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WASHINGTON: Foreign governments are increasingly using women and naturalised American citizens to spy on the United States with globalisation and information technology making it difficult to stop employees from stealing state secrets, according to a report on Wednesday here. "It does point to a kind of confluence of factors -- the increase in the number of naturalised citizens, people who have foreign attachments and people who cite divided loyalty as a motive. These are all signs that the globalisation we see going on is also happening in espionage," said Katherine Herbig, author of the report issued by Defence Personnel Security...

<p>Maryland's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, has been hinting that restrictions on firearms ownership might have prevented the recent string of shootings that have terrorized the region and left at least six people dead. Although careful not to appear to be making political hay of the carnage, Mrs. Townsend nonetheless quipped not-so-elliptically the other day that there must be a new debate "about how best to protect our citizens," and that existing gun control laws "save lives."</p>

Attorneys for a decorated U.S. Navy intelligence officer have told a federal court in Seattle that the crew of a Russian vessel believed on a spying mission intentionally fired a laser at a Canadian air force helicopter sent to photograph the ship, permanently injuring the officer and the pilot. Larry Klayman, president and chief general counsel for the nonprofit legal group Judicial Watch, said Cmdr. Jack Daly, then a lieutenant, was injured when the crew of the Kapitan Man allegedly fired a laser at him as the ship laid off Puget Sound near Washington state five years ago. Daly is...

Thomas Lamar "Tommy" Bean is selling used cars in south Texas right now, and to him, that's the fault of Congress. It's Congress, after all, that won't allow him to regain his license to sell guns. On Oct. 16, his case comes before the U.S. Supreme Court. And if he gets his way, Bean, a convicted felon, will be dealing guns again. At issue in United States v. Bean, No. 01-704, is a provision in federal law that allows felons to obtain a permit to own and sell firearms. The case has placed gun-rights advocates in the unusual position of...

On 1997's El Corazón, Steve Earle wished for the return of Woody Guthrie to a world sorely lacking voices of righteous dissent. Here, Earle stops pining for ghosts and gruffly makes his own claim to the agit-folk crown. The controversial "John Walker's Blues" drew attention to the album and the ire of many who misunderstood it, but it's only one of many topical tunes on a disc that issues a kind of call to arms: over the distorted guitars and garbage-pail drums of "Amerika v. 6.0" and in the spare and creepy satire "Conspiracy Theory," Earle rallies listeners to resist...

You've heard the reports since September 11th, 2001. Hundreds of arrests at airports all over the United States of workers who provided false information with their employment applications, had engaged in identity theft/fraud, many of them were illegal immigrants, some with criminal records. Most of those arrested seemed to be ramp workers, security screeners, etc., many with access to restricted areas. Just this month, 28 workers were arrested at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. With the exception of some arrests that were made at the Salt Lake City Airport in December 2001, rarely have the words "mechanics" or "maintenance personnel"...

WorldNetDaily Exclusive Farmers, hunters march for 'Liberty and Livelihood'Huge turnout expected today for biggest civil liberties protest in British history Posted: September 22, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Sarah Foster © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Crowds expected to number in the hundreds of thousands are descending on London from all parts of the British Isles, to be joined by supporters from other countries, for what its sponsors predict will be the biggest protest march ever held in Britain. The coordinating Countryside Alliance, an umbrella organization, expects over 300,000 demonstrators, with some estimates going as high as 500,000 or even 1 million. They're arriving by...

WBAL Radio1090AM Baltimore Ron Smith's "Something to Say" CommentaryWeekdays at 6:50AM | rsmith@wbal.com | Ron Smith Show Page Senseless? September 11, 2002    Ron Smith's Something to Say Everywhere one turns this day, organized mourning for those killed by the attack on America a year ago dominates. The TV channels, the radio stations, the newspapers; all filled with pathos, human interest stories about survivors and their grief, and with memories of the 3,000 or so souls who perished that fateful September 11, 2001. We live in an age of media excess, so who can be surprised that the first anniversary of...

About the Poll About the Earth Summit Send to a Friend Take the Poll For the Media Get the Results Welcome to this first ever Online Global Poll on the issues of the environment and sustainable development. Create history. Voice your opinion. Click on your region to begin the poll We all share the same earth and the same environment. We believe that everyone's voice should be heard in debating the policies and making the decisions that affect us all. The earth belongs to all of us. This first in the world, Online Global Poll is being conducted in...

<p>WASHINGTON -- When the White House three months ago held its first hearing on whether to let airline pilots carry guns, the Bush administration didn't bother sending anyone to register its opposition. The idea seemed unlikely to go far.</p> <p>Not anymore. The Republican-controlled House has since approved such a move. Despite objections from airline executives, gun-control groups and some aviation-safety experts, the Democrat-led Senate appears ready to follow suit. Now the administration, which announced its opposition to arming pilots less than three months ago, says it is reconsidering that stance.</p>

MOSCOW (AP) - Edward Lee Howard, the former CIA agent who defected to Moscow, was killed as a result of a head injury, a former KGB agent told a newspaper in a report Thursday. Confusion has surrounded the circumstances of Howard's July 12 death, with earlier reports saying the 50-year-old either fell down stairs or possibly died in a car crash in the exclusive Moscow suburb of Zhukovka. His body was cremated before reports of his death became public. Viktor Andrianov, a former KGB agent who said he got to know Howard well after being appointed one of his contacts...

Kibbutznik tipped to head the Mossad By Amir Oren A slender, pleasant, 48-year-old kibbutznik, with light-colored eyes - newly retired from the Mossad, and totally unknown to the public and even to many senior officers in other security agencies - appears to be leading a pack of four contenders to become the next head of the Mossad. The contender, born and raised at Kibbutz Bet Alfa, left the Mossad a year ago at the end of a successful term as head of an operational unit. His identity should be made public, but for a variety of controversial security reasons,...

Overdue recognition for a Cold War hero Arnold Beichman Hoover Institution Published 8/4/2002 The Canadian government has just honored - belatedly - a Soviet intelligence agent, Igor Gouzenko, who defected in Ottawa 57 years ago and revealed to the world the existence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada and the United States. Few at the time realized his defection signaled the beginning of the Cold War, Josef Stalin´s drive to conquer the Western democracies. Our own government ought to honor the memory of this man, too, because his revelations startled America into a grim realization that the Soviet wartime...

Spate of issues confront lawmakers upon return State senators had been on extended recess * GUN CONTROL: Perata has a constitutional amendment that would put a five-cent tax on each bullet sold in California to raise money for hospital emergency rooms. Perata is also one of the authors of twin bills that would allow gun manufacturers to be sued for damage caused by their weapons. * SMOKING: A bill that would raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 is moving through the Senate. Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, says his proposal would make it tougher for minors to...

<p>July 21, 2002 -- Edward Lee Howard, a former CIA case officer who escaped to Moscow in September 1985 after coming under suspicion as a spy for the Soviet Union, died there July 12, according to a family friend.</p>

ASHINGTON, July 18 — The Central Intelligence Agency today rescinded its seven-year-old guidelines requiring case officers in the field to obtain approval from top management before trying to recruit informers with questionable backgrounds, officials said.The agency acted in the face of complaints from leading lawmakers that it had failed to drop the guidelines earlier, even after Congress had directed it to do so. The agency's action came one day after a report released by a House intelligence subcommittee on terrorism criticized its 1995 guidelines requiring its case officers to obtain headquarters approval before trying to recruit "dirty" informers, individuals...

<p>LONDON — Britain and the United States have begun sending spies into Iraq to stir up rebellion in advance of a prospective invasion next year aimed at toppling Saddam Hussein, according to British military sources and leading British newspapers.</p> <p>The task of the agents, along with CIA operatives, is to make contact with opponents of Saddam and capitalize on what one military analyst described to the Times of London as a "popular loathing" of the regime.</p>

Chinese Espionage and the Department of Energy By Frederick Wettering From July 1994 to July 1996 I was detailed by CIA's Operations Directorate to the Counterintelligence Office at DOE (and for a time served as its deputy head). The following is my analysis of the recent counterintelligence problems caused by Chinese intelligence targeting of our three major national laboratories (Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia) responsible for advanced weapons research and nuclear weapons. Two Quotes: There are two quotes that directly bear on this problem. First, during his historic visit to Washington on 31 January 1979, Deng Shao-ping stated to the...

Eco - LogicOn - Line 7/15/2002 The smoking gun... How Environmentalists Intend to Rule the World By Ron Arnold Critics have long believed environmentalists were planning global domination. The problem with making a credible case against such an ambitious plan was simple: no environmental leader had published one. Yet conflicts over global warming, world trade, multinational corporations, population control, sustainable futures, and transnational government left little doubt that environmentalists in fact shared the unspoken aim of wielding supreme power over a green future. But there was no proof. For years, critics, lacking hard evidence, were reduced to piecing together a...

'Corrupt' CIA Ensures US Vulnerability to TerrorismJessica Cantelon, CNSNews.comJuly 15, 2002 CNSNews.com - The Central Intelligence Agency is "politicized" and "corrupt," the idea of a cabinet level Department of Homeland Security is a "ridiculous notion," and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were "not an act of war," but "a terrible criminal act," according to a former CIA Soviet analyst. Melvin Goodman, a current professor of international studies at the National War College in Washington, D.C., spoke recently at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in the nation's capital. According to Goodman, it's "unbelievable" the U.S. wasn't better prepared for...

Making Sustainable Development Work: Governance, Finance and Public-Private Cooperation Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks at State Department Conference, Meridian International Center Washington, DC July 12, 2002 (As Delivered) Well, thank you very much, Paula, for that warm introduction, and let me also take this opportunity to thank you as well for the superb leadership that you have been giving to this effort, especially as we prepare for next month's World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. And I'm very pleased to follow my dear friend and fellow Vietnam vet Chuck Hagel. We are members of a mutual admiration society, and...

The CIA has been widely feared and despised - even since it supposedly cleaned up its act. But from the point of view of one insider who joined in the agency's old, free-booting days, it is not interventionist enough. Robert Baer, who recently left, disillusioned, argues that if the CIA had more on-the-ground agents and information, the disaster of September 11 might have been avertedAs a teenager in Aspen, Colorado, Robert Baer wanted to be a professional ski racer. His mother, dismayed at his low academic grades, packed him off to military school. Eight years later, in 1976, after graduating...

ONDONHow fare the espionage agencies? Who's hot and who's not? Most agents and spymasters resolutely refuse to talk about their own agencies, but cheerfully rat on each other's intelligence gathering, evaluation and tradecraft. Time now for the Golden Cloak & Dagger Awards, based on professional assessments by a half-dozen of my spooky sources around the world.America's C.I.A.-N.S.A. combine is rated by its peers as unrivaled in elint (electronic intelligence), shorthanded in humint (human ears in foreign ministries or terrorist organizations) and sometimes fatally weak on timely evaluation of data. Although it has some of the best analysts in the...

<p>When, in 333 B.C., Alexander the Great led his army into the town of Gordium in Phrygia (about 100 miles west of Ankara in present-day Turkey), he encountered in front of the temple of Zeus there an oxcart tied to a pole with an intricate knot. Legend had it that whoever could untie the knot would rule all of Asia. Many before Alexander tried. All failed. Alexander solved the problem by cutting the cord with his sword.</p>

MUMBAI: Just weeks after the subcontinent seemed a hair’s breadth away from nuclear war, it turns out that sweepings off the floor of Pakistani barber shops near the Kahuta nuclear facility gave Indian intelligence agencies the first proof that Islamabad had the capability of making nuclear weapons.   In the 1980s, the Indian department of atomic energy asked spooks to obtain samples of hair from workers at Kahuta in order to check the chemical composition, says a recently-released book, Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security by defence analyst Bharat Karnad,who played a key role in framing India’s nuclear doctrine. The samples,which...

Ron Smith's Something to Say Weekday Mornings 6:50AM rsmith@wbal.com England and Gun Control -- What a Mess July 2, 2002 Ron Smith's Something to Say (July 2, 2002) Modern times have seen an ever-escalating effort on the part of Western governments to disarm their people. Gun control laws depriving individuals of their right to self-defense have gone terribly wrong if we are to believe that they have been enacted with public safety as their actual purpose. Armed crime has been skyrocketing in England and Wales ever since the government, with the Dunblane massacre as a rationale, virtually outlawed private ownership...

President Bush said he was "deeply concerned" about some of the accounting practices in corporate America and called "outrageous" the disclosure that WorldCom, which is $32 billion in debt, had hidden $3.8 billion in expenses. The president added, "We will fully investigate and hold people accountable for misleading not only shareholders but also employees." The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed fraud charges against the nation's No. 2 long-distance telephone company, as the company slid toward bankruptcy. WorldCom is being called the biggest case of crooked accounting in U.S. history, where it hid nearly $4 billion worth of expenses...

This best-selling recording was performed by the legendary John Wayne. It's finally available as Duke’s spoken-word CD of poetry. It's a must-have for all patriotic Americans... Track listings: 1. Why I Love Her 2. The Pledge of allegiance 3. The Hyphen 4. Mis Raices Estan Aqui 5. The People 6. An American Boy Grows Up 7. Face the Flag 8. The Good Things 9. Why Are You Marching, Son 10. Taps

[...]Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshhold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed. The new threat bears little resemblance to familiar financial disruptions by hackers responsible for viruses and worms. It comes instead at the meeting points between computers and the physical structures they control.By disabling or taking command of floodgates in a dam, for example, or of substations handling 300,000 volts of electric power, U.S. analysts believe an intruder could use virtual tools to destroy real-world lives and property....

June 26, 2002 C.I.A. Instructs Agencies to Use More Commercial Satellite PhotosBy JAMES RISEN ASHINGTON, June 25 — The director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, has ordered American intelligence agencies to expand their use of satellite photography provided by private companies, freeing the government's own satellites for more specialized and secretive work, intelligence officials say. Mr. Tenet has ordered that imagery from commercial satellites become the "primary source of data used for government mapping" for the military and other agencies, and that the government's satellites be used only for such tasks in "exceptional circumstances," according to a letter he...

ANTONY SUTTON: A GIANT DEPARTS NOT A REAL HUMAN BEING By: Alan Stang Even many well-informed people today don’t know who Tony Sutton was. That invisibility was a function of his integrity. At his death a couple of days ago, he would have been world famous had he not told the truth. I once accused Tony of being a vacuum cleaner, not a real human being. For instance, readers of Western Technology & Soviet Economic Development, his massive three-volume study of Soviet military capability, know it nailed down the fact that the Red Army was made here in the United...

June 21, 2002 Ridge Questioned Sharply About Plans for Security DepartmentBy DAVID FIRESTONE ASHINGTON, June 20 — Tom Ridge, the White House domestic security director, was sharply questioned today by members of Congress who were skeptical about a core function of the proposed Department of Homeland Security: its ability to receive accurate intelligence about terrorist threats. Several lawmakers said the Bush administration's plan for sharing intelligence could lead to the same turf battles and rivalries that kept the existing agencies from predicting the Sept. 11 attacks. The plan, released on Tuesday, requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central...

ASHINGTON, June 19 — The National Security Agency intercepted two cryptic communications on the day before the Sept. 11 attacks that referred to a major event scheduled for the next day, but analysts at the secret eavesdropping agency did not read the messages until Sept. 12, American intelligence officials said today. One of the conversations intercepted by the agency on Sept. 10 said that "the big match" is scheduled for tomorrow, referring to Sept. 11. A second message called the next day "zero hour." Agency analysts did not process, translate and review the intercepted Arabic communications until the day...

Word has come that some folks have begun to question my conservative credentials. That's easy to understand. There are quite a few blockheads in America today who falsely wear the label "conservative." Some blockheads equate being a conservative with ardent support of any war, no matter how unconstitutional, unnecessary and unjust the war might be. A true conservative supports the Constitution and does not support anybody or anything that violates it. Some people have said there is a resemblance between America today and the Weimar Republic, which eventually produced Adolf Hitler. I think there is some truth to that comparison....

Recent economic reports indicate that the recovery is struggling to move forward. The main barriers are high consumer indebtedness and mediocre corporate earnings. Consequently, neither consumer demand nor business investment is driving the recovery. Interest rates are low, but Federal Reserve easing has not provided the usual stimulus to spending and equity prices. Part of the problem is the reverse wealth effect from the drop in equity values. The wealth effect from the long bull market made consumers comfortable with more debt, which they used to finance second homes and high living. When the market dropped, much wealth disappeared, but...

<p>GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Faced with legal and political obstacles, managers of the Klamath Basin national wildlife refuges have given up trying to move commercial farming off land that was once marsh used by Pacific Flyway waterfowl.</p> <p>"The laws the way they are and the politics the way they are, farming is going to be part of our life," said Phil Norton, manager of the national wildlife refuges straddling the Oregon-California border. "We are trying to work with the local community."</p>

eco - logicon - line 6/15/2002. Socialazzi and the Three E's By John Loeffler France's petit mal de politique regarding Jean-Marie Le Pen, once again forced to the surface Europe's century-long struggle between communism and fascism along with its inability to recognize them as two sides of the same coin, and totally antithetical to a free society. Indeed Europe outside of the United Kingdom has always had a problem understanding the core concepts of freedom. France alone rocketed through five different governments in the same time the U.S. has had only one. Right now the entire continent is proceeding at...

ASHINGTON, June 15 — A group of midlevel operatives has assumed a more prominent role in Al Qaeda and is working in tandem with Middle Eastern extremists across the Islamic world, senior government officials say. They say the alliance, which extends from North Africa to Southeast Asia, now poses the most serious terrorist threat facing the United States. This newly constituted alliance of terrorists, though loosely knit, is as fully capable of planning and carrying out potent attacks on American targets as the more centralized network once led by Osama bin Laden, the officials said. Classified investigations of the Qaeda...

eco - logicon - line Saturday, June 15, 2002 Commentary West Virginia Officials Have Turned Their Backs On Property Owners Along The New River Parkway By Tom DeWeese T he Mayor of Hinton, West Virginia, Cleo Mathews, in an opinion editorial on May 7, 2002, accused me of being an outside agitator spreading "misinformation" against the New River Parkway. Since then, a barrage of letters with a similar theme have been published. Yes, I am from Warrenton, Virginia, and that makes me an easy target for attack. But the truth is the misinformation is coming from Mayor Mathews and the...

ASHINGTON, June 13 — Top officials of the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. have quietly negotiated a cease-fire between the two agencies, which have been in a war of news leaks and finger-pointing about the intelligence failures leading to the Sept. 11 attacks, officials familiar with the talks said today.After a briefing of President Bush last week, Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and John E. McLaughlin, the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, met outside the Oval Office, where Mr. Mueller asked for a truce and Mr. McLaughlin agreed, the officials said."The...

<p>The National Security Agency received information on September 10th that "something big" was coming, it was reported last night.</p> <p>But not until September 12 did the agency understand what the warning meant, CBS news said today.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has told its agents to inspect baggage belonging to Yemeni citizens for large sums of money, thermos bottles and night-vision goggles, a government official said.</p>

While the White House proposes the mother of all bureaucracies as a cure-all, most pundits continue playing the blame game. That's how it goes when our intelligence community misses clues and Americans wind up in body bags. Remember the feeding frenzy that followed Pearl Harbor? FDR, the Washington brass and our Hawaiian commanders were cut into bite-sized pieces and barbecued over a red-hot fire. The same gotcha drill occurred when the Reds invaded South Korea in 1950 and during the '62 Cuban missile crisis, the '68 Tet offensive in Vietnam and in dozens of subsequent intell failures, from Beirut in...

<p>Last week in this space, I wrote about President Bush's remarkable June 2 speech at West Point, in which he laid out, in effect, a liberty doctrine according to which the United States will no longer be satisfied to stand as a symbol of freedom and the success that flows from it, but instead will seek to protect and promote liberty in all parts of the world as the "single . . . model of human progress."</p>

The fabled Clinton "war room," with its alert media reflexes and craftiness in unleashing quick ripostes to potentially damaging stories, had nothing on these spooks and G-men! When it comes down to it, bureaucrats know how to handle the press as well as the politicians, judging by the ugly media brawl that has broken out between the CIA and the FBI. Neither the agency nor the bureau has pulled any punches in respective bids to paint the other as the more egregious in missing clues that might have assisted in thwarting the attacks of Sept. 11. The G-men's preferred conduit...

Question: WAS ANGLETON RIGHT? What does it say about the state of US intelligence in the late nineteen-eighties and early ninety-nineties that two top counterintellgence officials-- Aldrich Ames in the CIA's anti-Soviet counterintelligence and Robert Phillip Hanssen in the FBI Soviet counterintelligence-- were moles for the Russian Intelligence Service? Under such circumstances, who controlled the recruitments the CIA and FBI were making during this period? ANSWER: James Jesus Angleton, the chief of the CIA's counterintelligence staff from in 1953 to 1974, principal concern was not with "moles" per se, but with the inherent vulnerability of intelligence services to systematic deception....

ASHINGTON, June 7— A re-examination of years of terrorist plots and attacks around the world, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, suggests that American intelligence agencies profoundly underestimated Al Qaeda's reach and aspirations for more than a decade as it grew from obscurity into a global terrorist threat, lawmakers and investigators said this week.As Congressional investigators look back far beyond the series of signals missed before the Sept. 11 attacks, they are seeking answers to many questions about Al Qaeda that law enforcement and intelligence agencies still cannot answer themselves, officials said.In particular, they said, Congressional investigators are trying...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration's long-held assertion that it lacked the evidence to avert the terror attacks is giving way to a crucial question: What did the government know before Sept. 11? The administration's theme has been that it had no specific information and therefore could not stop the plotters.</p>

Article shows how the notion that the anthrax killer was a "home-grown" terrorist was concocted and spread by Marxist professor Barabara Hatch Rosenberg, who stole her theory from a TV series.

WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- U.S. investigators lifted "a great number" of fingerprints from abandoned al Qaida training camps, caves and other hideouts in Afghanistan, a senior law enforcement official told United Press International on Thursday. The prints from the unknown suspects have been added to a massive fingerprint database that will be used to screen incoming aliens, so that al Qaida militants who escaped U.S. forces in Afghanistan cannot bring their fight into the United States. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of al Qaida and Taliban fighters disappeared from Afghanistan as U.S. forces and the Northern Alliance resistance group advanced and...

WASHINGTON – Foul-ups by FBI officials here have become so common that even street agents are poking fun at their once-hallowed bureau, saying it now stands for "Famous But Incompetent." Yet, over the past five years, headquarters has showered top FBI officials with hundreds of thousands of dollars in prestigious rank awards – on top of annual performance bonuses. Alongside the parade of embarrassing FBI scandals, bungles and debacles – from Richard Jewell to Filegate to Robert Hanssen – a parade of Hoover Building bureaucrats picked up fat checks at black-tie honorary ceremonies hosted by the State Department. Special agents...