News Updates from CLG
19 January 2015
19 January 2015
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Previous edition: Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian
'rebels', which NSAssociate relegated to the spam bin. See: Google Filter Instructions for CLG Newsletter.
GCHQ captured emails of journalists from BBC, Reuters, the Guardian,
the New York Times and others
--Terrorists, listed immediately above
investigative journalists on the document, were given a much higher 'capability'
score of four out of five, but a lower 'priority' of two. --Agency
includes investigative journalists on 'threat' list | 19 Jan 2015
|GCHQ's bulk surveillance of electronic communications has scooped up emails to
and from journalists working for some of the US and UK's largest media
organisations, analysis of documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden
reveals. Emails from the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le
Monde, the Sun, NBC and the Washington Post were saved by GCHQ and shared on the
agency's intranet as part of a test exercise by the signals intelligence agency.
The journalists' communications were among 70,000 emails harvested in the space of less than 10
minutes on one day in November 2008 by one of GCHQ's numerous
taps on the fibre-optic cables that make up the backbone of the
internet.
N.S.A. Tapped Into North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack,
Officials Say |
18 Jan 2015 |The trail that led American officials to blame North Korea for the
destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November winds back to
2010, when the
scrambled to break into the computer systems of North Korea. The American spy
agency [in violation of
international law] drilled
into the Chinese networks that connect North Korea to the outside world, picked
through connections in Malaysia favored by North Korean hackers and penetrated
directly into the North with the help of South Korea and other American allies,
according to former United States and foreign officials, computer experts later
briefed on the operations and a newly disclosed N.S.A. document.
'CIA killed prisoners, made it look like suicide' - Guantanamo
guard | 15 Jan 2015 |A former Guantanamo
Bay prison guard and Marine explained in details what makes him believe three
problematic detainees were killed at CIA black site in Guantanamo and their
death was covered up as a triple suicide. Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman was
on duty at the notorious prison camp when the three men died, and insists the
official version of events is "impossible," he told Vice News. The three men
were Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, 37, from Yemen, Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi, 30, from
Saudi Arabia, and Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani, 22, also from Saudi Arabia. None of
them had been charged with any crime.
US troops training Syrian 'moderates' could top 1,000 -
Pentagon | 17 Jan 2015 | The Pentagon
announced that a mission to train the "moderate" Syrian opposition may involve
over 1,000 US troops. The first soldiers may flow into the region in a month,
while the trained fighters may return to Syria to "fight ISIS" by the end of
2015. The earlier announced number suggested 400 pairs of US boots on the ground
in countries neighboring Syria, where the training will take place. However,
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters in a press briefing on Friday that
the total number "could approach 1,000." "It might even exceed that. I can't
rule that out," Kirby added.
Kiev's new offensive in Donbass may lead
to irreversible consequences - Moscow | 19
Jan 2015 | Kiev's attempt to solve the Ukrainian crisis with military force is a
blunder, which may affect the country's territorial integrity, Russia's foreign
deputy minister said. On Sunday, Kiev renewed its assault in southeast Ukraine.
"It's the biggest, even strategic mistake of the Ukrainian authorities to bank
on a military solution to the crisis in Ukrainian society and to all of
southeast Ukraine's problems. This can lead to irreversible consequences for
Ukrainian statehood," Grigory Karasin, Russia's deputy foreign minister, was
quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.
Donetsk shelled as Kiev 'orders massive fire' on militia-held E.
Ukraine | 19 Jan 2015 | Ukrainian troops
have launched a massive assault on militia-held areas Sunday morning after an
order from Kiev, a presidential aide said. The self-proclaimed Donetsk
republic's leader accused Kiev of trying to restart the war. The order to launch
the offensive was issued early approximately at 6:00 am, according to Yury
Biryukov, an aide to President Petro Poroshenko.
Clashes in Yemen's Capital Turn Deadly | 19 Jan 2015 | (Sana'a) Deadly violence erupted here on Monday as
government forces clashed with Houthi militants who are ramping up demands for a
greater say in the crafting of a new constitution. The fighting left nine people
killed and 67 injured, the country's health ministry said. Unknown gunmen fired
on a vehicle carrying Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah, who escaped unhurt,
according to Minister of Information Nadia al Sakkaf.
NORAD conducting exercises this week in Washington D.C.
area | 18 Jan 2015 | The North American
Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will conduct a series of training flights over
Washington this week in order to test its response capability to possible air
threats. NORAD and its geographical component, the Continental United States
NORAD Region (CONR), will conduct the regional exercise, called Falcon Virgo,
Tuesday night through Friday morning between midnight and 5:30 a.m. each day,
CONR said in a press release.
Former FBI Special Agent Says CIA Kept Him From Helping to Stop 9/11
Terror Attacks | 18 Jan 2015 | An FBI
special agent who lost his job in 2008 told
Newsweek his story about how the 9/11 hijackers slipped through the cracks at
the FBI and CIA more than a decade ago. Mark Rossini said the CIA prevented him
from going to FBI headquarters with the information that two known terrorists,
who later went on to carry out the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, had
entered the US. Government reports on 9/11 blame a vague "intelligence failure"
for the terrorist attack that killed about 3,000 people in 2001 and provide
little clarity on why the CIA didn't communicate crucial information about the
hijackers to the FBI.
This is fertile false flag ground: UK and US to Stage Cyber War Games
to Test Banks | 16 Jan 2015 | Britain and
the US will stage cyber "war games" together to boost both countries' resistance
to cyberattacks. During talks in Washington David Cameron and President Barack
Obama also agreed to set up of a joint "cyber cell" to defeat execute cyberattacks, the
White House said in a statement. The unprecedented amount of intelligence
co-operation and information sharing between the two nations topped the agenda
of the talks. Plans to force social media
companies to share secret information were also expected to be
discussed.
US, UK want to tackle 'technical issues' of accessing encrypted
private information | 17 Jan
2015 | Western intelligence agencies must be able to intercept any
communications in order to thwart potential terror attacks being hatched by
extremist groups, and this must be done without violating citizens' rights, US
and British leaders said. British authorities don't need "backdoors" into the
websites and communication protocols used for online conversations, Cameron
added. Instead, he said: "We believe in very clear front doors through legal
processes that should help to keep our countries safe."
Charlie Hebdo attack spurs
EU anti-terror 'projects' |
19 Jan 2015 | European states have agreed to launch anti-terror "projects" with
Muslim-majority nations and improve Arabic skills in response to the Charlie
Hebdo attacks in France. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini made the
announcement after talks in Brussels, but gave no details...The EU would step up
intelligence-sharing both internally and with countries affected by terrorism,
she said, and increase its work to prevent funding for terrorist networks. The
European Parliament, she added, would be asked to work on legislation covering
the sharing of airline passenger data.
European countries seek sweeping new powers to curb
terrorism | 16 Jan 2015 |
Belgian leaders on Friday sought sweeping new powers to monitor and punish their
citizens for involvement with terrorism, joining France in an effort to rewrite
laws just hours after dozens of arrests across Europe offered dramatic evidence
of the threats security officials say are facing the continent. Belgian leaders
said Friday that they would seek to expand the list of offenses for which they
could strip some people of their citizenship. France has fast-tracked the
convictions of those accused of hate speech, handing down years-long prison
sentences within hours of the initial offense. British Prime Minister David
Cameron called for eagle-eyed surveillance of social
networks.
Terror cell warning as Europe scrambles to handle
threats | 16 Jan 2015 |
European counterterrorism agencies scrambled Friday to assess the potential
danger of a complex and growing terrorism threat exposed by the arrests of more
than a dozen people with suspected links to Islamic extremists. As many as 20
sleeper cells of between 120 and 180 people could be ready to strike in France,
Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, a Western intelligence source told CNN.
European Union and Middle East intelligence agencies had identified an "imminent
threat" to Belgium, and possibly also to the Netherlands, the source told
CNN.
UK and US Announce Joint Anti-Terror Push | 16 Jan 2015 | Britain and the US are to establish a new joint
group to counter violent extremism, Barack Obama and David Cameron have
announced. Speaking after talks with the President at the White House, the Prime
Minister said the US and UK are united in their drive to fight "poisonous and
fanatical ideology". The announcement came amid heightened fears of a fresh
terror attack in the wake of the Paris attacks which left 17 people dead and the
arrest of over two dozen people in
anti-terror raids in Belgium, Germany and France.
They have also agreed to stage cyber "war
games" to boost both countries' resistance to cyber
attacks.
At least a dozen people detained in detained in Paris over
attacks | 16 Jan 2015 At least a dozen
people have been detained in the Paris region overnight in connection with last
week's shootings, the city prosecutor's office said Friday. The individuals
arrested are suspected of providing logistical support for the attacks. The
arrests were made in the Grigny and Fleury-Merogis neighborhoods, and those
arrested were in Amedy Coulibaly's entourage, the Paris prosecutor's
spokesperson said.
No 'Je suis Charlie' or media coverage at all for psycho
Saudi Arabia: US ally Saudi Arabia declares all atheists are terrorists in
new law to crack down on political dissidents | 1 Apr 2014 | Saudi Arabia has introduced a
series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report
from Human Rights Watch. In a string of royal decrees and an overarching new
piece of legislation to deal with terrorism generally, the Saudi King Abdullah
has clamped down on all forms of political dissent and protests that could "harm
public order"....To that end, King Abdullah issued Royal Decree 44, which
criminalises "participating in hostilities outside the kingdom" with prison
sentences of between three and 20 years, Human Rights Watch
said.
Secret Service investigate multiple shots fired outside Vice
President Joe Biden's Delaware home --Local authorities and Secret Service
were unable to catch the suspect | 18 Jan
2015 | Shots rang out Saturday night outside the Delaware home of Vice President
Joe Biden. Multiple rounds were fired from a vehicle speeding past the New
Castle County residence around 8:25pm, according to the Secret Service. 'This
occurred on a public road outside the established security perimeter. The shots
were heard by Secret Service personnel posted at the residence and a vehicle was
observed by an agent leaving the scene at a high rate of speed,' Secret Service
spokesman Robert Hoback told CNN.
Delta flight evacuated at RDU after bomb threat made on
Twitter | 17 Jan 2015 |
Airport officials say a Delta flight from Atlanta to Raleigh-Durham
International Airport was evacuated after landing Saturday afternoon due to a
bomb threat made on a social media site. Law enforcement swarmed the Delta plane
after it landed at RDU. An airport official says they received a threat on
Twitter that there was possibly a bomb on board the plane. "We had to single file go past a dog, they sniffed
us," said passenger Chris
Hart.
Prominent North Korean Defector Lied About His Story of Captivity,
Said to Be 'Still Lying' | 18 Jan 2015 | He was the [CIA] poster boy for human rights
atrocities in North Korea; a soft-spoken survivor of the North's cruel gulags
who eventually met such dignitaries as John Kerry in his campaign to focus
attention on the North’s abuses. Now, that survivor fabulist, Shin
Dong-hyuk, is retracting central facts of his widely reported life story,
memorialized in a 2012 book, "Escape from Camp 14," by a former Washington Post
reporter that has been published in 27 languages. Mr. Shin's latest account has
raised its own questions. "He is still
lying," said a North Korean defector who
said he was in Camp 18 from 1967 to 1988 and would speak to journalists only on
condition of anonymity because he still had family members in the
North.
Breached pipeline spills up to 50,000 gallons of oil into Yellowstone
River | 19 Jan 2015 | A
breached oil pipeline in Montana has spilled as many as 50,000 gallons of crude
oil in and around the Yellowstone River, according to the state. Bridger
Pipeline LLC has yet to determine the cause, but has claimed the public is in no
immediate danger. Cleanup crews were at work on Monday to address the mess,
which emanated from a break in the Poplar Pipeline system about 9 miles upstream
from Glendive in eastern Montana. Bridger Pipeline said the rupture in the
12-inch steel pipe occurred early Saturday and lasted for one hour, dispensing
no more than 1,200 barrels, or about 50,000 gallons, of crude
oil.
2014 officially the hottest year on
record | 16 Jan 2015 | The year 2014 -
after shattering temperature records that
had stood for hundreds of years across virtually all of Europe,
and roasting parts of South America, China and Russia - was the hottest on
record, with global temperatures 1.24F (0.69C) higher than the 20th-century
average, US government scientists said on Friday. A day after international
researchers warned that human activities had pushed the planet to the
brink, new evidence of climate change global warming
arrived. The world was the hottest it has been since systematic records
began in 1880, especially on the oceans, which the agency confirmed
were the driver of 2014's temperature rise. The global average temperatures over
land and sea surface for the year was 1.24F (0.69C) above the 20th-century
average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) and Nasa
reported. [See also: 15 of the hottest spots around the world in
2014.]
Newlywed Dies of Sepsis After Getting Flu, Following Flu Shot
Mandated By Wisconsin Hospital | 16 Jan
2015 | A Wisconsin newlywed started to feel sick with the flu on a Monday. By
Friday, she was dead, ABC News reported. Katie McQuestion, a 26-year-old radiologist [at St. Catherine's
Medical Center in Pleasant Prairie] from Kenosha, Wisconsin, got a flu shot to comply with hospital policy and
had no underlying medical conditions, but she caught the flu and developed a
serious complication from it: sepsis. She died on Jan.
2.
Romney Signals Interest in 2016 Run for
President | 17 Jan 2015 | Mitt Romney made
it clear publicly on Friday night what he has spent the last week conveying in
private to Republicans across the country: He is considering another
presidential campaign. "I'm giving some serious consideration to the future,"
Mr. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, told a group of
Republicans gathered here for the party's winter meeting. Speaking below deck on
the Midway, an aircraft carrier converted to a floating museum in the San Diego
harbor, Mr. Romney criticized President Obama and sketched out a three-pronged
campaign platform should he seek the presidency for a third
time.
Supreme Court to Decide Marriage Rights for Gay Couples
Nationwide | 16 Jan
2015 | The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether all 50 states must allow gay and lesbian couples to marry,
positioning it to resolve one of the great civil rights questions in a
generation before its current term ends in June. The decision came just months
after the justices ducked the issue, refusing in October to hear appeals from
rulings allowing same-sex marriage in five states. That decision, which was
considered a major surprise, delivered a tacit victory for gay rights,
immediately expanding the number of states with same-sex marriage to 24, along
with the District of Columbia, up from 19.
Seth Rogen hits out at blockbuster American Sniper likening it to a
'Nazi propaganda film' [It
is.] | 19 Jan 2015 |Hollywood star and director Seth Rogen issued a
statement about this weekend's blockbuster hit American Sniper, comparing the
Clint Eastwood-directed film to Nazi propaganda. 'American Sniper kind of
reminds me of the movie that's showing in the third act of Inglorious Basterds,'
Rogen tweeted on Sunday. Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds culminates with
an assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler at the premiere of a fictional
propaganda film called 'Stolz der Nation' which translates to Nation's Pride.
One of the characters of the film is a haughty German soldier who plays himself
in Nation's Pride, a movie about how he killed 200 Allied soldiers from a clock
tower in one battle.
Oscars race row: Rev Al Sharpton calls for emergency Hollywood
meeting over 'insulting' absence of black actors among
nominees | 16
Jan 2015 | Reverend Al Sharpton has said the Oscar nominations are 'appallingly
insulting' and compared Hollywood to the Rocky Mountains, saying the higher you
get 'the whiter it gets'. Rev Sharpton has called for an emergency Hollywood
meeting to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards, after no black
actors or actresses received nominations. He was due to meet allies and
colleagues to discuss plans for before or during the February 22 ceremony.
[Al Sharpton should win for best actor
in an attempt to appear outraged in a television farce.
--MDR]
Ice Pelts Northeast Killing at Least Five and Triggering
Pileups | 19 Jan 2015 | Icy rain pelted
parts of the Northeast on Sunday, triggering dangerous conditions that led to a
fatal 60-vehicle pile-up in Pennsylvania, the deaths of six people and the
closing of several bridges in the region. At least one person was killed and 30
other people were injured in the pile-up on Interstate 76 in Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania, state police said. Four more people died in crashes in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut because of extremely slick
roads.
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