Reply #26: Dunnigan's predicted this for awhile, but he might have already known

[sofa king]

For example, this post on December 13, 2005.

I pay a lot of attention to Strategy Page because author James Dunnigan has impressive sources within the Department of Defense and the intelligence community, and has had them for the better part of twenty years. But there's another reason, not unrelated.

There are persistent rumors that one of the more recent and valuable intelligence collection devices is some sort of mechanism by which the US intelligence community is aware of news stories as they are filed, rather than when those stories are actually published, even on the Internet (see NSA expert James Bamford's article on the Rendon Group here, where it's called "Livewire").

This tool was purportedly developed because the spooks were getting annoyed at being scooped by CNN on a regular basis. Among other things, "Livewire" potentially provides a 12- to 48- hour window of opportunity for the federal government to react to bad news--or to censor or contradict that bad news before it actually becomes public. It almost certainly involves intercepting stories as they are turned in to the editor, either surreptitiously or with the cooperation of the media.

Dunnigan's posting date of June 7 here in the U.S. does not necessarily precede Zarqawi's actual (supposed, this time) death at roughly 6 am. local time on June 8 in Iraq. Does Dunnigan have access to Livewire, or access to someone who does? Maybe. He probably also has access to people within SOCOM, so he may have heard of it directly from the horse's mouth.

Strategypage has also created a public version of the terrorist speculation market, part of the Total Information Awareness program that was to be run by Iran-Contra felon Admiral John Poindexter. It was ostensibly shut down, but Doug Thompson claims it was simply reopened in Arlington without Congressional oversight.

So I read Dunnigan's site occasionally just to keep my finger on the pulse of the neofascist shadow government which now controls our lives. That, I think, is called a "fair warning" to the rest of you.