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US Outsources Its Africa Spying
US Outsources Its Africa Spying By Spencer Ackerman Email Author June 15, 2012 | 9:30 am Air Force Lt. Col. Douglas Lee, commander of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing’s MC-12 squadron, displays… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Spies in Africa’s Skies: New Contractors for the Pentagon
Spies in Africa’s Skies: New Contractors for the Pentagon by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog June 18th, 2012 In 1994, a Turkish couple named Fatih and Emren Ozmen, bought up a nondescript company named… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Contractors run U.S. spying missions in Africa
Contractors run U.S. spying missions in Africa By Craig Whitlock, Published: June 14 ENTEBBE, Uganda — Four small, white passenger planes sit outside a hangar here under a blazing sun, with… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
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U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa
Under a classified surveillance program code-named Creek Sand, dozens of U.S. personnel and contractors have come to Ouagadougou in recent years to establish a small air base on the military side… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Ex-Blackwater executives finger CIA in weapons trial
Ex-Blackwater executives finger CIA in weapons trial Under fire In 2005, five Blackwater executives presented guns to King Abdullah II when he visited the contractor’s headquarters in Moyock, N.C. Later, they… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Peace”: Intelligence Contracting and the Ballad of Dewey Clarridge
Book Discussion “Outsourcing War and Peace”: Intelligence Contracting and the Ballad of Dewey Clarridge by Chris Borgen This is the third day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Risk and the fabrication of apolitical, unaccountable military markets: the case of the CIA ‘Killing Program’
Research Article Risk and the fabrication of apolitical, unaccountable military markets: the case of the CIA ‘Killing Program’1 ANNA LEANDER Abstract This article argues that risk is central in (re)producing the… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
U.S. Seeks to Calm Terrain Team Controversy
U.S. Seeks to Calm Terrain Team Controversy May. 3, 2012 – 04:55PM By BEN IANNOTTA U.S. Northern Command wants the world to know it has no plans to send U.S.… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
‘Do No Harm’
Commentary: ‘Do No Harm’ The controversy over the U.S. Army’s employment of anthropologists in its Human Terrain System seemed to have cooled, yet anthropologists Robert Albro and Hugh Gusterson say their… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Que Curioso! U.S. Army Cultural Advisers Now Eyeing Mexico
Que Curioso! U.S. Army Cultural Advisers Now Eyeing Mexico By Noah Shachtman May 2, 2012 1:56 pm Back in 2006, the U.S. Army began a controversial program to send cultural specialists… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading