intelligence
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Iran Newslinks 20-21 December 2011
21 December 2011 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… 21 December 2011 US and Iran: From enemies to partners Asia Times Online Today at 11:00 The United States and Iran are closer to the brink of a dangerous confrontation, as a result of which it is fair to describe the situation as… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 19 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowles.info Cables on Bradley Manning’s computer ‘exactly matched’ WikiLeaks documents The Guardian A forensic investigator who examined Bradley Manning’s army computers following his arrest discovered thousands of US embassy cables and Guantánamo detainee reports that matched exactly the documents published by WikiLeaks, the soldier’s pretrial … http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/19/cables-bradley-manning-computer-wikileaks?newsfeed=true Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 18 December 2011
18 December 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks investigators ‘feared Bradley Manning had links to foreign agents’ The Guardian At a preliminary hearing in the case of Private Bradley Manning – the soldier suspected of being a WikiLeaks source – an army computer crimes specialist spoke of his initial concerns of involvement by an overseas agency, noting… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 18 December 2011
18 December 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning hearing: court told of Iraq unit’s intelligence security chaos The Guardian A shocking lack of basic discipline and intelligence security at the unit in which Bradley Manning worked before his arrest for allegedly transferring the largest trove of state secrets in American history to WikiLeaks has been revealed… Continue reading
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Blair into Blah doesn’t go: anatomy of a con By William Bowles
The fake Niger documents reached both British and US intelligence agencies, who no doubt verified that they were fakes but apparently neglected to tell anyone. The documents sat around, probably until sometime in early-mid 2002 when, at least according to high-ranking US intelligence officials, they came under intense pressure from the Bush administration to include… Continue reading