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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
NSA Can "Google Search" All E-mails Transmitted in America
From The New Yorker
Binney, for his part, believes that the agency now stores copies of all e-mails transmitted in America, in case the government wants to retrieve the details later. In the past few years, the N.S.A. has built enormous electronic-storage facilities in Texas and Utah. Binney says that an N.S.A. e-mail database can be searched with “dictionary selection,” in the manner of Google. After 9/11, he says, “General Hayden reassured everyone that the N.S.A. didn’t put out dragnets, and that was true. It had no need—it was getting every fish in the sea.”
Binney, for his part, believes that the agency now stores copies of all e-mails transmitted in America, in case the government wants to retrieve the details later. In the past few years, the N.S.A. has built enormous electronic-storage facilities in Texas and Utah. Binney says that an N.S.A. e-mail database can be searched with “dictionary selection,” in the manner of Google. After 9/11, he says, “General Hayden reassured everyone that the N.S.A. didn’t put out dragnets, and that was true. It had no need—it was getting every fish in the sea.”
Friday, September 3, 2010
Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purchases of child pornography
Defense staffers, NSA contractors, and even a program manager at DARPA...part of hundreds of Defense Department employees who "used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations...Astonishingly, nine of those had "Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information" security clearances, meaning they had access to the nation's most sensitive secrets. All told, 76 of the individuals had Secret or higher clearances."
The Pentagon only succeeded in prosecuting a handful.
From Yahoo.
...the Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) cross-checked the ICE list against military databases to come up with a list of Defense employees and contractors who appeared to be guilty of purchasing child pornography. The names included staffers for the secretary of defense, contractors for the ultra-secretive National Security Agency, and a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. But the DCIS opened investigations into only 20 percent of the individuals identified, and succeeded in prosecuting just a handful...
Investigative Documents...here and here.
The Pentagon only succeeded in prosecuting a handful.
From Yahoo.
...the Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) cross-checked the ICE list against military databases to come up with a list of Defense employees and contractors who appeared to be guilty of purchasing child pornography. The names included staffers for the secretary of defense, contractors for the ultra-secretive National Security Agency, and a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. But the DCIS opened investigations into only 20 percent of the individuals identified, and succeeded in prosecuting just a handful...
Investigative Documents...here and here.
Friday, July 16, 2010
NSA Falsified Intercepted Communications in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
From Cryptogon.
In an echo of the debates over the discredited intelligence that helped make the case for the war in Iraq, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday released more than 1,100 pages of previously classified Vietnam-era transcripts that show senators of the time sharply questioning whether they had been deceived by the White House and the Pentagon over the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident.
“If this country has been misled, if this committee, this Congress, has been misled by pretext into a war in which thousands of young men have died, and many more thousands have been crippled for life, and out of which their country has lost prestige, moral position in the world, the consequences are very great,” Senator Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee, the father of the future vice president, said in March 1968 in a closed session of the Foreign Relations Committee.
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Robert J. Hanyok, a retired National Security Agency historian, said Wednesday in an interview that “there were doubts, but nobody wanted to follow up on the doubts,” perhaps because “they felt they’d gone too far down the road.”
Mr. Hanyok concluded in 2001 that N.S.A. officers had deliberately falsified intercepted communications in the incident to make it look like the attack on Aug. 4, 1964, had occurred, although he said they acted not out of political motives but to cover up earlier errors.
Many historians say that President Johnson might have found reason to escalate military action against North Vietnam even without the Tonkin Gulf crisis, and that he apparently had his own doubts. Historians note that a few days after the supposed attack he told George W. Ball, the under secretary of state, “Hell, those dumb, stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish!”
In an echo of the debates over the discredited intelligence that helped make the case for the war in Iraq, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday released more than 1,100 pages of previously classified Vietnam-era transcripts that show senators of the time sharply questioning whether they had been deceived by the White House and the Pentagon over the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident.
“If this country has been misled, if this committee, this Congress, has been misled by pretext into a war in which thousands of young men have died, and many more thousands have been crippled for life, and out of which their country has lost prestige, moral position in the world, the consequences are very great,” Senator Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee, the father of the future vice president, said in March 1968 in a closed session of the Foreign Relations Committee.
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Robert J. Hanyok, a retired National Security Agency historian, said Wednesday in an interview that “there were doubts, but nobody wanted to follow up on the doubts,” perhaps because “they felt they’d gone too far down the road.”
Mr. Hanyok concluded in 2001 that N.S.A. officers had deliberately falsified intercepted communications in the incident to make it look like the attack on Aug. 4, 1964, had occurred, although he said they acted not out of political motives but to cover up earlier errors.
Many historians say that President Johnson might have found reason to escalate military action against North Vietnam even without the Tonkin Gulf crisis, and that he apparently had his own doubts. Historians note that a few days after the supposed attack he told George W. Ball, the under secretary of state, “Hell, those dumb, stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish!”
Sunday, June 13, 2010
"The place is almost completely corrupted."
The quote above comes from Tom Drake, NSA employee, and the place he is referring to is the NSA itself. The quote comes from the third page of a New York Times article, Obama Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press, which discusses how the Obama administration is aggressively seeking to punish whistleblowers like Mr. Drake who voice their criticisms of government agencies to the press.
The article also mentions the competition between two surveillance projects, an older and allegedly more effective one entitled ThinThread, and a later faulty but implemented one entitled Trailblazer.
An article in Common Dreams, NSA Killed System That Sifted Phone Data Legally, describes the shelving of the ThinThread computer program which protected U.S. citizens privacy through encryption while according to testimony at the 9/11 Commission, also "could have identified the hijackers had it been in place before the attacks, according to an intelligence expert close to the commission."
Update: Copies of the articles in The Baltimore Sun which created much of the controversy can be found here on DOD Leaks.
The article also mentions the competition between two surveillance projects, an older and allegedly more effective one entitled ThinThread, and a later faulty but implemented one entitled Trailblazer.
An article in Common Dreams, NSA Killed System That Sifted Phone Data Legally, describes the shelving of the ThinThread computer program which protected U.S. citizens privacy through encryption while according to testimony at the 9/11 Commission, also "could have identified the hijackers had it been in place before the attacks, according to an intelligence expert close to the commission."
Update: Copies of the articles in The Baltimore Sun which created much of the controversy can be found here on DOD Leaks.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Joseph Andrew Stack Had 9/11, NSA, and Homeland Security Related Defense Contractor Clients
(Updated 24/2/10)
The client list from the software programmer believed to have crashed his plane into the Echelon* building in Austin Texas reads like a guidebook to defense contractors with connections to 9/11, NSA and Homeland Security.
The FBI had his webpage removed (the screen message previously said that the FBI had it removed) from the internet, but of course the client list from the webpage has been archived. As first discovered by Cryptogon, the client list has corporations on it such as Interstate Electronics Corporation, which needed Mr. Stack's help on developing a GPS-based Fight Management System of all things. IEC is a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 which is a defence contractor with obvious Homeland Security and NSA connections. There is also this report from Wayne Madsen on Oped News of an L-3 consultant to the NSA who had watched a live feed of the first 9/11 plane impact as it happened. L-3 is included among corporations which were investigated by the SEC for unusual stock put-options in relation to 9/11.**
Cylink Corporation***, another on Mr. Stack's client list had as it's Chief Executive Officer, William P. Crowell who "came to Cylink from the National Security Agency, where he held a series of senior positions, including Deputy Director of Operations and the Deputy Director of the Agency. From 1989 to 1990, Crowell served as a vice president at Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation, now a subsidiary of Titan Systems, leading business development in space technology, signal processing and intelligence systems."
Hughes Aircraft, one of Stack's clients, developed the ground mission control segment of the Global Hawk. Another Stack client, Teledyne, is the prime contractor for the Global Hawk, and L-3 supplied its communications system.****
Other clients on the list such as DMC Stratex Networks, AEI Kongsberg and Sorrento Electronics appear also to be defense contractors and probably a closer examination of these and other corporations on Stack's client list will reveal more interesting details.
*Note: the name echelon itself refers to a "signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection and analysis network" coordinated by the NSA.
Update: see also Joe Stack co-owned hanger with Homeland Security Initiative Program Manager and Embedded Tenants
**As if that weren't enough, L-3 is among corporations cited by Elliot Spitzer as "having been used by Wall Street brokers in “pump and dump” schemes which cost unwary investors tens of millions of dollars" according to Mad Cow Morning News. Also from Mad Cow we learn that Titan Corporation, a subsidiary of L-3, invested in SkyWay Aircraft, a phony company according to Hospicker, whose DC9 was caught with 5.5 tons of cocaine in the Yucatan in 2006. The article also mentions SkyWay's connections to "military intelligence" and the Bush Family and their supporters. Another article from Mad Cow reveals as well the apparent involvment of other interesting Republican Party leaders. (In a later post it has also been revealed Joseph Stack apparently co-owned his hangar at the Georgetown Municipal Airport with someone with the same name as an L-3 executive working for Homeland Security in Austin)
The L-3 subsidiary which Stack worked for, Interstate Electronics Corporation, is chased by at least one story of corruption as well. An article in Defense Industry Daily explains that IEC supplied defective parts used in CSEL emergency radios to locate downed military pilots. Hopefully they were more careful when they had that service contract for the Trident II Missile.
***From Cryptome, "Cylink Corporation has made encryption security products for networking, for over 16 years. Those products are built by foreign nationals and used by businesses, banks and governments around the world, including in the United States. Cylink has managed to export product without United States restriction, including to embargoed nations."
****Hughes Aircraft is also tied by some to the death of Danny Casolaro. Also of interest, we learn from Kevin Ryan's article on 9/11 that the former President of Hughes Aircraft, James Abrahamson, became director of Stratesec (responsible for WTC security after '93) in December 1997.
The client list from the software programmer believed to have crashed his plane into the Echelon* building in Austin Texas reads like a guidebook to defense contractors with connections to 9/11, NSA and Homeland Security.
The FBI had his webpage removed (the screen message previously said that the FBI had it removed) from the internet, but of course the client list from the webpage has been archived. As first discovered by Cryptogon, the client list has corporations on it such as Interstate Electronics Corporation, which needed Mr. Stack's help on developing a GPS-based Fight Management System of all things. IEC is a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 which is a defence contractor with obvious Homeland Security and NSA connections. There is also this report from Wayne Madsen on Oped News of an L-3 consultant to the NSA who had watched a live feed of the first 9/11 plane impact as it happened. L-3 is included among corporations which were investigated by the SEC for unusual stock put-options in relation to 9/11.**
Cylink Corporation***, another on Mr. Stack's client list had as it's Chief Executive Officer, William P. Crowell who "came to Cylink from the National Security Agency, where he held a series of senior positions, including Deputy Director of Operations and the Deputy Director of the Agency. From 1989 to 1990, Crowell served as a vice president at Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation, now a subsidiary of Titan Systems, leading business development in space technology, signal processing and intelligence systems."
Hughes Aircraft, one of Stack's clients, developed the ground mission control segment of the Global Hawk. Another Stack client, Teledyne, is the prime contractor for the Global Hawk, and L-3 supplied its communications system.****
Other clients on the list such as DMC Stratex Networks, AEI Kongsberg and Sorrento Electronics appear also to be defense contractors and probably a closer examination of these and other corporations on Stack's client list will reveal more interesting details.
*Note: the name echelon itself refers to a "signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection and analysis network" coordinated by the NSA.
Update: see also Joe Stack co-owned hanger with Homeland Security Initiative Program Manager and Embedded Tenants
**As if that weren't enough, L-3 is among corporations cited by Elliot Spitzer as "having been used by Wall Street brokers in “pump and dump” schemes which cost unwary investors tens of millions of dollars" according to Mad Cow Morning News. Also from Mad Cow we learn that Titan Corporation, a subsidiary of L-3, invested in SkyWay Aircraft, a phony company according to Hospicker, whose DC9 was caught with 5.5 tons of cocaine in the Yucatan in 2006. The article also mentions SkyWay's connections to "military intelligence" and the Bush Family and their supporters. Another article from Mad Cow reveals as well the apparent involvment of other interesting Republican Party leaders. (In a later post it has also been revealed Joseph Stack apparently co-owned his hangar at the Georgetown Municipal Airport with someone with the same name as an L-3 executive working for Homeland Security in Austin)
The L-3 subsidiary which Stack worked for, Interstate Electronics Corporation, is chased by at least one story of corruption as well. An article in Defense Industry Daily explains that IEC supplied defective parts used in CSEL emergency radios to locate downed military pilots. Hopefully they were more careful when they had that service contract for the Trident II Missile.
***From Cryptome, "Cylink Corporation has made encryption security products for networking, for over 16 years. Those products are built by foreign nationals and used by businesses, banks and governments around the world, including in the United States. Cylink has managed to export product without United States restriction, including to embargoed nations."
****Hughes Aircraft is also tied by some to the death of Danny Casolaro. Also of interest, we learn from Kevin Ryan's article on 9/11 that the former President of Hughes Aircraft, James Abrahamson, became director of Stratesec (responsible for WTC security after '93) in December 1997.
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