The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called “signature reduction.”…
The Spook to Bellingcat Pipeline: How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press…
For a self-proclaimed citizen journalism outfit, an alarming number of Bellingcat’s staff and contributors come from highly suspect backgrounds, including high-level positions in military and intelligence agencies…
DOJ Inspector General Finds ‘Numerous Issues’ with FBI Management of Secret Sources…
A newly released assessment from the Justice Department watchdog found “numerous issues” related to the FBI’s validation processes for secret sources. The audit, published Tuesday by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, comes amid intense scrutiny of the Justice Department’s and FBI’s actions during the 2016 election. Multiple confidential human sources were used in the counterintelligence investigation […]
How a Russian Firm Helped Catch an Alleged NSA Data Thief…
The 2016 arrest of a former National Security Agency contractor charged with a massive theft of classified data began with an unlikely source: a tip from a Russian cybersecurity firm that the U.S. government has called a threat to the country. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab turned Harold T. Martin III in to the NSA after receiving […]
How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies by Zach Dorfman…
In the fall of 1989, during the Cold War’s wan and washed-out final months, the Berlin Wall was crumbling—and so was San Francisco. The powerful Loma Prieta earthquake, the most destructive to hit the region in more than 80 years, felled entire apartment buildings. Freeway overpasses shuddered and collapsed, swallowing cars like a sandpit. Sixty-three […]
U.S. Probes Chinese Ownership of CIA-Linked Insurance Company…
Wright USA, was quietly acquired late last year by Fosun Group, a Shanghai-based conglomerate led by Guo Guangchang, a billionaire known as “China’s Warren Buffett”…
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