Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: South of the Border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must * new * Neon and day-glow guns ‘R’ us. Former NSA contractor Reality Winner1 is currently incarcerated pre-trial for alleged leaking to the press of details on American intelligence agencies investigations into foreign interference during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Much of the media coverage […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] strengthening the FOI Act rather than weakening it. Nate Jones is director of the FOI project run by George Washington University’s National Security Archive (ironically abbreviated to NSA), a cross-disciplinary effort between academics and journalists which (to cite the project’s own raison d’etre) ‘….combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] Chennault and the Nixon team were doing but decided not to blow the whistle during the election campaign – possibly because the main source on this was NSA intercepts which he didn’t want to reveal. Although we have known about this in outline for a while, Sullivan recounts these events in enormous detail in […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted little attention initially, a nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to […]