[…] to be a friend of Bill Clinton, stumbled across that long-lost Piper turbo prop in a hanger back in Arkansas. The FBI went after Reed for insurance fraud. He managed to clear his name in court, despite several unnerving incidents, including the fire-bombing of a car belonging to his lawyer’s daughter, and the sequestering […]
[…] agency.'(34) Seymour Hersh: ‘ former high-level intelligence official told me that some senior CIA officials were aware that the documents weren’t trustworthy…. They knew it was a fraud – it was useless. Everybody bit their tongue and said, “Wouldn’t it be great if the Secretary of State said this?” The Secretary of State never […]
[…] Intelligence Newsletter, 10, Rue du Sentier, 75002, Paris. The affair is succinctly summarised in Statewatch, January-February, 1994. Statewatch, PO Box 1516, London N16 0EW. For example, ‘The Fraud of the Amsterdam Arms Haul’ in the now defunct Seven Days, (27 October, 1971), began ‘It is now clear that the dramatic “discovery” of 116 crates […]
[…] Jan 2002. Entitlement Cards unit http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/dob/ecu.htm Responsible for running the consultation exercise on the entitlement card scheme and for policy on ID cards Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cpd/entitlement_cards.pdf A consultation paper on ID cards, July 2002. Consultation period runs until Jan 10 2003. Privacy International: ID cards http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/idcard/uk/ Launched July 2002, PI’s UK […]
[…] of exculpating the establishment at all costs. In the Jeremy Thorpe trial, Mr Justice Cantley described alleged potential murder victim Norman Scott as follows: ‘He is a fraud. He is a sponger. He is a whiner. He is a parasite. But, of course, he could still be telling the truth. It is a question […]
[…] back over.’ Back over? On 4 July the Observer ran a third of a page on the political situation in Nigeria, ‘New rules, new date, same old fraud on Babangida’s election.’ Roughly; for the first time the Northerners lost control in an election, so the army promptly ruled the election null and void. The […]
[…] Sol Estes scandals which threatened to finish his political career and put him in prison? The important one is Estes. He was running a classic agricultural subsidies fraud in Texas, getting public money for crops that weren’t being grown. In 1962 money it was producing $20 million a year – we are talking serious […]
[…] Service, which had nothing if not an active imagination, began working closely with telco cops. The federal effort started years earlier after Congress passed the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but in May 1990 it culminated in Operation Sundevil, by far the largest series of high-profile raids ever conducted against hackers. About 42 […]
[…] the intellectual incompetents they appear. Whatever the explanation, CSICOP has done an effective job persuading the media (who, in turn, persuade the public) that Geller is a fraud — a stage magician. That Randi and his collegues can replicate a few of Geller’s simpler feats should tell us nothing. But the journalists who report […]
[…] the tone and central theme of this book. Some of the book’s content will be familiar to readers of this magazine, Private Eye’s coverage of the PFI fraud, or Elliot’s column in The Guardian. What may not be so familiar is a section near the end, in which in a couple of pages they […]
