Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] people in the US before the event and blocking inquiries after it; but these seem to be explicable by bureaucratic demarcations, interagency rivalries, laws passed by the Clinton administration which made it more difficult for security agencies to pursue intelligence leads and – this might be the smoking gun – some (as yet slight) […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] of continuing threats to erode the First Amendment in the US, particularly recent legislation, , which would have provided greater powers to prosecute whistle-blowers. Although vetoed by Clinton, it could be revived. In the UK, only a week earlier, the government had thrown out an attempt to prosecute Colonel Nigel Wylde under the Official […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] Command (the successor to Strategic Air Command which includes ballistic missile submarines) were ‘in the early stages of building and testing computer models that could enable Mr Clinton to aim nuclear weapons at third world nations that threaten the interests of the United States or its allies’. (17) The transition from massive nuclear targeting […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] to the presence of oil in the Sudan.For a detailed account of recent events in the Sudan see The European-Sudanese Public Affairs council pamphlet, Farce Majeure: the Clinton Administration’s Sudan Policy by David Hoile (ISBN 1-903545-00-5). Readers with long memories will recognise Hoile as former young activist on the radical right of the early […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] the FBI wants the same thing. Not to be outdone, the NSA played the major role in the development of the ‘Clipper Chip’ recently approved by President Clinton, and soon the government will start requiring industry to provide phones and computers equipped with it. This chip contains encryption algorithms that can be broken by […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] quotation from the faintly mysterious and spooky Dr. C. B. Scott Jones. In 1994 Scott Jones had meetings with Dr. John Gibbons, the scientific advisor to President Clinton, at which various bits of evidence about UFOs were presented to Gibbons.(3) On 17 February 1994 Scott Jones wrote to Gibbons, …I urge you to take […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] of the essay. 1 David Fahrenthold, ‘Trump Recorded Having Extremely Lewd Conversation About Women in 2005’, Washington Post, 8 October 2016; Mary Jones, ‘Trump’s Reference to Bill Clinton Affair Underscores His Own History of Infidelity’, Washington Post, 25 September 2016; Chris Cillizza, ‘Donald Trump’s “John Miller” Interview is Even Crazier than You Think’, Washington […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away from the commemoration, across town, up the elevator to the apartment of her daughter Chelsea (where Mrs Clinton went to get herself recomposed) and back out into the street when she re-emerged an hour or two later. The big thing (for about five minutes) […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] obvious to many observers that improving access to Iraq’s oil was driving the invasion.63 This had long been part of the neo-conservatives plans: PNAC’s 1998 letter to Clinton, warned that unless Saddam was removed ‘a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil will be put at hazard.’6 4 Despite the high-level denials, some […]
