Subject:

Espionage and Intelligence

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Washington State Patrol: Where 'Guantanamo' On Your Resume Will Get You a Job

    In a normal job interview, it'd count against you if you bragged about your ability to interrogate detainees at Guantanamo Bay. But Washington State Patrol doesn't conduct normal job interviews.

  • Film

    December 21, 2011

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A Stylish, Engrossing Adaptation of John le Carré

    In a normal job interview, it'd count against you if you bragged about your ability to interrogate detainees at Guantanamo Bay. But Washington State Patrol doesn't conduct normal job interviews.

  • Calendar

    September 14, 2011

    Bush

    In a normal job interview, it'd count against you if you bragged about your ability to interrogate detainees at Guantanamo Bay. But Washington State Patrol doesn't conduct normal job interviews.

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Susan Lindauer, Ex-P-I Reporter and Accused Spy for Iraq, a True Believer of 9/11 Conspiracy

    Lindauer​A postscript to last week's item on 9/11 Truthers: Former Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Susan Lindauer is among the true believers of the inside-job theory. Lindauer made global headlines in 2004 as a reputed U.S. traitor and alleged spy for Saddam Hussein, then fell from the sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Supreme Court Axes Lawsuit Against Boeing for Post-9/11 Torture Flights

    ​In the days after Sept. 11, 2001, a gaggle of suspected terrorists were rounded and sent off to secret overseas locations for some tortu... I mean "enhanced interrogation." But how did the baddies get to their locations de waterboard? Easy, they flew on a Boeing subsidiary. This, of course, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    How the CIA Celebrates Earth Day

    ​Spying on the enemies of America is not a carbon-neutral enterprise. There are invisible-ink spills, greenhouse gases from black helicopters, and of course the secret documents--piles and piles of secret documents. Fortunately, the Central Intelligence Agency has an earth-conscious plan for d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Jacob Appelbaum, WikiLeaks Enabler and New University of Washington Employee, Is Working on . . . Who Knows?

    ​UPDATE: Jacob Appelbaum says "there's nothing mysterious going on." Details about Appelbaum's work at UW after the jump. You won't find Jacob Appelbaum, the University of Washington's connection to WikiLeaks, listed in the school's directory. Even an assistant in the computer science and eng ... More >>

  • News

    December 22, 2010

    Jacob Appelbaum's Boss Isn't Telling

    The WikiLeaks insider's new UW gig is a secret.

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Where Are WikiLeaks' Media Friends? UPDATED

    ​A post from Michael Lacey, Village Voice Media's Executive Editor: UPDATED Where are the First Amendment's establishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down Wikileaks? Hackers with computers, not hacks with press passes, have been the first line of resistance. Mor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    WikiLeaks Supporters Try to Hack Amazon, Settle For PayPal Instead

    ​"Anonymous Operations," the unofficial name of an unofficial group of internet hackers looking to seek revenge against websites that they think have wronged WikiLeaks, had planned on attacking Amazon today in a move called "Operation Payback." But apparently the Seattle-based company was a bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    WikiLeaks Cable Dump Shows Brazilian President is No Fan of Boeing Because It's an American Company

    ​According to WikiLeaks' latest data dump (and we're thrilled that it's officially been labeled a "dump") Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would love to buy 36 fighter jets from Boeing, if only Boeing wasn't an American company.

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Tableau Software Boots WikiLeaks Without Prodding, Finds Swift and Harsh Backlash Among Users

    ​It took a personal phone call from a United States Senator and right wing calls for a boycott, before Amazon agreed to quit hosting WikiLeaks's servers earlier this week. Tableau Software, another Seattle-based company (albeit an exponentially smaller one), however, just barred WikiLeaks from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Julian Assange Says Using Amazon to Host WikiLeaks Servers Was All Just a Free Speech Test

    ​Infamous WikiLeaks head and human-elf hybrid, Julian Assange, took the internets today for a live chat with the UK's Guardian newspaper. Besides ripping his home country of Australia, the United States and diplomats from seemingly all walks of life, he contends that when he partnered with Ama ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Amazon Boycott-Calls Now Coming From WikiLeaks Supporters Instead of Haters

    ​Yesterday, we reported about how people all over (well, mainly conservative bloggers) were calling for a boycott on Amazon over its hosting of the servers of secret data dumping website WikiLeaks. Well, now that Joe "Droopy Dog" Lieberman made a phone call and got Amazon to give WikiLeaks' se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Calls to Boycott Amazon Spring Up Over Hosting of WikiLeaks Servers

    ​UPDATE: After inquiries by Sen. Joe Lieberman over its hosting of WikiLeaks' servers, Amazon has now given the boot to the controversial site. More here. As we reported yesterday, in the hours before WikiLeaks published its latest cache of secret government files, a hacker tried to shut it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    WikiLeaks Saved From Hack Attack by Amazon Servers

    ​Despite pissing off seemingly every lawmaker and authority figure in America, Julian Assange, the infamous, ivory-haired head of secret-file-publishing website WikiLeaks, seems quite at home running his site through an American company's servers. That company: Seattle's own Amazon. It's a goo ... More >>

  • News

    August 18, 2010

    Open Tap: Is the NSA Still Monitoring Private Web Activity?

    ​Despite pissing off seemingly every lawmaker and authority figure in America, Julian Assange, the infamous, ivory-haired head of secret-file-publishing website WikiLeaks, seems quite at home running his site through an American company's servers. That company: Seattle's own Amazon. It's a goo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Alexey Karetnikov, the 12th Russian Spy, Worked at Microsoft

    ​Alexey Karetnikov, the 12th (and final?) member of a Russian spy ring meant to infiltrate U.S. policy-making circles, worked at Microsoft. The 20-something graduate of St. Petersburg State (the Fightin' Ruskies) was recently deported after spending nine months as a software tester on the Redm ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2010

    Watching the Protesters

    These spies may have known too much.

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Former Seahawks Quarterback Jim Zorn's Name Is Now a Verb

    You know your legacy is lacking when your name becomes synonymous with a public neutering.​Former Seahawks quarterback Jim Zorn has had a lousy couple of months. In October, six weeks into his second year coaching the Washington Redskins, Zorn was stripped of his play-calling duties by despoti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Bombing Death of Dane Paresi, Others, Sparks a New Congressional Look at Blackwater-CIA Contracting

    Dane Paresi, shielded others in blast​The December suicide-bombing by an Al Qaeda double agent that killed former Fort Lewis green beret Dane Paresi and six others at a CIA office in Afghanistan has led to yet another congressional review of Paresi's civilian employer, Xe, formerly known as Bl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 16, 2009

    Burn After Reading

    Dane Paresi, shielded others in blast​The December suicide-bombing by an Al Qaeda double agent that killed former Fort Lewis green beret Dane Paresi and six others at a CIA office in Afghanistan has led to yet another congressional review of Paresi's civilian employer, Xe, formerly known as Bl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Silly Pilot, Boeing Conspires With the Government to Kidnap and Torture Suspected Terrorists, Not to Kill Pilots!

    You've got it all wrong, Keyter!Despite the solid bennies, sometimes working for the Lazy B isn't as easy as its cracked up to be. At least, that's what a dude named Anthony Keyter would surely say. The seemingly unhinged Gig Harbor man is a former Boeing pilot and, acting as his own lawyer, is suin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Were the Feds Trying to Spy on Doc Hastings?

    Last year, Barack Obama won over civil libertarians by dissing George Bush's executive power and domestic spying policies. Then he went and supported pretty much the same policies himself. One of those policies is the National Security Administration's surveillance of American communications; basica ... More >>

  • Film

    March 18, 2009

    PICK Duplicity: Julia Roberts and Clive Owen Bring Their A-Game

    Last year, Barack Obama won over civil libertarians by dissing George Bush's executive power and domestic spying policies. Then he went and supported pretty much the same policies himself. One of those policies is the National Security Administration's surveillance of American communications; basica ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Obama Keeps Lid On Boeing Torture Flights

    Following the lead of no less than the Bush Administration, the Obama administration yesterday moved to protect the secret veil surrounding the use of rendition - a.k.a. torture - flights enabled by a wholly owned Boeing Co. subsidiary based out of Seattle. Though the flights supposedly are to end i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

    Respectful Dissent at the Cinema

    Following the lead of no less than the Bush Administration, the Obama administration yesterday moved to protect the secret veil surrounding the use of rendition - a.k.a. torture - flights enabled by a wholly owned Boeing Co. subsidiary based out of Seattle. Though the flights supposedly are to end i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2008

    Her Daze In Court

    Following the lead of no less than the Bush Administration, the Obama administration yesterday moved to protect the secret veil surrounding the use of rendition - a.k.a. torture - flights enabled by a wholly owned Boeing Co. subsidiary based out of Seattle. Though the flights supposedly are to end i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    Profiles in Courage: Arlen Specter

    Following the lead of no less than the Bush Administration, the Obama administration yesterday moved to protect the secret veil surrounding the use of rendition - a.k.a. torture - flights enabled by a wholly owned Boeing Co. subsidiary based out of Seattle. Though the flights supposedly are to end i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    From New Hampshire to Iran, with Love

    Following the lead of no less than the Bush Administration, the Obama administration yesterday moved to protect the secret veil surrounding the use of rendition - a.k.a. torture - flights enabled by a wholly owned Boeing Co. subsidiary based out of Seattle. Though the flights supposedly are to end i ... More >>

  • Diversions

    December 19, 2007

    Stop Waiting for Daytime

    Flip the kayak of your expectations and paddle upside down in the darkness.

  • News

    July 18, 2007

    The Worst Internal Scandal in NSA History Was Blamed on Cold War Defectors’ Homosexuality

    But what if they weren’t gay?

  • Film

    June 20, 2007

    Take Two: There Is an Embedded Thriller in a Mighty Heart

    But what if they weren’t gay?

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2006

    Rendition Airways

    But what if they weren’t gay?

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    Flog Is My Co-Pilot

    Boeing is alleged to be a travel agent for torture.

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2006

    Amphibious Traitors

    Boeing is alleged to be a travel agent for torture.

  • News

    January 4, 2006

    The Constitutional Crises of 2006

    Boeing is alleged to be a travel agent for torture.

  • News

    September 22, 2004

    Two Views of 9/11

    Whose conspiracy theory to believe: the official one, involving Ahmed Ressam, or those of possible crackpots?

  • News

    April 21, 2004

    Bad Days Ahead

    A leaked coalition memo reveals that even true believers see the seeds of civil war in the occupation of Iraq.

  • News

    March 24, 2004

    The Spy-cific Northwest

    Journalists, sailor, diplomat—spies. Why is Washington so spooky?

  • News

    February 11, 2004

    A Boob Exposed

    Though the real Bush agenda is cover-up.

  • News

    November 5, 2003

    Buzz

    The media, Seattle Center, and homeland security.

  • News

    October 8, 2003

    Wilsongate

    The ambassador minced no words in Shoreline in August.

  • News

    July 9, 2003

    Intel From Inside

    Police occasionally are authorized to infiltrate groups, and protest organizers are certain they were a target.

  • News

    April 30, 2003

    Nickels, Locke, and the FBI

    Security background checks on local officials raise civil liberties alarms.

  • News

    November 7, 2001

    American ingenuity

    Security background checks on local officials raise civil liberties alarms.

  • News

    July 26, 2000

    Soft Schell?

    Police intelligence officers personally briefed mayor on protesters' WTO plans.

  • News

    August 25, 1999

    Clinton in your computer

    Police intelligence officers personally briefed mayor on protesters' WTO plans.

  • News

    November 18, 1998

    The
    C(ocaine)
    I(mportation)
    A(gency)

    Drug dealing only begins to tell the story of the CIA's handiwork.

  • News

    May 13, 1998

    Enough is enough

    Drug dealing only begins to tell the story of the CIA's handiwork.

  • More >>
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