The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Journalism, shows that in 2010: If you copy America, you get America. The best and the brightest (not) There are some dumb, short-sighted fucks working in the intelligence services. Look at the CIA operation to run a fake vaccination drive in Abbotabad in the attempt to verify that Osama Bin Laden was living there. […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Bug Democrats’ Office Here’. The story by police reporter Alfred E. Lewis began: Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, were arrested at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee here. It […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He was tasked to determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was ‘lawful and appropriate’. The appointment was an expression of the suspicion of some – the certainty of others – within […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I once had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community. He related to me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up […]

Lob 82 View from Bits copy

Lobster Issue

[…] General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He was tasked to determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was ‘lawful and appropriate’. The appointment was an expression of the suspicion of some – the certainty of others – within […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael V. Hayden New York: Penguin Random House, 2019 Bluster: Donald Trump’s War on Terror Peter R. Neumann […]

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