05 December, 13:31 (ANSAmed) – BELGRADE, DECEMBER 5 – Serbia’s ambassador to NATO, Branislav Milinkovic, 52, committed suicide last night at the Zaventem airport in Brussels, Serbia’s diplomatic delegation confirmed to ANSA. The sources did not indicate the… Read More ›
Intelligence Gathering
US and UK spooks alerted over massive Swiss data leak
Rogue IT admin plundered state secrets By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 4th December 2012 19:25 GMT Free whitepaper – A private Cloud-based approach The Swiss intelligence agency (NDB) has been warning its US and UK counterparts that… Read More ›
Kissinger and the secret spy network of old Nazis and German aristocrats ‘who plotted to overthrow West German goverment’
‘The Little Service’ was made up of many former Gestapo and S.S. men as well as titled barons and counts Kissnger even discussed with them the possibility of a coup to overthrow the government of Chancellor Willy Brandt The Little … Read More ›
Are U.S. Defense Experts Getting China Wrong? Yes on Everything
Dec. 1, 2012 – 12:56PM | By WENDELL MINNICK | TAIPEI — Are Western experts on China’s military modernization efforts misreading and downplaying the level of ambition, sophistication and just plain guts the Chinese are showing in the country’s quest… Read More ›
Warning Graphic: This is who Hague set Free
Friday, 30 November 2012 19 Witnesses, all Albanians who were suppose to testify against Ramush Haradinaj were brutally executed during a 7 year time frame. The rest of the witness who were pretty much as good as dead refused to… Read More ›
Family of Cold War bioweapons expert say he was drugged with LSD and pushed from window by CIA operatives as part of top-secret program
By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press PUBLISHED: 22:24 EST, 28 November 2012 | UPDATED: 22:24 EST, 28 November 2012 Murdered? Frank Olson was long through to have jumped to his death in 1959, but his sons now say he… Read More ›
A $230 million fraud – and a trail of death that just keeps growing
Alexander Perepilichnyy is the fourth person connected to a murky tax case to have met a suspicious end Jerome Taylor Tuesday, 27 November 2012 With its sweeping vistas of the Persian Gulf and central location in the Middle… Read More ›
Supporters Wail as Judge Denies Bail to Hactivist : The hack that exposed the private information of 860,000 Stratfor clients
By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge refused release to one of the men accused of helping Anonymous and others hack various media, government and private-spy websites last year. Jeremy Hammond was one of five so-called hacktivists arrested… Read More ›
Czech anti-chemical warfare troops are in Jordan
Posted By John Reed Wednesday, November 21, 2012 – 1:11 PM Czech troops are in Jordan, providing technical expertise in case Syria’s massive stockpile of chemical weapons is somehow unleashed by the Assad regime, rebels, or terrorists. “We… Read More ›
The charmer-in-chief: Obama gets flirty as he schmoozes with Thai prime minister on first stop of historic Asia visit
EEV: Saving this one for the creepy photo’s: Plus a great photoshop of Obama viting the reclining Buddha. Obama visits Thailand on first stop of his three-day Southeast Asia tour He was joined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Obama will next… Read More ›
Petraeus and Allen ‘asked’ Jill Kelley to wade into diplomatic row over Hulk Hogan sex tape husband’s threat to deep fry a Koran
By James Nye PUBLISHED:02:18 EST, 17 November 2012| UPDATED:09:13 EST, 17 November 2012 As far as degrees of separation go, it is safe to assume that David Petraeus, the disgraced former director of the CIA never in his life thought… Read More ›
Jill Kelley’s world: White House visits, meals with generals, and name-dropping emails to Tampa mayor
By William R. Levesque and Alex Leary, Times Staff Writers William R. LevesqueAlex LearyTampa Bay Times In Print: Saturday, November 17, 2012 TAMPA — Her business card is utterly ordinary. No big titles. No hint of connections with… Read More ›
Petraeus tells Congress that ‘Obama administration altered CIA talking points’ on Benghazi
By Associated Press Reporter and Toby Harnden In Washington PUBLISHED:08:56 EST, 16 November 2012| UPDATED:13:09 EST, 16 November 2012 Former CIA Director David Petraeus has told Congress that the CIA believed almost immediately that al-Qaeda-linked terrorists were behind the September… Read More ›
Pressure on Cameron to block EU army HQ plans: “creation of a new European Union military command”
David Cameron faces a looming political battle to defend Britain’s veto over defence policy after France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland urged the creation of a new European Union military command “structure”. Prime Minister David Cameron gives a press conference… Read More ›
The US mounting its military presence in China’s “soft belly”
Boris Volkhonsky Nov 16, 2012 16:31 Moscow Time Photo: EPA This weekend and the beginning of the next week will witness an unprecedented rise in US diplomatic activity in the region which until lately was a “black spot” in Washington’s… Read More ›
Russia loses space contact
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 8:27 AM Russia on Wednesday lost the ability to send basic commands to most of its satellites and segment of the International Space Station following a vital cable failure near Moscow. The Roscosmos space agency attributed… Read More ›
Obama signs secret directive to help thwart cyberattacks
By Ellen Nakashima, Wednesday, November 14, 7:27 AM President Obama has signed a secret directive that effectively enables the military to act more aggressively to thwart cyberattacks on the nation’s web of government and private computer networks. Presidential Policy… Read More ›
Jane Harman and Israeli Spying : NSA wiretap in 2005 had picked up Harman promising a suspected Israeli agent that she would aid people indicted for espionage on behalf of Israel
Possible New CIA Director Already Politically Compromised Jane Harman and Israeli Spying by ALISON WEIR It is astounding to find that one of the handful of prospects being floated to become CIA director following the fall of General David Petraeus… Read More ›
NASA Suffers “Large” Data Breach Affecting Employees, Contractors, and Others
POSTED BY: Robert N. Charette / Wed, November 14, 2012 Yesterday, NASA sent a message to all NASA employees informing them of a data breach involving an agency stolen laptop. According to the NASA message posted at SpaceRef.com, “On October… Read More ›
David Petraeus affair: Florida twins courted generals and racked up millions in debt
Twin Florida socialites Jill Kelley and Natalie Khawam have emerged at the centre of the David Petraeus affair. Jon Swaine investigates their high-rolling lifestyles and access to America’s elite. Jill Kelley leaves her home in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday. Photo:… Read More ›
Petraeus sex’n’menaces webmail trail leads to NATO A’stan General, Spook, soldier, G-man embroiled with adulterous minx duo (Broadwell’s computer, had secret documents)
By John Leyden Posted in Security, 13th November 2012 16:37 GMT Free whitepaper – Nemertes Research: Mobile Security Challenge Emerges The top US Army commander in Afghanistan has been dragged into an investigation that led to the resignation of former… Read More ›
FBI Agent in Petraeus Case Under Scrutiny: Agent in question sent shirtless photos to Ms. Kelley well before the email investigation began
U.S. NEWS Updated November 12, 2012, 10:24 p.m. ET By DEVLIN BARRETT, EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN WASHINGTON—A federal agent who launched the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus was barred from… Read More ›
Eric Holder ‘knew of David Petraeus affair’ for months but kept it secret until the day of the American election?
The crisis over General David Petraeus’s resignation reached President Barack Obama’s cabinet for the first time on Monday as it was alleged that the US attorney general knew about the affair for months but kept it secret until the day… Read More ›
Did Petraeus mistress reveal new Benghazi details?
Engineering Evil: Initial video used by the FP was removed. We had to find a duplicate: Prisoner detail begins at about 1:17 Posted By Blake Hounshell Sunday, November 11, 2012 – 9:56 PM So here is a bizarre twist in the David… Read More ›
CIA denies claim from Petraeus’ girlfriend that Benghazi annex held Libyan prisoners
Posted By Neil Munro On 2:12 AM 11/12/2012 @ 2:12 AM In DC Exclusives,DC Exclusives – Blurb,Featured,Politics,World | The Central Intelligence Agency denied charges Sunday that its annex in Benghazi, Libya secretly held a few jihadi prisoners until it was… Read More ›
HSBC and Goldman Sachs held $335m of Libyan state oil money ( Gaddafi’s Billions? )
Reposted at request in regards to the HSBC Jersey offshore account scandal 26th May 2011 Update: Global Witness publishes the Libyan Investment Authority financial position as of September 2010 Read BBC Business Editor Robert Peston’s analysis of this story Listen to… Read More ›
Petraeus ‘flew mistress to Paris for a trip that was funded by the government’ after he was named CIA chief
By Hayley Peterson and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:00:00 EST, 11 November 2012| UPDATED:20:26 EST, 11 November 2012 David Petreaus took his mistress with him on a government funded trip to Paris after he was named director of the Central … Read More ›
Jill Kelley, State Dept. liaison, is mystery woman Paula Broadwell harassed via email leading to FBI probe: AP
Another person who knows Kelley and David Petraeus confirmed their friendship and said she saw him often, according to The Associated Press Sunday, November 11, 2012, 3:04 PM A senior U.S. military official says the author who had an affair… Read More ›
China’s 2nd Stealth Fighter Aircraft Takes to the Skies
Nov. 9, 2012 – 11:36AM By Wendell Minnick China’s second stealth fighter jet, the J-31 Falcon Eagle, looks remarkably like earlier models of a twin-engine variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Last week’s maiden flight of the JSF’s… Read More ›
FBI probe of Petraeus triggered by e-mail threats from biographer to another woman
By Sari Horwitz and Greg Miller, Updated: Saturday, November 10, 2:05 PM The collapse of the impressive career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to… Read More ›
Petraeus’ Mistress Allegedly tried to access classified information
Petraeus’ Mistress Allegedly Tried To Hack Into His Email, FBI Investigating General Petraeus and Broadwell Yesterday, four-star general David Petraeus resigned from his position as director of the CIA, citing a serious indiscretion, “After being married for over 37 years,… Read More ›
Why David Petraeus’s Gmail account is a national security issue: “enormous value to foreign hackers”
Posted by Max Fisher on November 10, 2012 at 11:14 am CIA Director David Petraeus speaks during a high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room. (Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images) The beginning of the end came for… Read More ›
Petraeus quits just DAYS before he was due to testify at Benghazi hearings as FBI probes ‘massive national security threat’
Gen David Petraeus, who held CIA director post for only 14 months, dramatically announced resignation Friday Had been scheduled to testify next week in closed-door hearing about September 11 attack of U.S. Consulate in Libya Will no longer testify as… Read More ›
Lockheed CEO-in-Waiting Forced Out Over ‘Relationship’
Nov. 9, 2012 – 05:24PM | By DEFENSE NEWS Chris Kubasik had been slated to take over as CEO of Lockheed Martin. (Thomas Brown / Staff Lockheed Martin’s board of directors ousted CEO-in-waiting Christopher Kubasik on Nov. 9 following an… Read More ›
Critics question Petraeus’ timing : No longer has to testify at the Benghazi hearing
Critics question Petraeus’ timing By: Katie Glueck November 9, 2012 05:45 PM EST Gen. David Petraeus’s resignation from the CIA on Friday sparked skepticism among media pundits and journalists that the Obama administration had stalled the bombshell until after the… Read More ›
Generation Hate Attacks and Creative Islamic hackers
November 9, 2012: In late October Israeli police were ordered to stop using the Internet or plugging USB memory sticks into their PCs. All this was prompted by the recent discovery of stealthy hacker software hidden in some police… Read More ›
Russia, Italy in joint naval exercises
Nov 9, 2012 18:31 Moscow Time Photo: RIA Novosti A frigate and a naval tugboat from Russia and two frigates from Italy have successfully carried out joint counter-piracy and air defence exercises in the Ionian Sea. The mock attackers were… Read More ›
The Penn State Scandal Faces Off 2 Mysterious Government Agents With Top Secret Clearance
Michael Kelley|Nov. 7, 2012, 4:05 PM| Two men on opposite sides of one of the biggest scandals in sports history share an air of secrecy granted by their work for the FBI. Former Penn St. president Graham Spanier was arraigned… Read More ›
Benghazi documents available to senators only today and tomorrow, when most senators are not in Washington
Benghazi documents available to senators only when they are out of town Posted By Josh RoginThursday, November 8, 2012 – 12:16 PM Share Under pressure from senators, the State Department is allowing some lawmakers to look at cables and… Read More ›
China submarines soon to carry nukes, draft US report says
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 02:52 GMT Source: Reuters * Report urges China be brought into arms-limitation talks * Submarine-launched nuclear warheads seen within 2 years * China is accused of being “most threatening” power in cyberspace By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON,… Read More ›
Russian attack sub discovered just 200 miles from US East Coast is given safe harbor during Hurricane Sandy
Nuclear-powered sub believed to be part of Russia’s Northern Fleet It was armed withtwo types of anti-sub warfare missiles and torpedoes First time a Russian Sierra-2 class sub has detected near a U.S. coast U.S. defense officials are downplaying the … Read More ›
Ohio Vote Challenged Already
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) – A voter wants Secretary of State Jon Husted enjoined from using Election Systems & Software voting machines today, claiming a “back door” in its hardware will allow tampering with results, in Federal Court…. Read More ›
UK Ministry of Defence hacked by NullCrew ( Profanity Warning)
Posted by Mohit Kumar on 11/06/2012 07:56:00 AM | . The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence website (www.qhm.mod.uk) hacked by two Null Hacking Crew members @OfficialNull and @Timoxeline and They extracted data published online. The data dump include 3400 email … Read More ›
Tory paedophile scandal: will MPs use privilege to name X?
Meanwhile X himself tells Telegraph the sex abuse allegations are ‘totally without any grounds’ Column LAST UPDATED AT 09:52 ON Tue 6 Nov 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE at 1.20pm: Home Secretary Theresa May warned MPs not to use Parliamentary privilege to… Read More ›
‘Mafiosi’ stand to gain most from EU bail-out of Cyprus
Russian oligarchs and “mafiosi” who have parked their illegal earnings inside the country stand to benefit most from an EU bail-out of Cyprus, according to a report by Germany’s intelligence agency. Cyprus is in talks with international lenders on the… Read More ›
Turkish ex-president’s autopsy fuels poisoning speculation
Sun, 4 Nov 2012 15:11 GMT Source: reuters * Newspaper report of strychnine poisoning denied * Ozal’s son calls for investigation of “dark years” * Turgut Ozal helped shape modern Turkey By Can Sezer ISTANBUL, Nov 4 (Reuters) – An… Read More ›
Welcome to 2035…the Age of Surprise: where not even governments can project the direction humanity
Originally posted Sep 2012 The exponential advancement of technology has reached a critical point where not even governments can project the direction humanity is headed. Some researchers forecast an eventual singularity where the lines between humans and machines are blurred…. Read More ›
Who pocketed Gaddafi’s billions? $150 Billion, who stole this money and where it is now?
Andrei Ontikov Nov 1, 2012 16:50 Moscow Time Photo: EPA NATO’s military campaign in Libya is remarkable, among other things, for the following two reasons. First – the damage that the air raids by the Western anti-Gaddafi alliance caused to… Read More ›
‘Troubling’ Surveillance Before Benghazi Attack “Assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures,” he wrote hours before the assault.
Sensitive documents found amid the wreckage of the U.S. consulate shine new light on the Sept. 11 assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. BY HARALD DOORNBOS, JENAN MOUSSA |NOVEMBER 1, 2012 BENGHAZI, Libya — More than… Read More ›
Second Chinese stealth fighter makes test flight
J-31 aircraft photographed near Shenyang appears to be a smaller version of the J-20 prototype tested last year Associated Press in Beijing guardian.co.uk, Thursday 1 November 2012 08.34 EDT A Chinese J-20 stealth jet. The J-31 spotted this week is… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 