The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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’. […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[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)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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’. […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] may be an exaggeration but perhaps not that much of one, as the recent list of ‘58 admitted false flag attacks’ suggests.30 26 27 In ‘JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call’. There is no mention of the call in Jefferson Morley’s recent biography of James Angleton, The Ghost: The Secret Life of […]

Lob86ViewfromBridgepdf

Lobster Issue

[…] 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’. […]

Lob 82 View from Bits copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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