A reader notes that, among the FBI documents related to domestic surveillance the ACLU obtained, one document details surveillance of a protest, planned by Los Angeles Catholic Worker, of a 2001 test of what was then called the National Missile Defense (NMD) System. The FBI imagined that Catholic Worker and other groups might attempt to …
Reuters: Zhu Chenghu Disciplined
by | 2005-12-22 | 1 Comment
Reuters reports that Chinese General Zhu “I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons” Chenghu received an “administrative demerit” recently from the National Defense University, barring him from promotion for one year. An administrative demerit is the second lightest punishment on a scale of one to five, but still potentially damaging to an …
CIRUS
by | 2005-12-20 | 5 Comments
Of the many things I wanted to do on Monday (and didn’t), one was to pop over to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ new digs on 19th St. for The CIRUS Reactor and The U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement: Will India Declare a “Peaceful Uses Only” Reactor To Be a Civilian or a Military Facility? starring Sandy …
DefenseTech on Eavesdropping
by | 2005-12-20 | No Comments
It’s a little hard to focus on the impending resumption of EU3-Iran talks when the Bush Administration is riding roughshod over the Constitution. Damhoudère, Praxis Rerum Criminalium, Antwerp, 1556 Ha, ha. Just kidding. I love you guys. Please don’t waterboard me in Gitmo. Anywho. No one is covering this NSA eavesdropping story better than Noah …
