The National Reconaissance Office — the government agency in charge of all U.S. spy satellites — is a mess, Aviation Week reports. Morale is in the toilet, with too many people asking the snoops to do too many things with too little money. To make matters worse, the agency hasn’t put any large spy satellites […]
From the monthly archives:
August 2003
The hunt for Saddam’s WMD is going so badly that U.S. officials are starting to wonder whether they’ve been tricked by Iraqi double-agents, according to the Los Angeles Times. Former Iraqi operatives have confirmed since the war that Hussein’s regime sent “double agents” disguised as defectors to the West to plant fabricated intelligence. In other […]
Could law enforcers one day forecast crime like the weather? Wired magazine says yes. Of course, they say yes — in bright orange 72-point type — to everything techno, so who knows…
Pentagon spending on “black,” or classified, projects has almost doubled since the mid-90’s, the Washington Post says. Relying on this think tank report, the paper notes that such outlays are now at their highest levels — $23.2 billion — since 1988. “But unlike the 1980s, when it was widely known that the ‘black’ budget was […]
“U.N. inspectors have found traces of highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium at an Iranian nuclear facility,” the Associated Press is reporting. “The find heightened concerns that Tehran may be running a secret nuclear weapons program.“ Sure does. THERE’S MORE: “Now it appears that Iran’s rapid progress toward a nuclear weapons capacity came thanks to substantial assistance […]
