LOS ALAMOS IGNORED FRAUD WARNINGS“Officials at the troubled Los Alamos National Laboratory allegedly ignored for months the concerns of a lab subcontractor that employees appeared to be using the lab’s purchasing system to buy personal items,” the Los Angeles Times reports. The contract employee, identified as Jaret McDonald of Los Alamos, has been subpoenaed to […]
February 2003
HOW I SNUCK INTO LOS ALAMOS There are no armed guards to knock out. No sensors to deactivate. No surveillance cameras to cripple. To sneak into Los Alamos National Laboratory, the world’s most important nuclear research facility, all you do is step over a few strands of rusted, calf-high barbed wire. I should know. On […]
DIALING FOR DICTATORS Dropping leaflets is so Gulf War I. Now, when American psychological warfare specialists want to convince Iraq’s higher-ups to give up, they call Saddam’s men on their private cell phones, according to the New York Times. This telemarketing barrage follows in the wake of a U.S. effort to sway Iraqi opinion by […]
A WELL-TESTED EYE IN THE SKYWith so much sophisticated spy technology at the ready, why is the U.S. military using a nearly 50 year-old plane to hunt for Saddam’s illicit arsenal? Because the venerable U-2 eye in the sky, cruising at 70,000 feet, can do things other spy gear can’t, MSNBC reports. It can peer […]
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF SURVEILLANCESpooked by intrusive government database programs, like the CAPPS-II passenger screening system and Total Information Awareness? Not enough. Read this “day-in-the-life” article, which details the many ways that the government will be able to snoop on you. From the DVDs you rent to e-mail you read to the route […]
