Friday, July 31, 2009

Evading Oversight Laws - The military , the police and the use of contractors- Sweet deals for contractors and an off-books method

NATO, domestic spying, Torture, private contracts and more:

The recent exposure of John Towery, also known as “John Jacob”, who posed as an activist but was in fact a member of the Force Protection Service at Fort Lewisthe with addresses at both Fort Drum, Upstate New York,USA and Brussels, associated with NATO

Posing as an anarchist while working for the Military - "John Jacobs":




And recent News (July 2009) around the use of spies, infiltrators, agent provocateurs (French for "inciting agent") hired through private contracting firms to infiltrate political groups, harass its members and also :

"fusion centers" - originally created to improve the sharing of anti-terrorism intelligence , : some fusion centers have grown to include the participation not just law enforcement, but other government entities, the military and even select members of the private sector - more HERE

In the NEWS:

Declassified documents and interviews:

Article:

From Guantanámo to your doorstep: the intelligence industry's revolving cash door

By Julian Assange (investigations editor, WikiLeaks) (HERE)

And the recent revelations around the use of spies, infiltrators, agent provocateurs (French for "inciting agent") hired through private contracting firms to infiltrate domestic political groups and the role of the "domestic intelligence "fusion" centers".


Documents HERE:

- Confidential 1525 page file HERE - Wikileaks

VIDEOS:

Christopher Pyle, Military Surveillance of Civilians today and the Church Committee in the 70's:





MORE AT

http://valtinsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/four-important-articles.html


http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Spying_on_anti-war_protesters:_US_Army_Concept_of_Operations_for_Police_Intelligence_Operations%2C_4_Mar_2009