Editor’s Note: (Ralph Turchiano) requested repost from – 2013 Guccifer Hack of Powell The 76-year-old former secretary of state said he met Corina Cretu, a 45-year-old member of the European Parliament, 10 years ago He said they began emailing each… Read More ›
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Here’s how the US could stumble into war in Ukraine
Jean MacKenzie April 25, 2014 15:48 Given Washington’s mishandling of the crisis so far, it is not out of the question. The skeptics were right. Just one week ago, as top diplomats in Geneva heralded an agreement on Ukraine… Read More ›
IRA victims plan to sue Tony Blair over Libya ‘conniving’
Tony Blair faces threat of legal action over allegation he helped Colonel Gaddafi over court case that led to British terror victims losing out on compensation deal Tony Blair with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2007. Photo: PETER MACDIARMID/AFP By Edward Malnick,… Read More ›
Former US defense secretary criticizes Obama administration in new memoir
– “suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials – including the president and vice-president – became a big problem for me” Robert Gates, who also served under George W Bush, says relations between White House… Read More ›
Obama ‘gave the go-ahead for Merkel phone tapping’ as he wanted to ‘know everything’ about world’s most powerful woman, German newspaper claims
Bild newspaper in Germany called US denials of eavesdropping ‘diplomatic lies’ as new documents emerge They quote a secret source which claims Obama not only sanctioned the operation against Mrs Merkel but extended it By Allan Hall In Berlin PUBLISHED:… Read More ›
Report: Pundits for war with Syria failed to disclose defense industry ties
Posted By Brendan Bordelon On 11:19 AM 10/12/2013 In Daily Caller News Foundation | No Comments A new study shows that most of the talking heads urging war with Syria last month worked for powerful defense contractors, a fact rarely… Read More ›
Power corrupts but it also plays with your mind: Lloyd George, Chamberlain and Thatcher all suffered from ‘hubris syndrome’
Ex-foreign secretary, Lord Owen, tells conference that condition leads to disastrous decision-making Alison Boulton Sunday, 22 September 2013 If we are to understand – and more crucially – prevent disasters such as the global financial crisis or escalation of conflict… Read More ›
Colin Powell admits to sending ‘very personal’ emails to a Romanian diplomat but DENIES having an affair as a hacker threatens to leak their intimate messages
The 76-year-old former secretary of state said he met Corina Cretu, a 45-year-old member of the European Parliament, 10 years ago He said they began emailing each other in 2005 and ‘the emails became of a very personal nature but… Read More ›
Math Behind Leak Crackdown: 153 Cases, 4 Years, 0 Indictments
July 20, 2013 By SHARON LaFRANIERE Soon after President Obama appointed him director of national intelligence in 2009, Dennis C. Blair called for a tally of the number of government officials or employees who had been prosecuted for… Read More ›
Retired 4-star general probed over Stuxnet details leak – report
Marine Corps man under investigation over malware revelations By Jasper Hamill Posted in Security, 28th June 2013 14:34 GMT A retired general has been named as the target of a US Department of Justice probe into the release of confidential… Read More ›
I have watched Barack Obama transform into the security president
During his 10 years as the Observer’s correspondent in America, Paul Harris has seen a new toughness from the once fiery campaigner Paul Harris in New York The Observer, Saturday 15 June 2013 11.11 EDT Barack Obama giving… Read More ›
Guccifer emails link Tony Blair to top-secret Bohemian Grove gathering
Published time: March 25, 2013 17:28 Edited time: March 28, 2013 07:41 Former British prime minister Tony Blair (AFP Photo / Carl Court) Attending the elusive Bohemian Grove retreat should be a priority for former UK Prime Minister Tony… Read More ›
Senior IRS officials knew in 2011 agents targeted political groups, report says
Inspector general findings seems to contradict public statements that Tea party and others were flagged for additional scrutiny Associated Press in Washington guardian.co.uk, Sunday 12 May 2013 11.18 EDT White House spokesman Jay Carney has brushed aside calls for the White… Read More ›
Is the NSA building a $1.2billion data center to spy on Americans? Utah desert facility code-named Bumblehive ‘will monitor emails of U.S. citizens’
National Security Agency insists the site will operate according to laws that limit spying on U.S. citizens But civil liberties campaigners warn that the government is seeking to expand these powers The U.S. government operated a secret warrantless wiretapping programme… Read More ›
Think tank: North Korea has already restarted plutonium reactor
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, April 3, 2013 20:56 EDT North Korea has already begun work to restart a plutonium production reactor in a sign that its confrontational rhetoric may not all be bluster, a US think tank said Wednesday. The… Read More ›
Guccifer emails link Tony Blair to top-secret Bohemian Grove gathering
Published time: March 25, 2013 17:28 Former British prime minister Tony Blair (AFP Photo / Carl Court) Attending the elusive Bohemian Grove retreat should be a priority for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, News Corp executive Andrew Knight… Read More ›
US secrecy policy run as though formed by Orwell and Kafka – top official
William Leonard, who oversaw state secrecy under George W Bush, says successive US presidents have abused system Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 March 2013 13.26 EDT Leonard said new executive powers had been created without congressional… Read More ›
No FEMA Money for Storm Victims
By CAMERON LANGFORD HOUSTON (CN) – Owners of some hurricane-damaged homes in Galveston are not entitled to FEMA buyouts, as they have no constitutionally protected right to the money, a federal judge ruled. After Hurricane… Read More ›
Symantec discovers 2005 US computer virus attack on Iran nuclear plants
Internet security firm finds early ‘Stuxnet O.5’ version revealing espionage and sabotage virus released under George W Bush Charles Arthur, technology editor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 26 February 2013 13.19 EST An alleged uranium-enrichment facility near Qom, Iran. Symantec have… Read More ›
Will new fed guidelines force companies to hire more employees with criminal pasts?
Published February 23, 2013 | FoxNews.com Employers could be pressured to hire more workers with a criminal background under recent guidelines issued by the federal government. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidelines warn businesses about rejecting minority applicants who… Read More ›
George Bush’s family emails hacked
Investigation launched into how Guccifer posted photos and personal emails of ex-US president George HW Bush online Sam Jones guardian.co.uk, Friday 8 February 2013 07.32 EST George HW Bush: the emails were said to contain details of the state… Read More ›
Did general David Petraeus grant friends access to top secret files?
Petraeus was forced out of the CIA in part because his mistress read sensitive documents. Now it is alleged he granted two friends astonishing access to top secret files as he ran the Afghan surge. In a painstaking investigation, Rajiv… Read More ›
U.S. team to help defuse isle dispute
Kyodo WASHINGTON — The U.S. government will send a group of former national security officials to Japan and China next week to encourage Tokyo and Beijing to mend diplomatic ties frayed by a territorial dispute, sources said. The U.S. team,… Read More ›
The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders
And how the Pentagon later turned on them by: Guy Lawson HIGH ON WAR: David Packouz (left) and Efraim Diveroli at a gun range near Miami (top). One of the illegal shipments of ammo they supplied to the Afghan… Read More ›
UK hooked on debt, PIMCO boss warns: “warning that the US would turn into Greece within a decade “
UK hooked on debt, PIMCO boss warns Britain is part of a debtor nation “ring of fire” where bondholders are at risk of being “burned to a crisp”, the head of the world’s biggest bond house has warned. The UK… Read More ›
Obama waives sanctions on countries that use child soldiers
Posted By Josh Rogin Monday, October 1, 2012 – 1:48 PM U.S. President Barack Obama issued a new executive order last week to fight human trafficking, touting his administration’s handling of the issue. “When a little boy is kidnapped, turned… Read More ›
Obama describes murder of U.S. ambassador to Libya and Mid East violence as ‘bumps in the road’
PUBLISHED:08:55 EST, 24 September 2012| UPDATED:09:59 EST, 24 September 2012 President Barack Obama referred to recent events in the Middle East, including violent attacks on embassies and the terrorist murder of a US ambassador and three other Americans, as ‘bumps… Read More ›
Iranian hackers target Bank of America, JPMorgan, Citi
Iranian hackers target Bank of America, JPMorgan, Citi By Jim Finkle and Rick RothackerPosted 2012/09/21 at 5:40 pm EDT Sep. 21, 2012 (Reuters) — Iranian hackers have repeatedly attacked Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc… Read More ›
The Deafness Before the Storm : IT was perhaps the most famous presidential briefing in history
Op-Ed Contributor By KURT EICHENWALD For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin… Read More ›
Psychopathic boldness tied to U.S. presidential success
Thursday, September 6, 2012 After a gunman shot him in the chest in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt went ahead and delivered a scheduled speech, blood leaking onto his shirt. “Friends,” he began, “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I’ve… Read More ›
The U.S. Global Fund for Aids Transfers 100’s of Millions of USD to the Russian and Chinese Governments
After this Global Aids Day Conference, I noticed large sums of money going into the “U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief” http://www.pepfar.gov . There are two Red Flags that need cleaning up. In order to determine which companies are… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 