Time is running out to sign Stephen Bassett's White House petition to compel the Obama White House to explain why Bill and Hillary Clinton were quietly arranging an investigation of UFOs in the early 1990s.
You can read about Bassett's effort and if interested, how to sign the petition at the White House website here.
It's been an interesting week in the mainstream media with expose' stories on U.S. intelligence services in the" Washington Post" and the "Wired Threat Level blog."
James Bamford's latest look at the U.S. National Security Agency for "Wired" magazine is a must read investigation.
According to Bamford, "The NSA has become the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever." And, as previously reported here, NSA may also be involved with spooky paranormal psychic spying as well.
One source told Bamford about" a breakthrough in cracking complex encryption code" -- the kind of code used not only by foreign governments, but by U.S. citizens as well.
"Everybody's a target."
Bamford explains how the NSA has turned its intelligence collection superpowers towards American citizens, by establishing listening posts to "collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas."
Meanwhile, Ian Shapira at the "Washington Post" takes us inside the breakup of a CIA marriage.
Imagine learning that the person you are planning to marry is a covert officer working for the Central Intelligence Agency. And then imagine the shock of learning that the role of CIA wife includes potentially dangerous situations in foreign nations.
That's what happened to one woman whose marriage unraveled, in part, from the stress of being used by the Agency and her husband as a convenient cover for Agency tasked operations on foreign soil.
The woman, who was first told by her future husband that he worked for the U.S. State Department -- after she met him on an Internet dating site in 2005 -- soon learned that her future husband was an operations officer for the CIA. What her future husband, and the Agency, did not tell her was how she would become an unwitting addition to her husbands covert-operations tool kit.
The unwitting wife told Shapira, "[My husband] used me and our [very young] daughter... to run cover for his undercover operations... I never felt safe, never knew who people were or why they were interested in us, or why they were photographing us."
Shapira's story focuses on the human side of the breakup, but there is another, more disturbing theme on the surface: To what extent is the U.S. government willing to put innocent civilians in harms way to further an intelligence agenda? And here, I refer to the use of the Internet for intelligence collection, as well as the more dangerous role played when CIA operatives use their families to lure so-called 'developmentals' to spy on foreign nations.
I have raised this issue before, but in the context of spies playing spy games on the Internet. Shapira's story explains what can happen when you get too close to an Agency operative.
One incident described by the wife involved the CIA officer using his wife and child as cover while he monitored a potential informant who was being psychologically tested to see how he would react when another Agency contact failed to show at a prearranged meeting.
The relationship hit a crisis point when police were called to the couple's home after a fight broke out between the parties, with the wife accusing the husband of excessive drinking and the husband claiming the wife suffered from anxiety and paranoia.
The husband, the covert CIA officer, even claimed to have felt threatened by the wife when she wielded a baby bottle.
Some of the wife's divorce-related discovery questions were blocked when her husband invoked the National Security Privilege and the Military and States Secrets Privilege.
I'll have more to say about this in a future article --" I can neither confirm nor deny having additional intelligence" -- but I will say this: there is more to this story than was reported by the Post.
If you have ever wondered how these kind of intimate relationships mesh with the secrecy needs of U.S. intelligence, Shapira's article is a must-read.
And now, one small matter: it has been reported that intelligence services have been instructed to quietly discredit certain bloggers -- in some cases, with methods as simple as introducing minor typographic and spelling errors into their blog posts. Of course, we are also human, and make plenty of our own mistakes, for which we apologize in advance.
It's been an interesting year over at STARpod.us, the new STARstream Research website.
Migrating the older Microsoft-based website to a new Wordpress content management based site has been time consuming but the new site promises to be a more efficient way for us to provide you with the latest news from the strange world of weird science, psychic intelligence and perhaps, extraterrestrial alien contact.
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