Marcus Aurelius: CIA’s Double Standard Exploitation of Secrecy — Use It to Hide Official Attrocities, While Screwing Iconoclasts + RECAP

Secret Double Standard By Ted Gup New York Times, January 9, 2013 Cambridge, Mass. — IN the last week, the American public has been reminded of the Central Intelligence Agency’s contradictory attitude toward secrecy. In a critique of “Zero Dark Thirty,” published last Thursday in The Washington Post, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., …

Marcus Aurelius: Fact-Checking CIA Fact-Checking 0 Dark 30 [with Robert Steele Fact-Checking Both] 1.2

Fact-Checking the CIA’s Fact-Check on ‘Zero Dark Thirty By J.K. Trotter | The Atlantic Wire – Fri, Dec 28, 2012 “The CIA is a lot different than Hollywood portrays it to be,” reads an official explainer issued today by the Central Intelligence Agency — a thinly veiled attempt to continue debunking Zero Dark Thirty, the controversial Oscar favorite that …

NIGHTWATCH: Pakistan Nuances Not Understood — Same in Syria

Pakistan: Pakistani news outlets have denounced the death of Maulvi/Mullah Nazir by a US drone attack last week. A prominent national security commentator, Mahmood Jan Bar, said that “it is a loss for Pakistan.” Babar said Mullah Nazir and his supporters believed that “Pakistan is an Islamic country and no aggression is being carried out …

Steven Aftergood: Congress to Public: Butt Out — We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Intelligence Oversight or Public Accountability — ESPECIALLY on Drones and Assassinations

Intelligence Oversight Steps Back from Public Accountability The move by Congress to renew the FISA Amendments Act for five more years without amendments came as a bitter disappointment to civil libertarians who believe that the Act emphasizes government surveillance authority at the expense of constitutional protections.  Amendments that were offered to provide more public information …

Owl: Tribunal in Malaysia Convicts George Bush and Five Others (in Absentia) as War Criminals

More on US war criminals as convicted by a tribunal in Malaysia. Crime Watch: American Presidents and their Advisors are War Criminals Especially this part: “Most Americans, their minds focused at the moment on the tragic slaughter of 20 young children aged 5-10, along with five teachers and a school principal in Connecticut by a …

Owl: UPDATED Top US War Criminals Named [Synopsis Added]

I put this first bit together to make it easier to grasp the depth and breadth of this scholarly and legal indictment. Scholar Names Top US War Criminals More Than Thirty Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes According to the distinguished American international law authority, Francis Boyle, a Professor of International Law at the …

Anthony Judge: Beware of Legality, Accountability, Marketability, Security! Be where the Four Hoarsemen of the Apocalypse are not?

Beware of Legality, Accountability, Marketability, Security! Be where the Four Hoarsemen of the Apocalypse are not? Introduction Being wary of “legality” Being wary of “accountability” Being wary of “marketability” Being wary of “security” Systemic implications of “horsemen” and “hoarsemen” and correspondences between them Being wary of the Four Hoarsemen acting together Being where and how …