Tag: cia

ISRAEL'S WAR WITH ITSELF By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor It is easy to spot a liar if you are willing to take an honest look. ...

AMERICA'S WORST KEPT SECRET   By Gordon Duff , Senior Editor   I learned about 9/11 from the news.  Before the second plane had crashed, people in the crowd...

IS AMERICA'S RACKETEERING "ELITE" A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor There is a group of Americans, a combination of coward, gangster, politician, buffoonish...

TODAY'S SUICIDE BOMBING IN QUETTA, PAKISTAN LEAVES A TRAIL TO TEL AVIV   By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Quetta, Baluchistan, September 3, 2003 (VT)  Today, 43 Pakistanis were...

the world according to ken o'keefe.....an amazing video By Gordon Duff Senior Editor My good friend and fellow VT staff writer, Ken O'Keefe, gives his views...

CRASH OF AIRBUS 320 OUTSIDE ISLAMABAD NOW BELIEVED HIJACKED, HEADING FOR  NUKE FACILITY  By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor August 29, 2010 Islamabad, Pakistan (VT exclusive)  Informed...

"Even more unbelievably, it appears that defendants have yet to search even the most obvious location for documents — Edgewood Arsenal itself," the motion states, referring to the location northeast of Baltimore where the experiments are said to have been carried out.

Perhaps most disturbing is that the President's zeal to please his true constituency --- corporate America, Wall Street and the military-industrial complex --- comes from the same Presidential candidate whose soaring and lofty, yet deceptive campaign rhetoric gave rise to hope in so many that Election Day 2008 would mark a return economic fairness, transparency, a restoration of the rule of law, an end to the fear-driven perpetual "war on terror," and a restoration of nature's ecological balance.

The Impossibility of Flying Heavy Aircraft Without Training by Nila Sagadevan Nila Sagadevan is an aeronautical engineer and a pilot. There are some who maintain that the...

LAME "LEAK" SITE NOTHING MORE THAN THIN COVER FOR "THE TEL AVIV TANGO" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Now "Wiki-Leaks" is busy selling phony bin...

By Lieutenant General Hamid Gul History is about to take a monumental turn in the rugged, desolate hills and dales of Afghanistan where the world's sole...

DOUBT THROWN ON PROOF BIN LADEN A TERRORIST LEADER By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Two weeks ago, CIA Director Leon Panetta told the press the...

CIA TRIES TO PREPARE AMERICAN PUBLIC FOR TRUTH ABOUT BUSH/BIN LADEN DECEPTION By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor This week, CIA director Leon Panetta, admitted there...

              ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, MICHAEL OREN  "WE DON'T SPY ON AMERICA, ROGUE ISRAELI GROUPS DID IT" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor "...we're talking...

What the United Nations independent investigator on extrajudicial killings would like is for countries that employ surprise drone attacks to first...

By Khalil Nouri Staff Writer--Editor The United States is on a trajectory to lose the war in Afghanistan because its foreign policy has become entangled...

Times Square Bomb - a possible set-up to attack Pakistan?

CIA "SPY GAMES" WITH TALIBAN CITED AS SOURCE OF "TIME SQUARE FIZZLER" "SMOKING GUN" SHOWING CIA COMPLICITY OFFERED By Unattributed Intelligence Sources for VT Foreword by Gordon...

RAPE, TORTURE AND MURDER, BUSH POLICIES TO MAKE AMERICA "SAFE" AN INDICTMENT OF DR. AAFIA'S ABUSERS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor There were things Americans didn't...

REAL TERRORISTS ARE RARE AND USUALLY EASILY CAUGHT ALWAYS ASK: "WHO GAINS FROM THIS? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Every time there is a terrorist attack,...

DR ALAN SABROSKY, FORMER DIRECTOR OF STUDIES AT THE US ARMY WAR COLLEGE "ISRAEL DID IT" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Meet Dr. Alan Sabrosky, a...

CIA drones are killing terrorists -- and civilians -- in Pakistan almost every day. The unmanned aircraft are becoming the weapon of choice in the fight against al-Qaida and its allies. But the political, military and moral consequences are incalculable. SPIEGEL ONLINE has investigated Barack Obama's remote-controlled campaign against terrorism.

If anything, the "9/11 truth "movement is the victim, a victim of smear campaigns and it is increasingly reported that their organizations, which number in the hundreds, have come under investigation by security agencies and their membership has been heavily infiltrated much as with the militia movements of the 80s and 90s.

Ben Wizner, staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project, said, ”It is alarming to hear that the Obama administration is asserting that the president can authorize the assassination of Americans abroad, even if they are far from any battlefield and may have never taken up arms against the U.S., but have only been deemed to constitute an unspecified 'threat.'”

A key strategy of the Right has been to convince as many Americans as possible that the U.S. news media has a “liberal bias,” a canard that has stuck even though newspapers have been traditionally pro-Republican and most media outlets are owned by giant corporations reflecting the interests of wealthy individuals.

Agent Butler paid rent and cashed checks for the two hijackers while they were being advised by Al-Awlaki. What did Butler want to know? Was Ghazal funding Mel Rockefeller with whom he had traveled to Iraq in 1997. While in Baghdad they confirmed that Saddam Hussein had mothballed his WMD program after the 1991 Gulf War and that he was prepared to negotiate his departure—without this war. The FBI has yet to speak with Mel Rockefeller.

This is a supplement to Bob Higgins' post on Secretary of Defense Bob Gates in Seven Days in January: How the Pentagon Counts Coups...

In the past few years Pashtun villagers in Afghanistan's rugged heartland have begun to lose faith in the American project. Many of them can point to the precise moment of this transformation, and it usually took place in the dead of night, when most of the country was fast asleep. In its attempt to stamp out the growing Taliban insurgency and Al Qaeda, the US military has been arresting suspects and sending them to one of a number of secret detention areas on military bases, often on the slightest suspicion and without the knowledge of their families.

Last week's breakin at Senator Mary Landrieu's office in the New Orleans Federal Building was more than it seemed, much more. All of the 4 arrested had been trained by the CIA and, possibly, Israel. One arrested, Stan Dai, is listed as an Operations Officer of the Department of Defense Irregular Warfare Program and a known expert and lecturer on, not only surveillance but explosives training, assassinations and "false flag operations."

I’m proud to say that Anand Gopal, who has been reporting for the Wall Street Journal from Kabul, produces here the single most extensive report so far on American night raids in Afghanistan and the military holding areas that are the“black sites” of this moment. (His investigation, a shared project of TomDispatch.com and the Nation magazine, appears in print in the latest issue of the Nation.

a "Watergate" type attack on the Federal Building in New Orleans was thwarted when 4 "black bag" operatives, one the son of US Attorney, William J. Flannigan, whose offices were in the same building, were arrested "in the act."

Shades of Watergate in Louisiana, from Informed Comment, Whats this Pelican stuff? at TPM, America's fictional Democracy, from Chris Hedges, Big Surprise, another lie from the CIA, and Garrison Keillor says "let the uninsured die?" These and other stories in today's picks.

Poverty, misery, dictators, anarchy, Soviets, Mujaheedin, Intelligence Agencies, Taliban, Warlords, and now NATO, a time line, as lengthy as my age, 50 years, was before my eyes, I could hardly recall a moment when Afghanistan was smiling.

The Greatest Myth: The 9/11 Commission offered insight into the systemic problems of the CIA and the intelligence community. The Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 solved the problems that had been exposed by the 9/11 Commission by creating a director of national intelligence, the so-called intelligence tsar. In fact, the 9/11 Commission failed to use the powers it had been given to explore the reasons for the 9/11 intelligence failure.

Texas iconoclast Jim Hightower helps us find a way to thank Wall Street, illogical fears are analyzed at TomGram, Chris Kelly on "anti Christian muckrakers," and a vast majority of Americans are in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. It figures. Bob Higgins

By Juan Cole Informed Comment The new year is not very old, but several recent revelations cast the US fight against al-Qaeda (a tiny if...

Panetta admits in his own words, “In the past year we have done exceptionally heavy damage to al Qaeda. That’s why the extremists hit back.” Got that? It is extremism for al Qaeda to hit back but it is not extremism for the CIA to launch its drone aerial rocket strikes against al Qaeda---, strikes that a protesting Pakistan government has urged the U.S. halt as they are killing innocent civilians, in aggregate probably in the hundreds.

HACKED By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor WE are back up, working on a new look and will come back swinging for the fence. Thank...

Were the seven CIA employees killed in the recent terror attack at Camp Chapman in Afghanistan really CIA? Sources now tell us that some were Blackwater operatives, not CIA at all. Is the CIA and Blackwater one in the same? Are either one or both working for the United States or has the disease of privatization created a culture of greed and incompetence that has left the United States vulnerable and defenseless? Are we simply "out of our depth" in Afghanistan?

AF-PAK NO LONGER TERRORIST HAVEN US MUST FOLLOW TERROR THREAT TO AFRICA By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Whatever terrorist training was going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan...