The Young Turks/Air America
Listen to my interview with The Young Turks show on Air America, broadcast live on Tuesday. These guys are full of fire and brimstone and are really engaging. A fun interview.
The Shorrock Files
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
The Shorrock Files
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
Intelligence
Democracy Now! 5/19/08
Listen or watch my interview with the great Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
Salon: Blacklisted by the Bush government
My latest, based on reporting in March and April in Saudi Arabia, Washington, D.C., and Ashland, Oregon. Spying on Americans without warrants, charges based on secret evidence, a small town divided by fear. Welcome to the world of Bush’s “specially…
It’s official: Carlyle buys Booz Allen intel unit
As I reported two months ago, the Carlyle Group, the world’s largest and most powerful private equity fund, will buy the government contracting business of Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the nation’s largest intelligence contractors. The word went out today…
‘SPIES’ on Fresh Air & Firedoglake
Listen to my interview this week with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. What a delight to be on a show where the host actually reads your work! Thank you to Terry for being such a great interviewer. Plus: I participated in…
SPIES FOR HIRE in Kos
Thanks for this nice review to Meteor Blades of Daily Kos. You won’t read the words “ruling class” in Spies for Hire, and I’m sympathetic, because few writers who want to be taken seriously will unhesitatingly employ those words in…
Private spies
My latest, in Sunday’s New York Post. Here’s the graphic (click twice to make it readable).
SPIES FOR HIRE
Out today, Tuesday, May 6! Watch this page for updates on upcoming interviews and book appearances. Available for web purchases at Powell’s Books, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. And in audio CD too.
Carlyle may jump back into spy business
My latest, from CorpWatch: The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity funds, may soon acquire the $2 billion government contracting business of consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the biggest suppliers of technology and personnel to…
CIFA tunes in to Cambone story
Domestic surveillance in America: The Pentagon’s Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) office signed onto this website today to read my story on the contract it recently awarded to a British contractor linked to former defense intelligence boss Stephen Cambone. The IP…
Stephen Cambone, War Profiteer
My latest, from CorpWatch: A Pentagon office that claims to monitor terrorist threats to U.S. military bases in North America — and was once reprimanded by the U.S. Congress for spying on antiwar activists — has just awarded a multi-million…
Domestic Spying Inc.
My latest, from CorpWatch. “A new U.S. intelligence institution will allow government spy agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the country for the first time. Contractors like Boeing, BAE Systems, Harris Corporation, L-3 Communications and Science Applications International…
“Ashes” Revisited
“Legacy of Ashes,” the new book on the CIA by the New York Times’ Tim Weiner, has been getting rave reviews from the mainstream press. Now, finally, people with historical knowledge of the agency are beginning to poke holes in…
NSA subpoenas follow the money
There’s an important detail in the NSA subpoena requests issued by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that’s been left out of most news accounts. In addition to asking for documents pertaining to the telecommunication industry’s collaboration with the NSA, the…
How to get the attention of U.S. Intelligence
I never in a thousand years imagined that I could force the Director of National Intelligence to make a statement about a document I obtained as a journalist. But it happened. Earlier this month, in Salon, I reported that 70…
A $60 billion intel budget?
R.J. Hillhouse, who publishes an excellent blog on intelligence outsourcing, has parsed the DNI Powerpoint slides I obtained last week and come up with some surprising conclusions. “By reverse engineering the numbers in an underlying data element embedded in the…
“We can’t spy…If we can’t buy!”
My latest, from Salon: “On May 14, at an industry conference in Colorado sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government revealed for the first time how much of its classified intelligence budget is spent on private contracts: a…
CIA in a Fog(go)
AP: Former CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo was indicted Friday for accepting bribes in return for steering contracts towards an old buddy. “According to the new indictment, Foggo provided (Brent) Wilkes with ‘sensitive, internal information related to our national security,’…
Tenet Cashes In
My latest on the Intelligence Industrial Complex, in Salon. Tenet’s making lots of dough from intelligence and defense contractors – $2.3 million in 2006 alone.
BOOZing it up at the DNI
My latest article, in Salon. Jan. 8, 2007 | The Bush administration’s choice last week of J. Michael McConnell to be director of national intelligence is a major blunder — and not just because the man who will be overseeing…
Death squads return to the Philippines
An alarming report from Asia Times today about the Philippines, one of America’s closest allies in East Asia. Three political activists with the Movement for National Democracy (KPD), a coalition of trade unions, farmers’ and fishermen’s organizations, and women’s and…
The sky’s the limit
TOM ENGELHARDT on US intelligence. All you need to know. “Whatever numbers follow have to be taken with a large grain of unverifiable salt. But we do know this: the IC is simply enormous with, seemingly, a life of its…