Free Talk Live - Intelligence / Espionage

Utah Springs Surprise Tax on Massive NSA Data Center

kelvin — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:28:44 +0000

Ha-Ha
The National Security Agency should complete construction of its 1 million square foot data center near Bluffdale, Utah, this year. As Wired first reported last year, its purpose is to intercept, analyze and store data passing through both domestic and foreign communications networks — including the e-mails, phone calls and Google search history of U.S. citizens.

UK: Police spies stole identities of dead children

rawsteel — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:18:16 +0000

Britain's largest police force stole the identities of an estimated 80 dead children and issued fake passports in their names for use by undercover police officers.

Air Force Drowning in Drone Footage Hires ESPN Gameday Experts

snowdog2012 — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:43:52 +0000

The Air Force has enlisted the help of ESPN in order to go through and perform a thorough analysis on the copious amounts of video footage recorded from drone missions. Considering how the total number of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) there are scouring the world, with a ton of footage being transmitted back to base in real-time, the Air Force has an unenviable task of poring over the data.

ESPN’s role would see them fall back on their expertise in sorting through the large amounts of game footage every single day.

Vast New Spying Program Was Started in Secret on a Bogus Pretext

Jking8767 — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:12:29 +0000

The Wall Street Journal today published an in-depth review of a new, relatively unknown program run by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Although we have been warning about the dangers of the program for months, and I testified before Congress about the issue in July, the Journal’s story conveys how controversial the program was even inside the government. It also describes the broad scope of new authority the government is granting itself.

The dangers of N.S.A. domestic spying

snowdog2012 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:16:58 +0000

William Binney is among a group of N.S.A. whistle-blowers, including Thomas A. Drake, who have each risked everything — their freedom, livelihoods and personal relationships — to warn Americans about the dangers of N.S.A. domestic spying; A top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data.

How The NYPD Overstated Their Counterterrorism Record

ecigarettes — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:04:56 +0000

The NYPD is regularly held up as one of the most sophisticated and significant counterterrorism operations in the country. As evidence of the NYPD's excellence, the department, its allies and the media have repeatedly said the department has thwarted or helped thwart 14 terrorist plots against New York since Sept 11.

Judge keeps CIA volume on Bay of Pigs secret

edmnd — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:23:37 +0000

(AP) WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ruled that a final volume of the CIA's three-decade-old history on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba can remain shrouded in secrecy because it is a draft, not a finished product.