Category Archives: spooks
Carnivore data dumped
The Register reports that swathes of useful intelligence data (regarding Al Qaeda suspects) may have been destroyed in an effort to cover up the fact that the FBI’s communications sniffer Carnivore was illegally collecting data on ordinary citizens along with … more…
Bruce Sterling “Geeks and Spooks” speech
IP: Bruce Sterling “Geeks and Spooks” speech at Information SystemSecurity and Education Center – what it says on the tin. (via Boing Boing)
Officers kill militia voice; deputy shot
Officers kill militia voice; deputy shot – officers kill, in point of fact, well known far-right conspiracy theorist and shortwave radio personality William Cooper. (Arizona Republic, via Null Device)
Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away
Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away – timeline of suspicious carryings-on leading up to 911, with sources. (copvcia.com, via wood s lot)
Should the CIA be licensed to kill?
Front page user poll in the New Statesman asks: Should the CIA be licensed to kill? – now this is the most prominent left wing journal in the UK, and the voting is Gush-Bore tight: 47.4% Yes, 50.8% No, 1.71% … more…
CIA Admits It’s Good At Overthrowing Stuff, Not So Much The Intelligence
CIA Admits It’s Good At Overthrowing Stuff, Not So Much The Intelligence – it could only be The Onion really, couldn’t it?
The Literature of Intelligence
Get up to speed on spookspeak with The Literature of Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with Essays, Reviews, and Comments – mmmm, destabilising!