Was the Real Target of the Spy Sting Russian Official #1?

By: emptywheel Sunday July 11, 2010 3:00 pm

It appears the White House may have gotten itself caught in the kabuki it played with the press on the Russian spies now swapped for some spies in Russian custody. But the timing of the kabuki suggests the target of the spy sting may not have been the illegals, but two Russian officials working under official cover.

New Military Clandestine Directive Short on Oversight… By Design

By: Charles Davis Wednesday May 26, 2010 6:40 pm

The Obama administration has approved covert military operations in a wide number of Middle Eastern countries, The New York Times reports, including in Somalia, Yemen and Iran (not to mention the long-running, kinda sorta covert war in Pakistan). As former National Security Council staffers Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett note, Obama’s move marks a particularly dramatic “intensification of America’s covert war against Iran” — a war that, because it is being run out of the office of General David Petraeus and CENTCOM, is “not subject to the same congressional oversight and reporting requirements as the Central Intelligence Agency.”

Don’t Be Evil? Google’s Schmidt Says PATRIOT Means You Have No Privacy

By: emptywheel Thursday December 10, 2009 12:50 pm

Eric Schmidt implies that all your searches are available to the Feds.

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