Man to be arraigned in Dallas skyscraper bombing plot 08:18 AM CDT on Friday, September 25, 2009 By JASON TRAHAN, TODD J. GILLMAN and SCOTT GOLDSTEIN / The Dallas Morning NewsA 19-year-old Jordanian citizen is expected to make an appearance before a federal magistrate in Dallas this morning after authorities accused him of attempting to [...]
WASHINGTON — The FBI destroyed its files on former CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite two years ago under a policy that has been criticized by researchers for allowing potentially valuable records to be wiped out.A search of the agency’s main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cronkite’s name were [...]
UFO? Mystery airplane buzzes the Banks BY SANDY SEMANS | SENTINEL STAFF What appeared to be a dark colored C-130 transport plane barely cleared the tree tops around the Dare County Regional Airport on Friday and again on Sunday afternoon. The aircraft swooped down at the airport, followed the path of the runway and then [...]
AP source: Census worker hanged with ‘fed’ on body By DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY (AP) – 20 minutes ago WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word ‘fed” was scrawled on the [...]
Eight years after terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta practiced ‘touch & go’s’ off the runway at the Venice Municipal Airport, the men he did business with there have not been called to account for running a continuing criminal enterprise at the same time their two flight schools, in Naples and Venice FL, were being used to [...]
Regular readers know that I dislike Facebook and other social networking sites. I'm always hesitant to discuss Facebook's CIA origins, even though the Agency linkage is (as we have seen in previous posts) well-documented. I haven't had an easy time articulating the nature of my suspicions about social networking schemes. So far, the best I've [...]
TIME TO CHANGE BERNANKE’S MEDICATION? Secret White House letter to G-20 by Greg Palast Tuesday, September 22, 2009, New York For The Huffington Post I still get a thrill whenever I get my hands on a confidential memo with “The White House, Washington” appearing on the letterhead. Even when—like the one I’m looking at now—it’s [...]
Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after [...]
On Friday, we reported on the coming exclusive American Conservative cover story interview with formerly-gagged FBI translator turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds by quoting the magazine's own teaser description of the piece as "explosive." Over the weekend, we received an embargoed look at the final version of the AmCon interview by former CIA officer Phil Giraldi, [...]
WASHINGTON — Prolonged stress from the CIA's harsh interrogations could have impaired the memories of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a scientific paper published Monday. The methods could even have caused the suspects to create — and believe — false memories, contends [...]