Showing posts with label documents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label documents. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Documents Show Admin Offered Access to #Osama Filmmakers

Judicial Watch Obtains DOD and CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Raid Filmmakers, Kathryn Bigelow of 'Hurt Locker' Fame*
Documents Show Admin Offered Access to Osama Filmmakers
from cnn: Newly released documents have reignited the debate in Washington over whether Obama administration officials granted too much access to filmmakers making a movie about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden -- and whether national security was compromised in the process. The documents show, for example, that a defense official offered the filmmakers access to a planner from SEAL Team Six, the super-secret special ops division that successfully executed the high-stakes raid in Pakistan last year. It is not clear if any such access eventually took place. But according to a transcript from the meeting, on July 14 of last year, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers told screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow that the defense department would offer up a plum interview. "They'll make a guy available who was involved from the beginning as a planner; a SEAL Team 6 Operator and Commander," Vickers said, according to the transcript. The name of that man is blacked out in the transcript that was released, and Vickers tells the filmmakers not to reveal the man's identity.
Filmmakers had access to Osama bin Laden intelligence, documents show*

Related Video: Osama DNA Doctor Gets 33yrs In Pakistan Prison

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

homeland security testing 'pre-crime' detection technology

homeland security testing 'pre-crime' detection technologyfrom allgov: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been secretly working on technology that can tip off law enforcement about those planning to commit a crime. Part profiling, part advanced mathematics, the Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) is described as a “pre-crime” system by DHS. The program uses ethnicity, gender, breathing, eye tracking and heart rate to formulate a system for spotting criminals before they strike. According to the official description, the prototype contains “a suite of real-time, non-invasive sensor technologies to detect cues indicative of mal-intent (the intent or desire to cause harm).” A classified DHS document reportedly indicated that the controversial idea is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily. If the technology proves reliable, the government might try using it at airport checkpoints, border crossings, sea ports or major sporting events.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

putin wants 'eurasian union' to compete with US & european union

putin wants 'eurasian union' to compete with US & european unionfrom endthelie.com: Vladimir Putin recently detailed his plan to build a Eurasian Union somewhat reminiscent of the USSR in the Izvestia newspaper which he aims to be able to compete with the European Union and the United States. Putin said, “We are talking about a model of a powerful supranational union capable of becoming one of the poles in the modern world.” Putin cites the “great inheritance form the Soviet Union” as a foundation for the construction of a wholly new entity to challenge European and American dominance, although he claims that he is not aiming to create the USSR.

related update: leaked document reveals russia plans to 'eliminate' enemies overseas; 'gave agents licence to kill'*

Saturday, May 21, 2011

fbi, cia ordered to release docs in mysterious death of kenney trentadue

fbi, cia ordered to release docs in mysterious death of kenney trentaduefrom allgov: Sixteen years after the death of convicted felon Kenney Trentadue, the FBI and CIA have been ordered to turn over documents about the man whose family believes he was wrongfully murdered by the federal government after the Oklahoma City bombing. Trentadue’s brother, attorney Jesse Trentadue, has sought information from the federal agencies for five years, filing multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The government continued to avoid turning over records to Jesse Trentadue, leading to his filing a lawsuit in a Utah federal court.

requiem for the suicided: kenneth trentadue

Monday, November 29, 2010

cablegate: wikileaks unveils secret state dept cables

cablegate: secret US diplomatic cables released by wikileaks
cablegate: wikileaks unveils secret state dept cablesfrom washington post: A vast treasure trove of secret State Department cables obtained by the Web site WikiLeaks has exposed the inner workings of U.S. diplomacy, as well as bluntly candid assessments by American diplomats, according to news organizations granted advance access to the more than 250,000 confidential documents. The documents suggest U.S. diplomats were ordered to engage in low-level spying by obtaining foreign diplomats' personal information, such as frequent-flier and credit card numbers, presumably to better track their movements. The cables also expose the sensitive diplomacy involved in winning sanctions against Iran; U.S. officials' attempts to remove highly enriched uranium from Pakistan; and new information on how North Korea is believed to have aided Tehran's weaponry program, giving it advanced missiles that could allow it to strike Moscow and major Western European cities.

related wikileaks updates:
wikileaks 'cablegate' site hit by powerful cyberattack*
fmr pakistani general: cia, mossad behind wikileaks reports*
assange says hillary clinton 'should resign'*
amazon to stop hosting wikileaks*
interpol puts 'red notice' on assange, calls for his arrest*
police close in on assange*
lieberman introduces anti-wikileaks legislation*
next wikileak to target major US financial institutions*

related geopolitikal updates:
nuclear scientist killed in tehran was iran's top stuxnet expert*
nigeria to charge dick cheney in pipeline bribery case*
video: south admits firing first shells in row with north korea*

Monday, April 12, 2010

unearthed document ties kissinger to 1976 car bombing in dc

kissinger effectively gave go-ahead for '76 terror attack
from national security archive: Only five days before a car-bomb planted by agents of the Pinochet regime rocked downtown Washington D.C. on September 21, 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rescinded instructions sent to, but never implemented by, U.S. ambassadors in the Southern Cone to warn military leaders there against orchestrating "a series of international murders," declassified documents obtained and posted by the National Security Archive revealed today.

The Secretary "has instructed that no further action be taken on this matter," stated a September 16, 1976, cable sent from Lusaka (where Kissinger was traveling) to his assistant secretary of state for Inter-American affairs, Harry Shlaudeman. The instructions effectively ended efforts by senior State Department officials to deliver a diplomatic demarche, approved by Kissinger only three weeks earlier, to express "our deep concern" over "plans for the assassination of subversives, politicians, and prominent figures both within the national borders of certain Southern Cone countries and abroad." Aimed at the heads of state of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, the demarche was never delivered.

"The September 16th cable is the missing piece of the historical puzzle on Kissinger's role in the action, and inaction, of the U.S. government after learning of Condor assassination plots," according to Peter Kornbluh, the Archive's senior analyst on Chile and author of the book, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. "We know now what happened: The State Department initiated a timely effort to thwart a 'Murder Inc' in the Southern Cone, and Kissinger, without explanation, aborted it," Kornbluh said. "The Kissinger cancellation on warning the Condor nations prevented the delivery of a diplomatic protest that conceivably could have deterred an act of terrorism in Washington D.C."

Kissinger's September 16 instructions responded to an August 30, 1976 secret memoranda from Shlaudeman, titled "Operation Condor," that advised him: "what we are trying to head off is a series of international murders that could do serious damage to the international status and reputation of the countries involved." After receiving Kissinger's orders, on September 20, Shlaudeman directed his deputy, William Luers, to "instruct the [U.S.] ambassadors to take no further action noting that there have been no reports in some weeks indicating an intention to activate the Condor scheme."

The next day, a massive car-bomb claimed the life of former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier and his 26-year old American colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, as they drove down Massachusetts Avenue in Washington D.C. The bombing remains the most infamous attack of "Condor" - a collaboration between the secret police services in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and several other Latin American military dictatorships, to track down and kill opponents of their regimes. Until 9/11, the Letelier-Moffitt assassination was known as the most significant act of international terrorism ever committed in the capital city of the United States.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

bush admin warned 9/11 commission about 'line' it 'should not cross'

bush admin warned 9/11 commission about 'line' it 'should not cross'from raw story: Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU.

The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet [1.9mb PDF]. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.

In the message, the officials denied the bipartisan commission's request to question terrorist detainees, informing its two senior-most members that doing so would "cross" a "line" and obstruct the administration's ability to protect the nation.

"In response to the Commission's expansive requests for access to secrets, the executive branch has provided such access in full cooperation," the letter read. "There is, however, a line that the Commission should not cross - the line separating the Commission's proper inquiry into the September 11, 2001 attacks from interference with the Government's ability to safeguard the national security, including protection of Americans from future terrorist attacks." ...

The letter can be found on page 26 of the ACLU's set of unveiled documents.


9/11 updates:
washington post publishes yukihisa fujita's rebuttal letter*
rahm emanuel helped gop sink 9/11 trial*
summer 2001: faa participates in exercise based around hijacking of boeing 767*
they could have stopped 9/11: coleen rowley on the moussaoui case
audio: coleen rowley on antiwar radio*
holder: osama never to be caught alive*
april gallop's case on 9/11-pentagon thrown out*
the 9/11 cat's out of the bag*
full el al flight took off on 9/11 from jfk to tel aviv?*
war games, blackwater, ksm - updates to the 9/11 timeline as of mar16*

Friday, December 11, 2009

from climategate to carbonhagen: massive newspurge

climategate: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation*
climategate: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generationthe day global warming stood still*
obama, maurice strong, al gore key players cashing in on chicago climate exchange*
climate change scientists threw away temperature data on warming*
bombshell un documents outline plan to use climategate crooks in 'end run' around national sovereignty*
dictatorial un crushes media freedom before copenhagen*
penn state will investigate 'climategate'*
climate researchers' stunning lack of integrity*
crichton warned of global warming's dangerous parallels to eugenics*
earth could plunge into sudden ice age*
olbermann claims fox news made up climategate story*
rep issa: obama's refusal to investigate 'climategate' emails is 'unconscionable'*
from climategate to carbonhagen*

it's over, al gore*
it's over, al gorecopenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes & caviar wedges*
eyes of the world on copenhagen as climate summit opens*
corporate mockingbird media speaks with one-world voice on climate control*
video: overview of alternative copenhagen conferences*
the hypocritical road to copenhagen*
denmark does not include shipping industry when calculating annual carbon footprint*
the copenhagen cult, green religion & money grabs*
climate talk collapse better for planet: nasa's hansen*
globalist hypocrites arrive in carbonhagen for summit*
video: lord monckton on copenhagen & the fabricated climate scare*

big oil also behind copenhagen climate scam*
big oil also behind copenhagen climate scamcopenhagen opens with propaganda film of future children facing apocalypse*
woman who invented credit default swaps is a key architect of carbon derivatives at center of cap & trade*
video: hookers descend on copenhagen*
cap & trade is a goldman sachs & enron scam*
enviroment/eugenics quotes*
the left fell into the climate morass*
copenhagen con men launch global carbon tax heist*
independent journalists denied access to copenhagen climate talks*
video: global warming, environmentalism, genocide & eugenics*
video: climate atheists say cop15 is political church, not scientific*
video: gore says climategate emails 'taken out of context'*
copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'danish text' leak*
video: lord monckton at alternative copenhagen conference*
rohrabacher: 'this is about global government... we must fight the globalist clique!'*
video: fred singer at alternative copenhagen conference*
gore’s current tv website blocks 'climategate' searches*
saudi arabia calls for independent investigation into climategate*
cop15: a neo-colonial climate regime revealed*
3rd world under attack from genocidal climate change policy*
uk group proposes carbon offset scheme to stop poor from breeding*
not hottest, not heating*
danish unofficial draft version of unccc treaty leaks, g77 reacts sharply*
organized crime in charge of eu carbon trade, europol says*
video: carbon eugenics*
100s demanding globalist agenda arrested at copenhagen*
un security stops journalist's questions about climategate*
monckton: obama will defy congress by signing executive order on copenhagen*
copenhagen could 'destroy millions of american jobs'*
the fiction of climate science*
climate colonialism: soros wants poorer nations to take on green debt*
copenhagen climate change summit in deadlock over rival texts*

let's end on a fitting note w/ scott walker's copenhagen

Thursday, December 03, 2009

new world next week - dec3


December arrives with a lot of news to cover on this latest episode of New World Next Week. The official announcement of another Afghanisurge provides the backdrop for stories about explosive documents; some of which have been leaked & others that will probably remain classified. James Corbett of CorbettReport.com & James Evan Pilato of MediaMonarchy.com also go over the latest on the Obamessiah, Osama dying & the continuing Climategate scandal.
Story#1: Leaked documents reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq invasion
Obamessiah: More Troops, More Secrecy, Less Change!
NSPD-9: Combating Terrorism

Story#2: Dem Senate Report Says Rumsfeld & Franks Let Osama Escape
Rush Limbaugh admits he believes Osama bin Laden is dead
Former CIA Operative Robert Baer: 'Of Course Bin Laden Is Dead'

Story#3: Obama Refuses to Order Release of Decades-Old Intel Docs
SCOTUS Lets Pentagon Keep Detainee Photos Secret

Climategate Updates: Climate Change Ringleader Phil Jones to Step Down
Australian Senate defeats carbon trading bill
Operation: Arrest the Crimatologists
And as always, please support James Evan Pilato and his incredible work by subscribing to the MediaMonarchy.com podcast here ... For more news & information, visit The Corbett Report

previous episode: new world next week - nov28

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

obamessiah: more troops, more secrecy, less change!

obamessiah: more troops, more secrecy, less change!from latimes: President Obama plans to send 30,000 to 35,000 additional soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Monday, the largest single U.S. deployment since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The additional troops, Obama's second major escalation of the conflict this year, will bring the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan to about 100,000. But even as he dramatically escalates the war, Obama is expected to emphasize that there are limits to the length of U.S. military involvement in the region, White House officials said, though he is not prepared to set concrete deadlines for withdrawal. Obama will announce his newest Afghan strategy in a televised speech tonight before cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

video: soldiers confident afghanisurge will work
(no, seriously, this time will make a difference)



related: obama's blurry vision for afghanistan, obama's speech at west point: what he dare not tell us & cindy sheehan: you get what you vote for!

obama refuses to order release of decades-old intel docs
from allgov: Millions of secret government documents are scheduled to be declassified at the end of this year—unless President Barack Obama extends the deadline like his predecessors have done. Reports out of Washington indicate the White House is hurriedly preparing an executive order that will postpone the classified material from being revealed in order to assuage various departments unwilling to part with their secrets. Dating from World War II to the early 1980s, the documents cover foreign relations, spy operations and military activities that have remained hidden from the public. Agencies currently affected by the secret material include the CIA and the National Security Agency, as well as the departments of Justice, State, Defense, and Energy. Under current law, classified material involving more than one agency and that is 25 years old or more is supposed to be automatically released. If President Obama issues his executive order, it will mark the third time the deadline has been extended. President Bill Clinton did so in 2000 and President George W. Bush in 2003. Steven Aftergood, a specialist on government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, wrote on the Secrecy News blog, “If the ‘automatic declassification’ procedures that were prescribed in prior executive orders are not ‘automatic’ after all, and if binding deadlines can be extended more or less at will, then any new declassification requirements in the Obama order will be similarly subject to doubt or defiance.”

scotus lets pentagon keep detainee photos secret
from csmonitor: The Supreme Court Monday threw out a federal appeals court ruling requiring the release of photos that allegedly show abuse of US-held detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. The court cited a new law that allows the Defense Secretary to withhold such photos.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

history/mystery: jfk, cia, stasi & simon mann

lbj on jfk assassination: "it’s all a conspiracy"
lbj on jfk assassination: 'it’s all a conspiracy'from huffington post: This month will mark the 46th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A recently declassified oral history by Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, President Kennedy's military aide on the Dallas trip, sheds new light on the critical hours after the shooting. McHugh makes startling claims about Lyndon Johnson's behavior in the wake of the assassination.

The interview with McHugh, originally conducted for the John F. Kennedy Library in 1978, remained closed for 31 years. It was finally declassified in the spring of 2009. I just happened to be working at the Kennedy Library on the day the interview was opened to the public and have used it for the first time in my new book, The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After...

McHugh, like most members of the Kennedy entourage, did not know that Johnson was onboard. They believed that the new president was on his own plane flying back to Washington. If LBJ was on the plane, McHugh wanted to see for himself. Since he had not seen Johnson in the aisle -- and at 6'4" Johnson would be tough to miss -- McHugh assumed that he must then be in the bedroom. When he checked there Johnson was nowhere to be seen. The only place on the plane he had not inspected was the bathroom in the presidential bedroom.

What McHugh claimed to have witnessed next was shocking. "I walked in the toilet, in the powder room, and there he was hiding, with the curtain closed," McHugh recalled. He claimed that LBJ was crying, "They're going to get us all. It's a plot. It's a plot. It's going to get us all.'" According to the General, Johnson "was hysterical, sitting down on the john there alone in this thing."


top 10 weirdest cia programs

'puzzlers' reassemble shredded stasi files, bit by bit
from latimes: East German documents provide a crucial piece of history, supporters of the project say, but putting them back together could take hundreds of years. A computerized system would help, but it's costly.

lockerbie evidence 'move' claims

uk mercenary simon mann receives presidential pardon
from telegraph: British mercenary Simon Mann, who was jailed for 34 years in Equatorial Guinea for plotting to overthrow the Government, has been granted a presidential pardon on humanitarian grounds.

11/5 update:
dartmouth scientist says oswald rifle photo real

from huffpo: The backyard photo of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle and Marxist newspaper was called a fake by Oswald when he was interrogated by Dallas police after his arrest. The image had fueled conspiracy theorists who said the image must have been faked because of the unusual shadows. Now, Dartmouth Professor Hany Farid, a computer scientist and authority on forensic imaging, has determined definitively that the image is, indeed, real. In this YouTube video, he demonstrates how three dimensional modeling was used in reaching his conclusion. Professor Farid's finding will be published in the peer-reviewed academic journal "Perception". Here is the AP report.


hat worn by jack ruby when he killed lee harvey oswald to be sold*
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