USA Today published in in-depth piece on the matter and it brought about more questions than answers. Let us first get down to brass tax— it costs the United States Government on average $50,000 per wiretap when everything is said in done. Take a sec
The lone individual is seldom given credit as a shaper and mover of great historical events; and this is particularly true when that individual is no famous statesman or military hero, nor leader of a mass movement, but simply a little-known person p
The world’s biggest banks are working with one another and police to gather intelligence as protesters try to rejuvenate the Occupy Wall Street movement with May demonstrations.
In an unprecedented collaboration between Anonymous and WikiLeaks, the secret spilling site began leaking Sunday night portions of a massive trove of e-mails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor that Anonymous obtained by hacking the company
Compiled from three NBC 5 news reports, Dallas: Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission undercover agents entered 36 nightclubs where they shared tables with suspected drunks and covertly monitored bartenders for over-serving patrons.
President-Elect Obama’s advisors feared in 2008 that authorities would oust him in a coup and that Republicans would block his policy agenda if he prosecuted Bush-era war crimes, according to a law school dean who served as one of Obama’s top transit
Continuing its "AntiSec" activities against corporate and government targets, hacking collective Anonymous broke into a server operated by Booz-Allen on Monday, disclosing log-in credentials including 90,000 military email addresses and passwords.
The billions wasted on Trailblazer are a fraction of massively bloated intelligence budget - of which NSA makes up a third. The Washington Post's Top Secret America profiled how, post-9/11, the intelligence industrial complex exploded, growing into s
Several news agencies and media outlets report that a Israeli-developed computer virus has threatened to destroy the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran. The Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom claims the statements are false, but the so-called rumor
...the facility's role in aggregating and verifying dizzying volumes of data for the intelligence community has already earned it the nickname "Spy Center."
The CIA has recently released the “family jewels” that detail a number of operations in which the Company offended societal norms or actually violated laws. Even then, it appears to be a highly censored gloss on known ancient surreptitious actions. C
New article - Tired of the people who seem to not give a damn if the terrorists walk in and kill you and yours? Read this for a wake up call that will have your fist pumping in agreement. Time to WAKE UP AND SCREAM at these people!
In a nondescript suite of government offices not far from the Pentagon, nearly 120 intelligence analysts, FBI agents, and others are at work—24 hours a day, seven days a week—on the frontlines of the government’s secret war against WikiLeaks.
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“Top Secret America”—the sprawling, often dysfunctional surveillance-industrial complex that has ballooned into a $75 billion cash cow for private contractors since the 9/11 attacks. It was a disturbing portrait of chaos and inefficiency in the secto
The solutions for the information technology enterprise multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a one-year base period of performance, four one-year options, and a ceiling value of $6.6 billion for all awardees.
U.S. spy agencies, the State Department and the White House had a collective panic attack Friday over a new Washington Post exposé on the intelligence-industrial complex. Reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin let it drop Monday morning.
A recent exposé in the Washington Post shows that if you have a security clearance and are comfortable being part of a lucrative “self-licking ice cream cone” then the “war on terror” is definitely for you!
In the spring of 2010, one of the largest instant messaging services in the world, ICQ, was purchased by "Digital Sky Technologies," the largest Internet investment company in Russia. AOL reportedly sold the instant messaging service to Digital Sk
The Washington Post showered its readers with 20,000 words, hundreds of statistics, and dozens of pie-charts - not to mention a database of the 1,931 contractors doing top-secret work for the government - that paint a dazzling, mind-boggling picture.
Unisys will compete for a slice of a $1 billion federal intelligence contract, the information technology company said Thursday. Unisys and a dozen other companies will compete on task orders for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
Despite what might you may read in the Washington Post this week, it ain’t exactly breaking news that contractors are performing more and more of America’s intelligence work. What’s interesting is how this came to be — and what to do about it.
"Top Secret America" has done a superb job of charting an intelligence community so big and unwieldy, and so layered with redundant operations, that it is "a hidden world, growing beyond control."
The network is incomprehensively vast, spanning nearly 1,300 government organizations and 2,000 private companies...the human instinct to seek status also fed the intelligence networks’ unprecedented bloat. “"If he has one, then I have to have one.’
Things are definitely getting out of hand when you start reading articles like this – the City of Poway in California is going to introduce biometric scans of skaters thumbs to allow or disallow entry into the skate park.
Did you see 60 Minutes last night? The first story was about how vulnerable our government’s computer systems are and our utility companies and our banks. All these have been hacked into or otherwise compromised. “Otherwise” being electronic componen
States collect far more information about students than necessary and fail to take steps to protect their privacy. The dossiers include Social Security numbers, poverty data, health information and disciplinary incidents.