Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Nowosielski, The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the crimes of the war on terror (Hot Books, 2018) ISBN 978-1-5107-2136-4 44 9 range of senior US intelligence and law enforcement officials whose experience had led them to conclude that the threatened attacks could and should have been stopped long before September 11 2001. […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Straw. Nor from Jonathan Powell, Downing Street chief of staff. Nor Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications. More importantly still, I have not discovered from either the Joint Intelligence Committee or the Secret Intelligence Service that the prime minister was misrepresenting their intelligence. This failure to challenge Mr Blair means that the Secret Intelligence Service […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] published every year. SIS gave up all pretence to being a secret agency when it had that flashy new building on the Thames constructed for it. Former intelligence chiefs and former officers are now regularly interviewed by broadcasters. They have been dragged out part of the way into the light and have discovered that […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] companion’s identity in 2008 when he told US viewers of CNN’s Larry King Live show how he had ‘. . . asked for a meeting with the Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff which I got with another naval officer who had had many similar experiences and we told our story and […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] outlawry covers the full 140 Summer 2010 spectrum of international co-operation in human affairs – national sovereignty, the environment, human rights, trade and finance, WMD, security and intelligence, maritime, space, health. For a nation ‘conditioned to conquest and warfare’, the Bush-neocon, ‘war on terror’ years were not an aberration, rather a profoundly destabilising acceleration […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] pleasures of taking certain drugs and hinted, half-jokingly, that he was or had been connected to the CIA (in World War Two he had served in military intelligence). Mason also recalled that Solomon ‘became nervy’ when someone present casually mentioned that Mason was friendly with the local police: he had been reporting suspicious night-time […]