As the investigation into the frightful association between the NYPD and the CIA continues, it was discovered that several Muslim student organizations were among the groups infiltrated by this secretive intelligence squad. And this has Brooklyn College really pissed off, since it was taking place on their campus! Read more »
The AP released their report last month about the NYPD “trolling ethnic neighborhoods” and its close ties with the CIA. Now the the spy agency’s inspector genreal is figuring out whether or not they were breaking any laws by working in tandem with the the nation’s largest police force. Read more »
An investigative article from the AP this week showed that the NYPD has “trolled ethnic neighborhoods” and has kept close ties with the CIA. Read more »
NPR has a review up today of an AP story that tells how the post-9/11 NYPD changed from a local police organization into a worldwide spy agency staffed with former CIA employees. According to investigative journalist Matt Puzzo, the New York’s Finest has close working relationships with international intelligence agencies as far flung as Lyon and Tel Aviv. Read more »
65-year-old artist Jim Sanborn created the cypher sculpture Kryptos 20 years ago, and still, professional cryptologists and code cracker hobbyists have not cracked the last part of the 1,800 letter code, poked through a large block of petrified wood. The artist promised to leak an important clue to the New York Times shortly. Read more »
If torturing terrorists actually yielded actionable intelligence, I might support it, but like parents in the ghetto who beat their kids, it doesn’t work. Despite this overwhelming evidence, the CIA disagreed and in the years following 9/11, was busy playing three-card monte with detainees at “black sites” outside the borders, and more importantly, the laws of the Unites States reports the AP. Read more »
Team Obama can chalk off another kill by way of a Predator drone attack in Pakistan. Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian national and OG Al Qaeda founder and #3 on the U.S. list, reportedly died in a missile strike, but as the New York Times notes, we’ve heard that before. This time however, it’s true, cause even Al Qaeda is saying so.
The New York Times profiled old school graffiti artist and documenter DEAL, who has been addicted to the outlaw art form for over three decades now. You may have seen his site: www.at149st.com, one of the most definitive collection of graffiti writers named after the location of the legendary Writer’s Bench in the Bronx. He also put together a book recently with one of the most straight forward titles ever: “Graffiti New York.” |NYT|
Although it totally pisses off the nuclear-armed Pakistanis (and militants), the U.S. continues to send its shadowy drones into the country on assassination missions and this time around three people were killed—hopefully they were the enemy. |Reuters|
If you just can’t bring yourself to believe that President George Bush and his blood thirsty war cronies could be involved in letting the events of 9/11 unfold to rally the citizens under a common cause and set the military industrial complex into overdrive, you might want to read up on “ Operation Northwoods” as outlined in this declassified document: “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba.” There couldn’t be a more fitting item to read on the 7th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Many like to argue that the government just couldn’t be so evil as to attack its own people, but if you read the plan devised by the CIA, it might give you another perspective to the peculiarities surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Keep in mind, Operation Northwoods isn’t some abstract rogue memo or some Pale Horse styled, Illuminati laden conspiracy theory, it’s an actual document (PDF here) that outlines striking American interests. Read about how planes would be hijacked, shot down, and evidence disappeared. ABC news reported on it a few months before September 11th, 2001 and here’s how journalist James Bamford described the shadowy plot in his book Body of Secrets:
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