[…] the CIA. The FBI ‘is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens’. Now the question one has to inevitably ask oneself is when has the FBI not played this role? To be fair, […]
[PDF file]: […] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.12 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]
[…] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.13 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]
[PDF file]: […] Daniel Schorr in the Village Voice newspaper. Lest we forget, Church was marginalized, lost his Senate seat to a well-funded campaign, and, as we know, the domestic surveillance by the CIA and NSA and whoever else continued unchecked, at least until the Snowden revelations. Church’s committee was regularly lied to by its witnesses and […]
[…] our environment, with the risk of adverse impacts on flora and fauna. 5. 5G will increase energy consumption. 6. 5G will usher in a regime of total surveillance. 7. 5G will create an insatiable need for rare earth elements and more toxic e-waste. 8. 5G from space is a tragedy of the cosmic commons. […]
[…] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.13 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]
[PDF file]: […] Hank Greenspun at the Las Vegas Sun. (Kalmbach testimony, 3 HJC 615-617). O’Brien later observed, ‘As the target of Watergate, I was at various times placed under surveillance, my telephones were wiretapped, my files were ransacked. But for me the stunning manipulation of the power of the IRS can be considered the most shocking […]
[PDF file]: […] one story caught my eye. In the Daily Express (12 April) James Fielding began his story, headlined ‘MI6 covered up historic child sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance operation’, with this: ‘MI6 infiltrated the Kincora boys’ home in east Belfast to spy on William McGrath’.1 He continued: ‘The ex-intelligence officer said MI6 was ordered […]
[…] pro Russia? https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/07/31/without-integrity-the-debunking-ofthe-metadata-debunkers/ Duncan Campbell William Binney and the whole DNC hacked thing. Boy this is complex – beyond my ken. ……… Barton Gellman on Snowden and surveillance https://www.theatlantic.com/ magazine/archive/2020/06/edward-snowden-operation-firstfruits/610573/? utm_source=digg The Channel 4 News chief who sparked an impartiality row with No 10 by calling Boris John a “known liar” is to step […]
[PDF file]: […] large hay stack.6 On the other hand, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital campaign organisation reported in 2021: Almost one year after EFF called on Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring to encrypt footage end-to-end, it appears they are starting to make this necessary change. This call was a response to a number of […]
