Archive for the 'Intelligence' Category

None Dare Call It Democracy.

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

NSA Spying Part of Broader Effort
Intelligence Chief Says Bush Authorized Secret Activities Under One Order
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 1, 2007; A01
The Bush administration’s chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001. The disclosure makes clear that a […]

What would James Jesus Angleton do?

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

U.S. Intel Can’t Keep Up With New Technology
Newsweek
Aug. 6, 2007 issue - Six years after 9/11 , U.S. intel officials are complaining about the emergence of a major “gap” in their ability to secretly eavesdrop on suspected terrorist plotters.
In a series of increasingly anxious pleas to Congress, intel “czar” Mike McConnell has argued that the […]

So that’s the way the boys foiled the system. I saw one of those at Brookstone.

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

In Intelligence World, A Mute Watchdog
Panel Reported No Violations for Five Years
By John Solomon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 15, 2007; A03
An independent oversight board created to identify intelligence abuses after the CIA scandals of the 1970s did not send any reports to the attorney general of legal violations during the first 5 1/2 years of […]