Les espions privés de l'Amérique
Un fouillis "top Secret"
"L'Amérique top secrète" depuis le 11-septembre
“Top Secret America”: deux années d’une immense enquête du “Washington Post”
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Part 1: July 19, 2010
Part 2: July 20, 2010
Reference
- National Security Inc.
- Photo gallery: The role of private contractors
- Video: Help Wanted: Professionals with security clearances
Reference
18 juillet:
"WaPo Will Commit Treason Monday"/National Security Staff Warned
18-19 juillet:
BBC: Washington Post exposes US 'intelligence flaws'
Raw Story: US intelligence spending completely out of control, Washington Post reveals
Washington Post: The overgrowth of intelligence programs since Sept. 11
Intelligence System Is Intractable, Wildly Expensive, 'The Washington Post' Reports
ODNI memos outline contracting and intelligence world after Sept. 11
Tim Shorrock Asks Why It Took the Washington Post So Long to Investigate the US Intelligence System
Top 10 blockbuster revelations from the Washington Post’s intelligence complex exposé
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1. The U.S. intelligence system has exploded in size since the Sept. 11 attacks. Its budget was $75 billion last year, 2.5 times what it was before the attacks, and more than 850,000 people hold top-secret security clearances. More than 30 top-secret intelligence complexes have been built or are being built in the D.C. area since 2001, and at least 263 government intelligence organizations have been created or reorganized since 9/11.
2. Only a few officials in the Department of Defense have access to all of the top-secret activities and information. Two "super users" in the department told the Post that it's impossible for them to keep track of the mountains of top-secret info they're exposed to. "I'm not going to live long enough to be briefed on everything," one said.
3. Agencies are collecting so much data that they don't have enough translators or researchers to analyze it. Every day, the National Security Agency's systems "intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications."(...)
6. Contractors are not supposed to perform what federal rules define as "inherently government functions," but they do. In every single intelligence agency, contractors are performing the same functions as federal employees, and often for higher pay. Contractors for the CIA "have recruited spies in Iraq, paid bribes for information in Afghanistan and protected CIA directors visiting world capitals."
7. Out of the 854,000 people who have top-secret clearances, 265,000 are contractors. That's about a third of the total workforce in the nation's intelligence agencies. About 2,000 small to midsize private companies do top-secret work.
8. The booming corporate intelligence industry is siphoning off the most skilled workers from the government with better pay and shiny bonuses. Contractors can offer twice as much money to experienced federal employees as the government can, and at least one corporate executive was spotted recruiting in the CIA's cafeteria during working hours.
9. Hiring contractors is also really expensive for the government, despite the Bush administration's hopes it would be cheaper than hiring more federal employees. "Contractors made up 29 percent of the workforce in the intelligence agencies but cost the equivalent of 49 percent of their personnel budgets," the Post says. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that federal workers are 25 percent cheaper than contractors.
10. Employees with top-secret clearance who work in a cluster of ordinary-looking office building outside of Washington must submit to strict rules. They take multiple lie-detector tests, are coached to avoid questions from neighbors and friends, and can lose their jobs for borrowing too much money or having friends from certain countries. Some assume false identities.
Sayanim: Israeli Operatives in the U.S., by Jeff Gates (version française ici)
NY shuls get anti-terror funds Nonprofit, religious groups including some 25 synagogues to receive $6M in anti-terror grants
N.Y. synagogues get increased anti-terrorism funds
An Exclusive Interview with Stephen Sniegoski, author of The Transparent Cabal
Interview with Canadian Author of Host and Parasite Book Documenting Unhealthy US-Israeli Relationship
Israel to get mega military handout The United States plans to provide Israel with its most extensive military aid package in history.
The “Israel First” Industry and CEO Profiteering by Dr. James Petras. Over the past fifty years a far-reaching transformation has taken place within Jewish organizations, among its leaders and their practices and policies…an organized powerful political machine which buys US Congress people and penetrates the Executive in order to serve Israeli military aims.
"Homeland Security": a Jewish racket
Sur le 11 septembre:
Ex-Malaysian premier still says 9/11 inside job
Pakistani ISI General Hamid Gul: 9/11 was the work of Neo-Conservative Zionists
Sur ce blog:
Les compagnies de surveillance ne cessent de croître et de s'enrichir
Le récent scandale d'espionnage par des compagnies de sécurité israéliennes en Pennsylvanie n'est que la pointe de l'iceberg...
