Tag 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)
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?
Weapons of American Terrorism: Torture
Catalogue/portal page citing US-sponsored torture around the world since WWII Weapons of American Terrorism: Torture – this is a Google cached link, not the original page, which has been removed, along with the user account that created it. Oh say … more…
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!