Tag: secrecy
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pentagon closes controversial intelligence unit
from reuters: The Pentagon on Monday said it was closing a controversial intelligence office that had raised concerns about domestic spying by the military after the September 11 attacks. The Defense Department said it had “disestablished” the Counterintelligence Field Activity office, or CIFA, created in February 2002 by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to manage…
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white house briefed for ‘potential for life’ on mars
from universe today: It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more “provocative” than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. This news comes just as the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) confirmed experimental evidence for the existence of water in the…
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weaving spiders come not here: bohemian club convenes
masters of the universe have a gay old time at grovefrom sacramento news review: The dark woods on the outskirts of this run-down Russian River resort town are silent now, save the occasional rustle of wind through the towering redwoods. In two weeks, however, the thick moss-laden trunks of the Bohemian Grove will reverberate with…
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uranium shipped to canada from iraq in secret mission
from ap: The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program, a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium, reached Montreal on Saturday to complete a top-secret U.S. operation. The removal of 550 metric tonnes of “yellowcake,” the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment, included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a voyage across two oceans.…
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Bilderberg Blowout: Another Coverup Exposed
epoch times interviews alex jones at bilderbergfrom epoch times: While over a hundred of the most influential people in the world are believed to gather at the Westfields Marriott hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, for several days (June 5–8) all the major media, except for the Epoch Times, are apparently silent about it. The event is…
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bilderberg: the shadow supergovernment
from peace reporter: It was particularly difficult this year to find out when and where the annual conclave of world powerbrokers, the Bilderberg Group, would take place. Finally, it appears certain that the highly secret meeting of western political-military elites will take place from June 5 – 8 in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington, in a…
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does the white house have a secret laser defense?
from danger room: There are all kinds of stories about how the White House is defended. One urban legend says Stinger anti-aircraft missiles are supposedly perched on the roof. According to this 1998 report by Human Rights Watch, Pennsylvania Avenue may be protected by a laser weapon, meant to ward off 9/11-style suicide attacks… The…
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collateral 41: privileged disinformation
from collateral news: If you subscribe to the common wisdom, you probably think politicians are corrupt. If you’re a reasonably well-informed citizen, at least you know their names. But imagine if you weren’t permitted to know the identity of your congressperson or senator. Imagine that congress met & voted on laws in secret. Would you…
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pentagon tries to memory hole new report
cancels plan for broad public release of report that debunks neocon lie of saddam/bin laden linkfrom steve watson: The Pentagon has blocked the scheduled release of a definitive report that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. The report (3.39mb PDF), which is based on 600,000 official Iraqi…
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top-secret livermore anti-germ lab opens
from sfgate: A high-security laboratory where deadly microbes are being grown by scientists seeking defenses against terrorist attacks began operating in Livermore last week without public announcement, and opponents said Friday that they will go to federal court in an effort to close the facility down. Built inside the closed campus of the Lawrence Livermore…
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china hushes up olympic deaths
from the australian: China has systematically covered up the accidental deaths of at least 10 workers, and perhaps many more, in a rush to construct the futuristic “bird’s nest” stadium in Beijing for this summer’s Olympic Games… Witnesses have told The Sunday Times of seeing workers plummet to their deaths from the perilous heights of…
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hillary the hawk & billy’s secret papers
hillary the hawkfrom counterpunch: When Senator Hillary Clinton voted on October 11, 2002, to turn over to President George W. Bush the power that the Constitution vested in her and congressional colleagues to decide whether or not to wage war – or, quoting House Joint Resolution 114, whether an attack on Iraq was “necessary and…
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hayden: cia destroyed videotapes of ‘interrogation’
from ap: The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later out of fear they would leak to the public and compromise the identities of U.S. questioners, the director of the agency told employees Thursday. CIA Director Michael Hayden said House and Senate intelligence committee leaders…
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bush session with reporters was strictly off-the-record
from jason rhyne: Fourteen White House reporters were given a rare hour of access to President Bush on Monday, but the issues they discussed won’t be making any headlines – the session was all off-the-record. The informal meeting, as reported by the Los Angeles Times, took place as part of a new White House plan…
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why they called it ‘the manhattan project’
from new york times: By nature, code names and cover stories are meant to give no indication of the secrets concealed. “Magic” was the name for intelligence gleaned from Japanese ciphers in World War II, and “Overlord” stood for the Allied plan to invade Europe. Many people assume that the same holds true for the…