Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the United States saying his life would be in danger. As the Spanish newspaper El País reported last year a private security firm, Undercover Global spied Assange when he lived in the Ecuador embassy in the United Kingdom, spying on him 24/7 on behalf of the CIA. Undercover Global...
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Michigan Man Arrested for Threatening Whistleblower’s Attorney Mark Zaid
The ugliness of President Trump’s attacks on the whistleblower who first exposed his scheme to extract political favors from the Ukraine government has reached its logical culmination. Mark Zaid, the whistleblower’s attorney, received a death threat last year that has resulted in the arrest of a supporter of the president. The email came from Brittan...
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Faulty Israeli Election App Is an Intelligence Disaster
This story comes from Yossi Melman, a well-informed Israeli journalist with a long record of reporting on the country’s security services. The story was published in Ha’aretz, Israel’s best news site. So I think it is reliable. The story resonates with the Iowa caucuses fiasco, in which a deficient app led to disaster. In Israel,...
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The CIA Used a Swiss Company to Spy on Countries for Decades–Or Was It NSA?
The company, Crypto AG, which sold encryption machines to countries around the world market, was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BN).. The two spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages. The...
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How Conspiracy Theories Fuel Venezuela’s Crisis
The Caracas Chronicles is an independent news blog reporting from the Venezuelan capital, where government repression, economic contraction and U.S. sanctions have generated a miserable political impasse. Enrique Bernardo Núñez notes how conspiracy theories tend to make the couuntry’s bad situation worse. Conspiracy theories are kind of like tricky publicity: it’s not that they aren’t...