Tag: secrecy
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why is the cia suppressing jfk files?
from lisa pease: As Jefferson Morley reports in the Huffington Post: “Lawyers for the Central Intelligence Agency faced pointed questions in a federal court hearing Monday morning about the agency’s efforts to block disclosure of long-secret records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” Morley filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against…
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cia didn’t do enough to stop 9/11
from new york times: Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the C.I.A. director, just released a public summary of the agency’s internal post-mortem on its performance before the Sept. 11 attacks. In a news release paired with the document, the C.I.A. chief explained that he preferred to keep the document secret, urging “that we keep our focus…
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cia report on 9/11 due by labor day
from total411/the hill: The CIA has been ordered to release by Labor Day a declassified summary of an internal report on the agency’s performance prior to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, possibly shedding light on whether senior officials made fundamental lapses in judgment. Under the 9/11 bill that President Bush signed into law…
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‘maybe people who think there’s a conspiracy are right’
from oregonian: Oregonians called Peter DeFazio’s office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure “bubbleroom” in the Capitol and…
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‘executive privilege’ hides tillman documents
from raw story: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) revealed on Friday afternoon that the White House and Pentagon were holding up a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation into the friendly fire death of former professional football player and Army Corporal Patrick Tillman. “[T]he Committee wrote to White House Counsel Fred Fielding seeking ‘all documents…
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cia to release details on decades of secrets
from reuters: The Central Intelligence Agency is declassifying hundreds of pages of documents on secret operations from over three decades ago, CIA Director Michael Hayden said. The so-called “Family Jewels” document overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, according to a summary posted on the…
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army admits dumping chemical weapons at sea
from deep sea news: It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign…
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the gentlemen’s club for the rich & famous
from daily mail: The Bohemian Grove Club holds an annual summer camp at which members, who include Henry Kissinger, former President George Bush Senior, Clint Eastwood and Bob Weir, founder member of Sixties rock band the Grateful Dead, debate world politics, perform weird mock Druid ceremonies… Next month’s dinner will be preceded by traditional club…
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bilderberg alert!
from village voice: Attention, planet Earth: Your future is being decided today at the annual Bilderberg Group conference. This year’s five-star resort site is the Klassis Hotel in Silivri, Turkey, 40 miles from Istanbul.[ed: this is disinfo, because bilderberg expert jim tucker says it’s at the ritz-carlton in istanbul.] Conspiracy theorists have long thought that…
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news on the march
virgin atlantic showing ‘loose change’ in-flightfrom digg: Loose Change 2 will be shown on Virgin Atlantic flights during the month of May 2007. This incredible (and ironic) development has surfaced via email and on 9/11 Blogger. It is reported on Mercury Media, who distribute media to various networks, studios and airlines, as the first of…
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after 9/11, US archivists pulled 1 million pages
from ap/msnbc: More than 1 million pages of historical government documents – a stack taller than the U.S. Capitol – have been removed from public view since the September 2001 terror attacks, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Some of the papers are more than a century old. In some cases, entire file…