Obama inheriting broad covert ops policies

President Bush leaves President-elect Obama broad latitude for covert action in countries with which the United States is not at war, powers that Obama could scale back along with other Bush presidential orders now under consideration for rescinding.

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Rejected asylum seekers thrown out of the country in a covert police operation early this morning

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When Racists call the police on Black People

They usual end up harassed, arrested in jail or shot ...A favorite tool of overt and covert racist, are the police..

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Cyberattacks that have crippled the Web sites of several major American and South Korean government agencies since the July 4th holiday weekend appear to have been launched by a hostile group or government, South Korea's main government spy agency said on Wednesday.

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Is the tail wagging the dog?

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Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. More Articles

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We will address the disgraceful resurgence of racial supremacism as documented in the Southern Poverty Law Center's reports

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Security researchers said they have discovered software capable of stealing information installed on computers in 103 countries, an apparently coordinated cyber-attack that targeted the office of the Dalai Lama and government agencies around the world. More Articles

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For some reason they felt they were being asked to show their tickets because they were black and they refused, and that created a conflict

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is accusing officials of an ongoing pattern of racial discrimination committed and condoned by city officials

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Some interesting information about the CIA and its covert "operations" in Afghanistan, and using Afghanistan as a launchpad. What's also interesting is the CIA trying to "drug" or make Muslims addicted to narcotics.

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From Kuala Lampur comes this astute abstract of the mess in South Asia. It mentions that geographers think they have located Bin Laden. (I seeded that see below) and that Special Forces are training Pakistani forces.

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Breaking News: Iran uncovers covert Israeli plot to sabotage nuclear sites

Feb. 17 -- Press TV reported on their website today that the Iranian Intelligence Ministry discovered a covert plot by the Zionist-Israeli intelligence/security agency, Mossad, aimed at disrupting Iran's peaceful nuclear progress.

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The Intel community is furious over The New York Times article on U.S. covert moves to have the Iranian nuclear weapons program dismantled.

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After failing to anticipate Hamas's victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs.

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Race: Apologia for McCain's Isolationist Campaign

War and economic issues have no racial boundaries in America.

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded — a jailhouse  …

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Italy's supreme court ruled Tuesday that it is legal to record sex videos without telling one's partner. The court ruled in favor of a 49-year-old man who had secretly recorded his bedroom activities with his former girlfriend.

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President Bush's senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

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Dog's dilemma is that he wants to project a public image of tolerance — he may even have an honest sense that "racism" is wrong.

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The director of the CIA outs his top spy to push a diversity recruiting drive. Back in 1982, Congress passed a law designed to guard against the disclosure of the names of US spies.

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An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003. . . .

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OK, now I would like to see the apologies from the following right-wing talking heads: Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity Laura Ingraham Bill O'Reilly Bill Bennett Glenn Beck Bob Novak

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An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003.

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Libby's trial earlier this year established that at least three other Bush administration officials —former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer (who testified under a gran …

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SIX months after Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who fled to Britain, died an agonising death in a London hospital, British prosecutors have said whom they intend to charge and prosecute for his murder.

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