The US Air Force flew one of its intelligence workers’ wives out of the UK after she committed vehicular homicide, then claimed diplomatic immunity. The British press reports that the whereabouts of Anne Sacoolas are being concealed from journalists and investigators. The US media is conspiring to keep all personal details being made public. Freedom the the Press does not protect your freedom to know. Anne Sacoolas, 42, wife of US "diplomat" Jonathan Sacoolas (reportedly an intelligence officer with the NSA), fled the UK after killing Harry Dunn, 19, when her Volvo collided with his motorbike while she was driving on wrong side of road. Sacoolas had just exited the RAF Croughton base in Northamptonshire, which is leased to the US and called the Joint Intelligence Analysis Centre (JIAC). Sacoolas’ eldest of three children was in the car at the time of the accident. Usually diplomatic immunity only covers diplomats in London, but a special deal signed as early at 1994 includes this particular base. US media is reporting the story, without mentioning her name, or that her "diplomatic immunity" is a cover for intelligence work. Curious things, these media moratoriums.
Tag: Intelligence
CSPD Intelligence doesn’t have much
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO- Like the term Military Intelligence, "police intelligence" is an oxymoron. At least that's the old joke. Wednesday's hearing about the CSPD's undercover operation against the Colo. Springs Socialists reinforced the adage. The good news is that Metro VNI, that is, Vice Narcotics & Intelligence, doesn't have much intelligence, as in smarts, haha, OR constructive data. The impetus of CSPD's efforts to infiltrate local activists has been to track ANTIFA, a nefarious worldwide anti-fascist organization apparently. Lieutenant Mark Comte, who heads Metro-VNI, testified to what they know so far. ANTIFA members wear black and cover their faces. When protesters do that, they're Antifa.
Popularity of “mind blowing” posts points to collective lack of imagination
Click bait posts on social media promise surprise and wonder, such that "you will not believe" and "this will blow your mind" but doing so reveal the terrifying vacuum of the average reader's mind. As the internet allows users to cloudsource their brain functions, very consciously the memory storage, we are also consigning it our processing. In interspace no one can hear you think.
Drone targeting data… is it as flawed as THIS?
It's not just in the middle east, it's what "we" do here too... The brutality is endemic to the system, every action of Cop Meets Citizen, here, or abroad, is taken under the assumption that the Citizen is the enemy, and must be subdued, brought under "our" control. Whether a citizen in his home or a whole nation. This from chat: 23:58listening to the scanner... Pigs are fixin' to jump into an apartment, armored up... 23:58The dispatcher said that "last time we had to tase him". 23:59 and that nobody in the house likes cops (the CSPD and EP Co Sheriff refer to that as a B.O.L.O "Be On the Look Out") 23:59 Imagine that, a gang of uniformed thugs holds somebody down, beating him and torturing him, in front of his family, and they wonder why nobody likes them. 00:00 Actually they DO know, but they think their guns and gang will keep anybody from doing any retaliation, just like their foreign policy. 00:01Oderint dum Metuant, let them hate us as long as they fear us. 00:02Caligula and Nero's motto. 00:02 What wonderful people they worship as heroes!! And they want to export that kind of "freedom" everywhere in the world. Freedom to obey. Then they get all weepy and wringing their hands when people fight back. Like the famous line from War and Peace: "why, they're shooting at me... ME, who everybody loves!" But wait... there's MORE... Here's an update on that police call... something extra special... You're gonna love this. The dispatcher was sending in the cavalry, armed and loaded for a massive fight..00:46 The person they had tasered and had the advisory about...00:46 was the man in Apartment B.00:47 And the call they were responding to was in Apartment A.00:47 Across the complex from each other. How many times have similar "oopsies" happened in Afghanistan and Iraq? Using similar techniques, technologies and the cops are recruited straight out of the military. What kind of odds does that make that Drone Strikes are even targeted at the right addresses, the right towns even? What proof or even evidence do we have that the Military Intelligence services, operating in foreign lands where, unlike their "para-civilian" stormtroopers here, they haven't had the "suspected" terrorists in custody, haven't interviewed them, and don't have any experience of having been physically at the address of the people they're killing? Wikileaks has answers, that's why Wikileaks is under attack from the piggoes.
Mary McFate Sapone aka non-profit spy
While Dennis Kucinich begins to shed light on the intelligence infiltration of civic and community groups, Mother Jones has tracked down a non-profit for-profit snoop. She's volunteer over-achiever Mary McFate to her gun control do-gooder colleagues, and Mary Jo Sapone to her do-much-badder private security firm and its client the NRA. Here's a prophetic snapshot of a running SolutionGal from her blogspot site. Before gun control advocates, Sapone infiltrated animal rights groups, once urging a reluctant activist to plant a bomb. An co-worker infiltrator/provocateur drove the would-be bomber to the site. The whole Sapone family was in on the spying business, her daughter-in-law Montgomery advertised these skills: "Collect and analyze intelligence on European activities of major international environmental organization for a company specializing in domestic and internal opposition research, special investigations, issues management and threat assessment. Write weekly intelligence update on European animal rights and eco-terrorist activity. Assist in confidential litigation support research." While her son Sean takes credit for organizing "the first major legal arms shipment to Liberia in 15 years." Daughter Shelley helped to develop political strategies against the social reform groups. All of the Sapones were pro-war. I'd have thought that would be a giveaway. Now Montgomery and Sean Sapone have adopted the last name McFate, and advise DC think tanks and the Pentagon on "Mercenary Anthropology."
Indonesians suspicious of Namru-2 Lab
Have you heard of NAMRU-2? It's a US military laboratory set off limits on an Indonesian college campus in Jakarta. The lab's stated purpose is to study tropical diseases coming from the region. But Indonesians have become suspicious about the application of what the US is learning, and why the lab workers need diplomatic immunity. The secretive lab has yet to share information with Indonesian researchers. There has been no instance when the Navy Medical Research Unit 2 has assisted with Indonesia's health system. Then there's the specter of the lab being administrated under the authority of our Department of Defense. Indonesians point to the certainty that this also means the US intelligence community. Might it be fair to wonder what Namru-2 is working on and for who? As Indonesians are raising questions about the foreign lab's legitimacy, their political representatives have succeeded in stalling negotiations for a new lease. Would "curious" describe the current sticking point: Americans are insisting on diplomatic immunity for the lab staff?
The You Make My Day Award chain letter
So begins each post: "My friend so-and-so surprised me with a You Make My Day Award. Thank you! (You should really check out their wonderful blog!) I'm to post this with the following proviso," etc, etc. Nothing wrong with a little guerrilla marketing, in this case lighting a back fire up the social network where blogroll links and reciprocal courtesy comments were just not keeping everyone's interest. Internet blogging has set into motion a real-time one hundred monkeys experiment, but of course someone has to address the task of monitoring the output. We won't know if even a blogosphere of monkeys typing away can produce Shakespeare unless somebody is diligently evaluating the gibberish. It didn't take long tracing the roots of the You-Make-My-Day-Award givers to find someone who explained the rules as: "You have to pass this on to ten people" etc. And there it is. The YMMDA is a chain letter. And like so many viral emails, its driving force is a smile over coffee, pass it on. Chain emails, whether they promise warm and fuzzies or anticipation that Bill Gates will personally pay you a quarter of a million dollars, are disseminated to chart social networks, yours. They plot connections between people, particularly the veracity of those connections measured by the speed and frequency with which you give your friends priority. Such information is valuable to anyone wanting a bead on you. Use your imagination. So the You-Make-My-Day-Award is netting bloggers, internet users who may have moved on from circulating those clever email chain letters. I'm perhaps most disappointed that people using their blogs as creative outlets, can't be creative enough to praise each other on their own initiative. They have to borrow a concept, a graphic and a blurb, and admonish each other to keep it up. These monkeys are getting tired.
Spook Steve Recca wants us to feel safe
Commander Steve Recca, of the new DoD endowed UCCS Center for Homeland Security, told his Shove Chapel audience last night that Homeland Security is about being safe. That means everything to him from keeping his daughter safe at school to keeping the streets safe from excessive snow fall. Does the DHS want a crack at Climate Change? Recca also explained that Homeland Security is about community. Yes, community: the local community and the global community. Whatever does he think "homeland" refers to? Manitou? Planet Earth? Before Bush and Ashcroft I'm pretty sure "Homeland" had only ever meant Nazi Germany, needing to be kept safe from Fascist-haters like socialists, anarchists, discontents and others who objected to Nazi land grabs. In the Soviet Bloc security would have been about community: the community of neighbors ready to rat on you. Steve Recca kept Homeland Security affairs out of Greg Mortenson's presentation until the end. Then, to cap off the questions from the audience, from the darkened anonymity of the public microphone, Recca asked for everyone's patience while he read an "email from a Marine at an FOB (Forward Operating Base) in Afghanistan." In this "email" a soldier explained how protecting one of Mortenson's schools was the most important goal of his mission, etc, etc. The inattentive audience may have become too accustomed to visualizing boiler room letter writing sessions assigned to soldiers in the field, or soldiers laid up in VA hospitals with nothing else to do but hand-write form letters dictated to them by military PR specialists. Those Letters to the Editor sent to newspapers across the country, or emails to Dr Greg in this case, may be outsourced to India for all we know. In any case, the Colorado College audience was bored of it. I'd like to see Recca explain what role propaganda or jingoism plays in Homeland Security. Commander Steve Recca is a career spook, now pioneering the post-graduate studying of keeping white America safe. I can understand that DHS might require information sharing with the Intelligence Community. Does it have to be part of that community? Is that the "community" Recca was talking about? Will Homeland Security be training its airport shoe-sniffers to conduct surveillance and torture too? Steve Recca doesn't bring transportation or border guard experience to his job. His background is entirely about spying. 1983- graduate (with honors) of U.S. Naval Academy 1990- Master of Arts (with distinction) from Naval Postgraduate School 1990 to 1993- tours on USS YORKTOWN, USS TEXAS, USS AMERICA 1993- Staff, Commander Naval Forces Europe (CNE), in London Intelligence Watch Officer, Head of the Current Intelligence Branch. 1994- Certificate in International Political Affairs from University of Zurich 1995 to 1997- Special Assistant and Speechwriter for the Secretary of the Navy 1997 to 1998- Office of the Director of Central Intelligence, speech writer, member on Director's Long-Term Planning Board 1998 to 2001-American Embassy in Oslo, Norway,