Case: How the NSA Prosecuted a Whistleblower Who Exposed Waste
The Case of Thomas Drake and the NSA In 2011, former National Security Agency senior executive Thomas Drake faced federal prosecution in a case that raised fundamental questions about the treatment of government whistleblowers in the United States. Drake had raised...
Line Noise: Electronic Device Search and Seizure
EFF activist Eva Galperin interviews EFF criminal defense attorney, Hanni Fakhoury, on the newest edition of Line Noise, the EFF podcast. Whether law enforcement wants to search your home computer, tries to browse through your smart phone at a traffic stop, or seeks...
Company Who Lobbied NDAA Indefinite Detention Bill Gets 23 Million Dollar Contract for Night Raid Equipment
The Intel Hub December 20, 2011 According to reports from the Daily Kos and Russia Today, a company specializing in night raid equipment was awarded a 23 million dollar contract from the Department of Defense and subsequently went on to lobby for the NDAA which has...
The Secret Farm Bill and the Congressional Supercommittee Controversy
The Congressional Supercommittee and Agricultural Legislation In late 2011, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, commonly known as the “supercommittee,” became a focal point of controversy over legislative process and concentrated power. The...