View from the Bridge

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[…] Trump campaign was ‘lawful and appropriate’. The appointment was an expression of the suspicion of some – the certainty of others – within Trump’s circle that the FBI was a part of a ‘deep state’ conspiracy to prevent his election. In October 2020 Durham was appointed a Special Counsel. His investigations have led to […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] told by the Bush White House that the air was safe to breathe.6 Under legal pressure from the families of 9/11 victims, Biden has now said more FBI material will be opened up.7 In the UK there is the demand to reopen the inquest into the death in the North Tower of British citizen […]

The Trump threat or the rule of the Don

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] open ballot-rigging, with Texas leading the way. This is unlikely to be enough and the regime is getting ready to unleash targeted repression against its enemies. The FBI raids on John Bolton’s home and office are a clear warning to his enemies that he is coming for them. Not only has ICE been dramatically […]

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[…] Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents)…..they are described as working for Bishop Reporting (sic). From memory I think the Office of Security had clipped this piece from The Grapevine a small […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] its complexity; and that’s something resource-starved news organisations just can’t handle, even if their owners were so minded. 3 Senator Bob Graham, Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America’s War on Terror (Random House, 2004) 4 5 6 7 Could George W Bush really have been in business […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] operate his own blackmail scam. He provided trafficked children for ‘powerful officials’, filmed the abuse and blackmailed them. One of those who ‘may have been ensnared… was FBI head J. Edgar Hoover’. (pp. 50-51) What amazes Kendzior is that at the time all this was coming out, most of the media was totally uninterested […]

Facilitating Tyranny? Glenn Greenwald and the creation of the NSA’s ‘Panopticon’

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of examples: the Occupy protesters fear of being infiltrated by the police and the ‘incredibly pervasive climate of fear’ in some American Muslim communities due to extensive FBI infiltration and surveillance and their knowledge they were being monitored: ‘And the reason is that they know that they are always being watched. They know that […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] spent rounds were left for the authorities to find. But framing a live Oswald would have been impossible: he would have talked of his activities with the FBI and CIA and the plan must have included Oswald’s murder. (The fact that Oswald went home after the shooting to pick up his revolver suggests that […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] been reduced to a tiny rump. Why they did not do so is not known. My guess would be that they were told not to by the FBI, which was letting Soviet money into the CPUSA. In the early 1970s, what we might call anxious patriots believed the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’. […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] spent rounds were left for the authorities to find. But framing a live Oswald would have been impossible: he would have talked of his activities with the FBI and CIA and the plan must have included Oswald’s murder. (The fact that Oswald went home after the shooting to pick up his revolver suggests that […]

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