The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] they dragged their feet during the talks until after the election. Which they duly did. Chennault’s role became known in the Johnson White House – presumably the NSA or CIA had the conference wired for sound – but Johnson did nothing, said nothing.27 And these events are still being suppressed on the Democratic side […]

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[…] plausible to me but there is much there I am not competent to evaluate. A pity then that This Will Hold chose to run ‘Ex-CIA Whistleblower: “The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won”’.25 For a little poking around about the author, Adam Zarnowski, suggests this ‘ex-CIA Whistleblower’ is not reliable.26 But the […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Voice newspaper. Lest we forget, Church was marginalized, lost his Senate seat to a well-funded campaign, and, as we know, the domestic surveillance by the CIA and NSA and whoever else continued unchecked, at least until the Snowden revelations. Church’s committee was regularly lied to by its witnesses and obstructed by the Ford administration; […]

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[…] plausible to me but there is much there I am not competent to evaluate. A pity then that This Will Hold chose to run ‘Ex-CIA Whistleblower: “The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won”’.25 For a little poking around about the author, Adam Zarnowski, suggests this ‘ex-CIA Whistleblower’ is not reliable.26 But the […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] passim), Evans, who for many years has lived in New York, continues to be protective of US security interests. In a Guardian article in 2012, he described NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as ‘narcissistic’. Friends of Israel M edia Society joint host James Harding was soon joined in the upper reaches of the BBC as […]

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[…] plausible to me but there is much there I am not competent to evaluate. A pity then that This Will Hold chose to run ‘Ex-CIA Whistleblower: “The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won”’.14 For a little poking around about the author, Adam Zarnowski, suggests this ‘ex-CIA Whistleblower’ is not reliable.15 But the […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the US Congress, named after their respective chairmen, Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Otis Pike. These select committees investigated the illegal activities of the CIA, FBI, and NSA between 1975 and 1976. 7 Calvin Coolidge, ‘After all, the chief business of the American people is business…’ Reported in a speech to the American Society […]

Life during wartime Resisting counterinsurgency by Kristian Williams et al

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to have wandered into the wrong conference.) Unfortunately the book was put together before the NSASnowden events and doesn’t directly address the largely unspoken subtext of the NSA story: how do you organise for change when the state can intercept all electronic and paper communications? Send hand-carried messages? Use pigeons? Because counterinsurgency (CI) theory […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] War’ section of the Enigma History page at Crypto Museum . 55 ‘The captured Enigma machines ended up in the vaults of CG&GS (now: GCHQ) and the NSA, or were given to other countries with the message that they could not be broken.’ Sue Halpern, ‘The Drums of Cyberwar’ at . 56 the one […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by […]

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