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News you may have missed #305

March 9, 2010 by intelNews Leave a comment

So is America engaged in cyberwar, or not? US Army says yes, but Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration insists “there is no cyberwar” going on.
Indian spy master among Victims of recent Kabul blast. The victims of the February 26 suicide attacks in Afghanistan included Nitish Chibber, an undercover RAW (Indian spy agency) official assigned to the Indian consulate in Kandahar.
FBI paid racist informant ‘in excess of $100,000’. White supremacist radio talk-show host Hal Turner is being tried for threatening three Chicago-based federal appeals judges, by writing on his blog that they “deserve to be killed” for upholding a gun control ordinance. He has also disclosed that the FBI paid him “in excess of $100,000” over a five-year period.

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News you may have missed #0212

December 9, 2009 by intelNews Leave a comment

Government investigator gets US passports using fake names. A GAO investigator managed to obtain four genuine US passports using fake names and fraudulent documents. He then used one of the fake passports to buy a plane ticket, obtain a boarding pass, and make it through a security checkpoint at a major US airport. The post-9/11 security environment in all its glory.
Documents on Argentina’s Operation MEXICO declassified. Operation MEXICO was the codename for a clandestine Argentine rendition program aimed at abducting and murdering leaders of the Montonero Peronist Movement, a leftwing militant group, living in exile in Mexico City in the late 1970s.
Mistrial declared in the trial of FBI informant Hal Turner. Turner will still face a single count of unlawfully threatening three Chicago-based federal appeals judges, by writing on his blog that they “deserve to be killed” for upholding a gun control ordinance.

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FBI in hot seat over controversial use of informants

December 2, 2009 by intelNews 2 Comments

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By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, America’s primary domestic counterintelligence agency, is facing a storm of criticism over allegedly using informants to spy on Muslim and ultra right-wing groups. The most controversial of the two cases is arguably that of New Jersey talk radio host and blogger Harold “Hal” Turner, who has been described as a vocal supporter of white supremacist groups. Turner was charged last June for arguing on his blog that three Chicago federal appeals court judges “deserve to be killed”, and for posting photographs of the judges along with their work addresses and an area map of the Chicago federal courthouse. If convicted, Turner faces a $250,000 restitution fine and up to 10 years in prison. What is interesting, however, is that Turner told a judge that he was a paid FBI informant, code-named “Valhalla”, and was trained by the Bureau to infiltrate and monitor white supremacist groups. The FBI denied any connection to Turner, but The Bergen Record newspaper in New Jersey gained access to court records and verified the truth in Turner’s claims. Read more of this post