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Is the Net’s popular encyclopedia marred by disinformation?
Ludwig De BraeckeleerWhile researching my next article about the Lockerbie bombing, I witnessed an incident that made me wonder whether intelligence agents had infiltrated Wikipedia.Anyone who knows the universal success of Wikipedia will immediately grasp the importance of the issue. The fact that most Internet search engines, such as Google, give Wikipedia articles top ranking only raises the stakes to a higher level.

The Incident

In the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, the finger of suspicion quickly pointed to a Syria-based Palestinian organization — the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command (PFLP-GC) — hired by Iran. The terrorist group was created by a former Syrian army captain, Ahmed Jibril, who broke away from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1968. Continue reading »

By Mike O’Sullivan
San Francisco
28 July 2007
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Friday, and the two called for stepped-up global action on climate change. Mike O’Sullivan reports from San Francisco, the U.N. official praised the West Coast governor for his state’s aggressive role in tackling the issue. Continue reading »

Seeks To “Modernize” Wiretapping To Match New Technologies; Critics Warn Of Unchecked Privacy Invasion

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2007 (AP / CBS)

“The only thing more outrageous than the administration’s call for even more unfettered power is a Congress that would consider giving it to them.”
Caroline Fredrickson, ACLU

(CBS/AP) In the midst of a festering public scandal surrounding the administration’s secret wiretapping program and the attorney general’s efforts to have it extended, President George W. Bush is calling on Congress to expand the law governing the issuance of warrants to intelligence agencies for surveillance. Continue reading »

TPM Muckraker.com | July 27, 2007
Spencer Ackerman and Paul Kiel

Alberto Gonzales’ testimony that there was “no serious disagreement” within the Bush Administration about the NSA warrantless surveillance program has left senators sputtering and fulminating about the attorney general’s apparent prevarications. But a closer examination of Gonzales’ testimony and other public statements from the Administration suggest that there may be a method to the madness.

There’s a lot of evidence to suggest that Gonzales’s careful, repeated phrasing to the Senate that he will only discuss the program that “the president described” was deliberate, part of a concerted administration-wide strategy to conceal from the public the very broad scope of that initial program. When, for the first time, Program X (as we’ll call it, for convenience’s sake) became known to senior Justice Department officials who were not its original architects, those officials — James Comey and Jack Goldsmith, principally — balked at its continuation. They did not back down until the program had undergone as-yet-unspecified but apparently significant revisions. But when President Bush announced what he would call the “Terrorist Surveillance Program’ in December 2005, he left the clear impression that the program had always functioned the same way since its 2001 inception. Continue reading »

E.J. MONTINI
REPUBLIC COLUMNIST

To the major television networks, newspapers and radio stations, reports Monday that a retired three-star general may be demoted, and others punished, for spreading misinformation about the death of Pat Tillman was a major news event.

To Tillman’s mom, “It’s a complete donkey show.”

I reached Mary Tillman on Thursday afternoon, after she and the rest of the family learned about the possible punishments. She described it as only the latest attempt by the military and the Bush administration to make sure that the buck stops before it gets to the proper destination: the White House. Continue reading »

By Marcin Grajewski
Reuters

BRUSSELS

Dissident U.S. intelligence officers angry at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped a European probe uncover details of secret CIA prisons in Europe, the top investigator said on Tuesday.

Swiss Senator Dick Marty, author of a Council of Europe report on the jails, said senior CIA officials disapproved of Rumsfeld’s methods in hunting down terrorist suspects, and had agreed to talk to him on condition of anonymity.

“There were huge conflicts between the CIA and Rumsfeld. Many leading figures in the CIA did not accept these methods at all,” Marty told European Parliament committees, defending his work against complaints it was based on unnamed sources.

The report issued last month said the Central Intelligence Agency ran secret jails in Poland and Romania, with the complicity of those governments, and transported terrorist suspects across Europe in secret flights. Continue reading »

by Adam Thomas

US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children at the end of a Senate hearing for which civil liberties groups were not invited. Continue reading »

NOTE: Please don’t allow the real terrorists to silence this message by using words like “anti-semitic”. The real victims of this type of behavior are the Jewish citizens whose country is being destroyed by the crooks running their country- much like our own.

Fox News: Israeli Spyring

May 28, 2003 - 11:36

It turns out that Israel has had a potential wiretap on every phone in America for years, along with the ability to monitor and record who any person is calling, anywhere in America; information of great value even if one does not listen to the calls themselves. Amdocs, Inc., the company which subcontracts billing and directory services for phone companies around the world, including 90 percent of American phone companies, is owned by Israeli interests. Yet another company, Comverse Infosys, is suspected of having built a “back door” into the equipment permanently installed into the phone system that allows instant eavesdropping by law enforcement agencies on any phone in America. This includes yours. Continue reading »

Proposes building network of US informants
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, July 26, 2007

In a move startlingly similar to that of the East German government during the Cold war, the FBI wants to recruit thousands of covert informants in the US and work with the CIA to train them in an effort to expand and adopt more aggressive intelligence capabilities. Continue reading »

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