http://www.inthesetimes.com/archives/tags/intelligence/ In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter. en-us Expression Engine jessica@inthesetimes.com seamus@inthesetimes.com Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2761/who_is_hoekstras_secret_source/ Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) must be enjoying himself. Since the New York Times released his May 18 letter to President Bush in which Hoekstra, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, condemned the intelligence community for keeping secrets from Congress, he has been feted as a Republican who is willing to stand up to the administration. But for more than six months, the congressman has been keeping his own secrets--and someone else's. On December 16, and again on April 25, former intelligence agent Russell Tice wrote Hoekstra, asking to testify before the committee about "probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts conducted while I was an intelligence officer with the National Security Agency and with the Defense Intelligence Agency." Hoekstra… politics national security intelligence David Sirota Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3007/declassified_but_still_unavailable/ At the stroke of midnight on December 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret government documents--including 270 million pages of FBI files--were instantly declassified, promising to shed light on everything from the Cuban Missile Crisis to government surveillance of antiwar and civil rights activists in the '60s and '70s. It was to be a "Cinderella moment," said the New York Times, for researchers of the government's secret history. But upon contacting the National Archives, researchers learned that declassification is not the same thing as release--none of the documents were publicly available for review. The confusion over the documents' status was understandable. The 2003 Executive Order that President Bush signed with great fanfare clearly stated that government documents more than… government agencies intelligence David Sirota Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3089/cheney_and_libby_lying_about_lying/ Here is the real news from the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial: Evidence released during the case indicates that not only did Libby lie to the grand jury (the crime for which he was convicted) but that the Office of the Vice President (OVP)--specifically Vice President Dick Cheney, Libby and Cathie Martin, Cheney's press secretary--tried to cover-up the Bush administration's original lies to Congress and the American people about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction with more lies. This second round of lies began after Joseph Wilson published a July 6, 2003 op-ed in the New York Times, in which he said that his 2002 fact-finding mission found no evidence that Saddam Hussein had bought yellowcake uranium from Niger. Recall that… administration intelligence David Sirota Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3244/entrapping_inflated_threats1/ Abdul Kadir, one of the four men charged in an alleged terrorist plot to blow up a pipeline that fed fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, is a former member of the Guyanese Parliament and former mayor of Linden, Guyana. The fuel line the group allegedly planned to sabotage originates in Linden, N.J. This Linden-Linden axis heavily implicates Kadir. I am being facetious of course. However, had law enforcement officials made this connection during their announcement of the plot in early June, there is little doubt the national media would have incredulously reported it as a credible link. In fact, the actual announcement was just marginally more credible. "Had the plot been carried out, it could have resulted… intelligence national security terrorism David Sirota Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3346/training_satellites_on_the_united_states/ On August 15, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that America's senior intelligence authorities were preparing to vastly expand access to classified satellite reconnaissance and other remote sensing data. Initially, the National Applications Office (NAO), a newly created office within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), will confine itself to homeland security and traditional civil applications. Officials will be able to request satellite data to enhance border security, defend critical infrastructure and coordinate disaster response. Next year, the department plans to give satellite data to state and local law enforcement agencies. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is a major force behind the creation of the NAO. According to the Journal, Director of National Intelligence Michael… civil liberties intelligence technology David Sirota