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    It Always Comes Out, Eventually

    [Warning: Torture]

    I’m not sure why, but psychopaths sure do like to brag, don’t they?

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 15, 2022
    • CIA, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket
    • 10 Comments

    Just a Note: Nothing Surprising Here

    The surveillance state has done a great job of conditioning our social response to what amounts to a massive violation of the constitution. Of course nobody cares. The information has been dropped in a way that nobody really understands it, and that is quite deliberate.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 14, 2022
    • Spies Spying on Things, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
    • 10 Comments

    Ethiopia

    When I start hearing the old trope about plucky rebels attempting to overthrow a vicious government, my first reaction is to check and see if the story is being carried by The New York Times and, if it is, I search for “${region} CIA involvement”. I’m sad that we live in such a cynical world, but that’s what it is.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 2, 2021
    • Spies Spying on Things, Terrorism, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 2 Comments

    Blowback

    “Blowback” is the CIA’s term for “nasty things that happen because of something we did, which we did not plan for.” I guess that makes it sound a bit like it’s not our fault; it’s just something that happened, gosh, it’s time to move on already isn’t it?

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 14, 2021
    • Spies Spying on Things, Terrorism, War is a Racket
    • 15 Comments

    The Right To Privacy Is The Right To Do Crimes

    US president Donald Trump has gone to the edge of the cliff defending his right to privacy, although he would never phrase it that way. For Trump, it’s all couched in the language of “executive privilege” – i.e.: the right of the rich and powerful to do whatever they want (especially if it means getting richer and more powerful).

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 3, 2020
    • CIA, Cyberwar
    • 5 Comments

    CIA Exceptionalism

    The CIA appears to believe that it has the charter to go anywhere, kill anyone, and overthrow any state that it thinks needs overthrowing. It’s nice to see that sometimes that’s still not true.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 13, 2020
    • CIA
    • 10 Comments

    A Dangerous, Irresponsible, Claim

    This one managed to shock me a little bit, because of what it says regarding authoritarians’ view of what constitutes an acceptable claim. It manages to be worse than some of the worst/flimsiest justifications for torture that I’ve seen.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 22, 2020
    • Terrorism, War is a Racket
    • 5 Comments

    Wonder if They Have a Frequent Flier Plan?

    You’ve probably seen this image: coronavirus expose-ees leaving the cruise ship in Japan, deplaning at an air base in the US.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 25, 2020
    • CIA, Spies Spying on Things

    NOW, That’s a Surprise

    I came at this one from a weird angle. One of the Pacifica Radio Archive shows I listened to was an interview with Betty Friedan (FTV074) @13:53 during a question period someone asks: [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 14, 2020
    • CIA, Spies Spying on Things, Totalitarianism, Trolls and Trolling

    The Department of Dirty Tricks

    In Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes [wc] he writes at one point that what the US needed was an intelligence agency, but what it got was a “Department of Dirty Tricks.” [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • January 18, 2020
    • Bureaucracy, Burn it to the ground, CIA
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