Berto Jongman: NSA Has Access to SWIFT – Ergo US Government Complicit in all Financial Crimes by All Financial Actors Subject to US Law

‘Follow the Money’: NSA Monitors Financial World By Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark The NSA monitors banks and credit card transactions — sometimes in apparent violation of national laws and global regulations. The European SWIFT financial transaction network is being tapped on different levels, internal documents from the US spy agency show. EXTRACT …

Open Mind: CIA PSYOP Against US Public – Labeling Truth-Seekers as “Conspiracy Theorists?”

CIA Responsible For Labeling Honest Research Into Finding the Truth As “Conspiracy Theories” Boy does this article by Foster  Gamble fit on this blogsite.  For more than 40 years anyone attempting to find out the truth about anything that the “controllers” wanted to keep secret, was labeled a “conspiracy theorist”.  Of course, then, propaganda was used …

Steven Aftergood: CRS Special – War in Afghanistan: Campaign Progress, Political Strategy, and Issues for Congress

War in Afghanistan: Campaign Progress, Political Strategy, and Issues for Congress Catherine Dale Specialist in International Security August 29, 2013 Summary This is a critical time for U.S. efforts in the war in Afghanistan. In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama announced that the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan would draw down …

Review: The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq

John Diamond 4.0 out of 5 stars Got the Obvious Right, Misses Everything Else, September 4, 2013 I regard Retired Reader as an alter ego and top gun in the field, so his review has my vote. If the book were current (it was published in 2008) I would be tempted to buy it but …