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JEDIYoda

Lifer
Jul 13, 2005
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old news..already knew that even though some are not factual at all!!
A waste of good bandwidth!
 

CrackRabbit

Lifer
Mar 30, 2001
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Originally posted by: LordSegan
***World War III Almost Started in 1995

I haven't heard that one before..

Anyone have the info on it?


Russian missile detetction system malfunction. It said there were incoming missiles when there wern't. Thankfuly the systems operator determined that the warning was in error and didn't launch a "retalitory" strike.
IIRC.
 

Votingisanillusion

Senior member
Nov 6, 2004
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THE CIA COMMITS OVER 100,000 SERIOUS CRIMES EACH YEAR
It's no big secret that the Central Intelligence Agency breaks the law. But just how often its does in is a shocker. A Congressional report reveals that the CIA's spooks "engage in highly illegal activities" at least 100,000 times each year (which breaks down to hundreds of crimes every day). Mind you, we aren't talking about run-of-the-mill illegal activities ? these are "highly illegal activities" that "break extremely serious laws."
In 1996, the House of Representatives' Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a huge report entitled "IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century." Buried amid hundreds of pages is a single, devastating paragraph:
The CS [clandestine service] is the only part of the IC [intelligence community], indeed of the government, where hundreds of employees on a daily basis are directed to break extremely serious laws in countries around the world in the face of frequently sophisticated efforts by foreign governments to catch them. A safe estimate is that several hundred times every day (easily 100,000 times a year) DO [Directorate of Operations] officers engage in highly illegal activities (according to foreign law) that not only risk political embarrassment to the US but also endanger the freedom if not lives of the participating foreign nationals and, more than occasionally, of the clandestine officer himself.
Amazingly, there is no explanation, no follow-up. The report simply drops this bombshell and moves on as blithely as if it had just printed a grocery list.

One of the world's foremost experts on the CIA ? John Kelly, who uncovered this revelation ? notes that this is "the first official admission and definition of CIA covert operations as crimes." He goes on to say:
The report suggested that the CIA's crimes include murder and that "the targets of the CS [Clandestine Service] are increasingly international and transnational and a global presence is increasingly crucial to attack those targets." In other words, we are not talking about simply stealing secrets. We are talking about the CIA committing crimes against humanity with de facto impunity and congressional sanctioning.
Other government documents, including CIA reports, show that the CIA's crimes include terrorism, assassination, torture, and systematic violations of human rights. The documents also show that these crimes are part and parcel of deliberate CIA policy (the [congressional] report notes that CIA personnel are "directed" to commit crimes).
 

Rainsford

Lifer
Apr 25, 2001
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Originally posted by: Votingisanillusion
THE CIA COMMITS OVER 100,000 SERIOUS CRIMES EACH YEAR
It's no big secret that the Central Intelligence Agency breaks the law. But just how often its does in is a shocker. A Congressional report reveals that the CIA's spooks "engage in highly illegal activities" at least 100,000 times each year (which breaks down to hundreds of crimes every day). Mind you, we aren't talking about run-of-the-mill illegal activities ? these are "highly illegal activities" that "break extremely serious laws."
In 1996, the House of Representatives' Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a huge report entitled "IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century." Buried amid hundreds of pages is a single, devastating paragraph:
The CS [clandestine service] is the only part of the IC [intelligence community], indeed of the government, where hundreds of employees on a daily basis are directed to break extremely serious laws in countries around the world in the face of frequently sophisticated efforts by foreign governments to catch them. A safe estimate is that several hundred times every day (easily 100,000 times a year) DO [Directorate of Operations] officers engage in highly illegal activities (according to foreign law) that not only risk political embarrassment to the US but also endanger the freedom if not lives of the participating foreign nationals and, more than occasionally, of the clandestine officer himself.
Amazingly, there is no explanation, no follow-up. The report simply drops this bombshell and moves on as blithely as if it had just printed a grocery list.

One of the world's foremost experts on the CIA ? John Kelly, who uncovered this revelation ? notes that this is "the first official admission and definition of CIA covert operations as crimes." He goes on to say:
The report suggested that the CIA's crimes include murder and that "the targets of the CS [Clandestine Service] are increasingly international and transnational and a global presence is increasingly crucial to attack those targets." In other words, we are not talking about simply stealing secrets. We are talking about the CIA committing crimes against humanity with de facto impunity and congressional sanctioning.
Other government documents, including CIA reports, show that the CIA's crimes include terrorism, assassination, torture, and systematic violations of human rights. The documents also show that these crimes are part and parcel of deliberate CIA policy (the [congressional] report notes that CIA personnel are "directed" to commit crimes).

That's stupid. Of course intelligence agencies break foreign laws, how do you think the intelligence gathering business works? A CIA officer walks up to the Russian military headquarters and asks to see their list of armored divisions? I don't think most people are surprised by this, or at least they shouldn't be. This doesn't mean ALL their law breaking activities are ok, but the fact that they break foreign laws is not itself very incriminating. I'd be more worried if the report said they WEREN'T, as they would not be doing their job.
 

Stuxnet

Diamond Member
Jun 16, 2005
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Originally posted by: CitizenKain
I looked up #9, and it was an Airforce plane carrying two bombs that crashed in NC. One of the bombs floated down because it's chute depolyed, the other free-fell into the swamp. Parts of the bomb weren't recovered and the area is now owned by the government as they test the area's water for extra radition. Calling the bombs dropped is a bit of a stretch.

Most of these are a stretch for the same reason. The only reason they're "surprising" is because of how they're presented and worded.

:thumbsdown:
4/10

 

Votingisanillusion

Senior member
Nov 6, 2004
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Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Votingisanillusion
THE CIA COMMITS OVER 100,000 SERIOUS CRIMES EACH YEAR
It's no big secret that the Central Intelligence Agency breaks the law. But just how often its does in is a shocker. A Congressional report reveals that the CIA's spooks "engage in highly illegal activities" at least 100,000 times each year (which breaks down to hundreds of crimes every day). Mind you, we aren't talking about run-of-the-mill illegal activities ? these are "highly illegal activities" that "break extremely serious laws."
In 1996, the House of Representatives' Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a huge report entitled "IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century." Buried amid hundreds of pages is a single, devastating paragraph:
The CS [clandestine service] is the only part of the IC [intelligence community], indeed of the government, where hundreds of employees on a daily basis are directed to break extremely serious laws in countries around the world in the face of frequently sophisticated efforts by foreign governments to catch them. A safe estimate is that several hundred times every day (easily 100,000 times a year) DO [Directorate of Operations] officers engage in highly illegal activities (according to foreign law) that not only risk political embarrassment to the US but also endanger the freedom if not lives of the participating foreign nationals and, more than occasionally, of the clandestine officer himself.
Amazingly, there is no explanation, no follow-up. The report simply drops this bombshell and moves on as blithely as if it had just printed a grocery list.

One of the world's foremost experts on the CIA ? John Kelly, who uncovered this revelation ? notes that this is "the first official admission and definition of CIA covert operations as crimes." He goes on to say:
The report suggested that the CIA's crimes include murder and that "the targets of the CS [Clandestine Service] are increasingly international and transnational and a global presence is increasingly crucial to attack those targets." In other words, we are not talking about simply stealing secrets. We are talking about the CIA committing crimes against humanity with de facto impunity and congressional sanctioning.
Other government documents, including CIA reports, show that the CIA's crimes include terrorism, assassination, torture, and systematic violations of human rights. The documents also show that these crimes are part and parcel of deliberate CIA policy (the [congressional] report notes that CIA personnel are "directed" to commit crimes).

That's stupid. Of course intelligence agencies break foreign laws, how do you think the intelligence gathering business works? A CIA officer walks up to the Russian military headquarters and asks to see their list of armored divisions? I don't think most people are surprised by this, or at least they shouldn't be. This doesn't mean ALL their law breaking activities are ok, but the fact that they break foreign laws is not itself very incriminating. I'd be more worried if the report said they WEREN'T, as they would not be doing their job.

You are supporting a criminal organization. You are criminally minded. Just deal with how low you have fallen!
JFK wanted to dismantle the CIA...the CIA killed him. All CIA agents should be jailed for life. They are a big bunch of fascists who turned this country into a dictatorship.
 

Rainsford

Lifer
Apr 25, 2001
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Originally posted by: Votingisanillusion
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Votingisanillusion
THE CIA COMMITS OVER 100,000 SERIOUS CRIMES EACH YEAR
It's no big secret that the Central Intelligence Agency breaks the law. But just how often its does in is a shocker. A Congressional report reveals that the CIA's spooks "engage in highly illegal activities" at least 100,000 times each year (which breaks down to hundreds of crimes every day). Mind you, we aren't talking about run-of-the-mill illegal activities ? these are "highly illegal activities" that "break extremely serious laws."
In 1996, the House of Representatives' Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a huge report entitled "IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century." Buried amid hundreds of pages is a single, devastating paragraph:
The CS [clandestine service] is the only part of the IC [intelligence community], indeed of the government, where hundreds of employees on a daily basis are directed to break extremely serious laws in countries around the world in the face of frequently sophisticated efforts by foreign governments to catch them. A safe estimate is that several hundred times every day (easily 100,000 times a year) DO [Directorate of Operations] officers engage in highly illegal activities (according to foreign law) that not only risk political embarrassment to the US but also endanger the freedom if not lives of the participating foreign nationals and, more than occasionally, of the clandestine officer himself.
Amazingly, there is no explanation, no follow-up. The report simply drops this bombshell and moves on as blithely as if it had just printed a grocery list.

One of the world's foremost experts on the CIA ? John Kelly, who uncovered this revelation ? notes that this is "the first official admission and definition of CIA covert operations as crimes." He goes on to say:
The report suggested that the CIA's crimes include murder and that "the targets of the CS [Clandestine Service] are increasingly international and transnational and a global presence is increasingly crucial to attack those targets." In other words, we are not talking about simply stealing secrets. We are talking about the CIA committing crimes against humanity with de facto impunity and congressional sanctioning.
Other government documents, including CIA reports, show that the CIA's crimes include terrorism, assassination, torture, and systematic violations of human rights. The documents also show that these crimes are part and parcel of deliberate CIA policy (the [congressional] report notes that CIA personnel are "directed" to commit crimes).

That's stupid. Of course intelligence agencies break foreign laws, how do you think the intelligence gathering business works? A CIA officer walks up to the Russian military headquarters and asks to see their list of armored divisions? I don't think most people are surprised by this, or at least they shouldn't be. This doesn't mean ALL their law breaking activities are ok, but the fact that they break foreign laws is not itself very incriminating. I'd be more worried if the report said they WEREN'T, as they would not be doing their job.

You are supporting a criminal organization. You are criminally minded. Just deal with how low you have fallen!
JFK wanted to dismantle the CIA...the CIA killed him. All CIA agents should be jailed for life. They are a big bunch of fascists who turned this country into a dictatorship.

Wow...
 

Agrooreo

Senior member
Jul 26, 2005
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nvm. my statement was made in a post above i hadn't reached yet about the bombs in nc.
 

Motek

Senior member
Jan 4, 2006
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Originally posted by: jbourne77
Originally posted by: CitizenKain
I looked up #9, and it was an Airforce plane carrying two bombs that crashed in NC. One of the bombs floated down because it's chute depolyed, the other free-fell into the swamp. Parts of the bomb weren't recovered and the area is now owned by the government as they test the area's water for extra radition. Calling the bombs dropped is a bit of a stretch.

Most of these are a stretch for the same reason. The only reason they're "surprising" is because of how they're presented and worded.

:thumbsdown:
4/10

that still half true :D