On AlterNet: spies

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Why is the FBI Manufacturing Reasons to Arrest Occupy Protesters While Ignoring White Supremacist Violence?

Natasha Lennard, Salon. May 18, 2012.

A recent Rolling Stone article raises troubling questions about FBI entrapment schemes and their targets

Why the NYPD Spied On Me -- And How That's Far From the Worst They've Done

Jordan Flaherty, The Progressive. March 28, 2012.

As a white US citizen, I feel my case is a bit of an anomaly for a department that has developed a reputation for targeting immigrants and communities of color.

How the FBI's Network of Informants Actually Created Most of the Terrorist Plots "Foiled" in the US Since 9/11

Trevor Aaronson, Mother Jones. October 9, 2011.

The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them?

The Spy Who Tweeted Me: U.S. Spooks Launch Effort to Mine Social Media

Sharon Weinberger, Medill National Security Zone. September 9, 2011.

The U.S. intelligence community's secret advanced research agency is looking to mine Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, even webcams.

Blowback: Exposing the CIA's Secrecy and Censorship

Hannah Gurman, Foreign Policy in Focus. September 3, 2011.

A toxic mix of sinister acts and secrecy by the Agency spells disaster for Americans. But will they know it when it happens?

5 WikiLeaks Revelations Exposing the Rapidly Growing Corporatism Dominating American Diplomacy Abroad

Rania Khalek, AlterNet. June 21, 2011.

One of WikiLeaks' greatest achievements has been to expose the exorbitant amount of influence that multinational corporations have over Washington's diplomacy.

Hemingway revealed as failed KGB spy

John Dugdale, The Guardian July 9, 2009.

Notes from Stalin-era intelligence archives show 'agent Argo' as a willing recruit in 1941

Spies In the Classroom: The Government Is Running a Secretive Intelligence Recruitment Program in Schools

David Price, CounterPunch. June 24, 2009.

The "Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program" may become a permanent budget item, making universities unwitting agents of state intelligence.

Watching the Watchmen: What Obama Can Do About Illegal Surveillance

Emptywheel, Firedoglake. November 23, 2008.

An area that has been neglected recently is that of the illegal wiretapping and surveillance policies. That needs to change.

Honeytrap Lies and Women Spies

Rosie White, American Sexuality Magazine. November 21, 2008.

Female spies have been the subject of cultural fascination since Mata Hari, but the realities they face are quite different from fiction.

Private Security Firm Spied on Environmental Groups for Corporate Clients

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. April 15, 2008.

A private security firm infiltrated environmental groups, collected their phone records and confidential internal documents.