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Return of Colossus marks D-Day Tony Sale led the team to rebuild Colossus Mk2 Colossus Mk2, a wartime code-breaker hailed as one of the first electronic computers, has been rebuilt and reunited with Bletchley Park veterans. At Bletchley, the hub of British code operations, it crucially found the keys to break the Lorenz code used by Hitler to encrypt messages to his generals. Colossus Mk2 has been painstakingly put back together over a decade by computer conservationists for Bletchley museums. As part of D-Day celebrations, 30 war coders gathered to see it once more. Besides its code-breaking prowess, Colossus was...

Secret law, secret lawsuit(snip) To no one's surprise, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit challenging the constitutionality of parts of the USA Patriot Act, the sweeping security law passed in the immediate aftermath of 9-11. To what should be everyone's shock, the mere fact of the lawsuit was kept secret under provisions of the act. "It is remarkable that a gag provision in the Patriot Act kept the public in the dark about the mere fact that a constitutional challenge had been filed in court," said the ACLU. Remarkable and also scary. (snip) National Security Letters are a kind...

The U.S. and other world governments already have detailed secret plans for first contact.When UFOs land, a series of plans created to deal with nuclear emergencies and biological attacks will be activated. Within the scientific community, the question is no longer whether extraterrestrial life exists, but if ET is smart enough to do long division. Scientists are of two minds regarding the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Skeptics acknowledge simple life-forms might be found on other planets, but insist that intelligent life is unique to Earth. Their belief is based on the assumption that Earth possesses unique physical attributes, including a...

A secret docketing system hiding some sensitive Miami federal court cases from public view has been exposed and is being challenged in two higher courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. "We don't have secret justice in this country," said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The Washington-based journalists watchdog group is asking the appellate courts to open up two Miami federal cases it says were litigated in secret.

A secret docketing system hiding some sensitive Miami federal court cases from public view has been exposed and is being challenged in two higher courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. "We don't have secret justice in this country," said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The Washington-based journalists watchdog group is asking the appellate courts to open up two Miami federal cases it says were litigated in secret. The Supreme Court asked the government to defend the secrecy. Late Monday, Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson filed the government's response -- under seal. The...

Last January, as his presidential campaign was stirring to life, Howard Dean was asked why he had decided to keep nearly half of his records as governor of Vermont under seal until 2013. "Well, there are future political considerations," Dr. Dean told statehouse reporters. "We didn't want anything embarrassing appearing in the papers at a critical time in any future endeavor." Dr. Dean now says he was joking about why he invoked executive privilege to keep 145 boxes of his official records — about 47 percent of them — under a 10-year seal. But there is ample evidence in the...

Amazing Bush Secret Kept With Iraq Visit Nov 28, 6:30 AM (ET By TERENCE HUNT President Bush holds up turkey during a surprise visit to troops at Baghdad airport Thursday, Nov. 27, 2003. ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) - Three hours from landing on a high-risk visit to Baghdad, President Bush was most anxious about keeping it a secret. "I was fully prepared to turn this baby around, come home," Bush said later aboard Air Force One. To everyone's amazement the secrecy held. The world did not learn that Bush had spent 2 1/2 hours Thursday on a Thanksgiving Day...

EXCERPTS--SELECTED BIO's OF THE WITNESSES ON THE DVD: ----------------------------------------------------- Lt Col Dwynne Arneson; US Air Force (ret.) A 26 year veteran of the USAF with an above top secret SCI-TK clearance. He worked as a computer systems analyst for Boeing and was the director of Logistics at Wright Patterson AFB. While at Malstrom AFB in Montana he saw a message that said that a circular UFO was seen hovering near the missile silos and that all of the missiles went off-line so that they could not be launched ----------------------------------------------- Lt Col Thomas Beardon A leading conceptualist in alternate energy technologies,...

The justices consider a petition for a case with no public record. MIAMI - It's the case that doesn't exist. Even though two different federal courts have conducted hearings and issued rulings, there has been no public record of any action. No documents are available. No files. No lawyer is allowed to speak about it. Period. Yet this seemingly phantom case does exist - and is now headed to the US Supreme Court in what could produce a significant test of a question as old as the Star Chamber, abolished in 17th-century England: How far should a policy of total...

<p>AS part of his black-hole budget, Gov. Gray Davis has proposed ending the requirement that city councils, school boards and other local agencies notify the public and publish the agendas of upcoming meetings.</p> <p>It is a backdoor attempt to shift the choice to post agendas -- and the costs -- to local governing bodies, which are as desperate for funds as the governor. No doubt, some of those boards and agencies would choose saving money over posting agendas.</p>

<p>Editor's note: The May edition of WND's monthly Whistleblower magazine – titled "THE NEW WORLD RE-ORDER" – is a stunning expose of the attempts by globalist organizations, secret societies and others to subjugate American sovereignty to the rule of international law administered by the United Nations.</p> <p>Do you believe in conspiracies?</p> <p>Do you believe there are powerful people who conspire together annually to solidify their grip on world domination?</p> <p>Do you believe all of this happens in secret, with the quiet complicity of the world media?</p>

Baltimore Sun May 16, 2003 Bill Would Tighten Cloak Of NSA Secrecy, Critics Say Spy agency says proposal would be labor-saver on requests routinely denied By Ariel Sabar, Sun Staff The National Security Agency, one of the country's most clandestine agencies, is seeking to cloak its activities in what critics say is another layer of secrecy. Legislation headed for the Senate floor would let the global eavesdropping agency automatically turn down requests by citizens for files on how the NSA collects intelligence. NSA officials say that they routinely deny requests for so-called "operational files" and that the legislation would simply...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 — The Bush administration has put a much tighter lid than recent presidents on government proceedings and the public release of information, exhibiting a penchant for secrecy that has been striking to historians, legal experts and lawmakers of both parties. Some of the Bush policies, like closing previously public court proceedings, were prompted by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and are part of the administration's drive for greater domestic security. Others, like Vice President Dick Cheney's battle to keep records of his energy task force secret, reflect an administration that arrived in Washington determined to strengthen the...

Goode criticizes selection of Kissinger for 9-11 panel By BOB GIBSON / Daily Progress staff writer Dec 6, 2002 ----------------------------------------------------- Fifth District Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., R-Rocky Mount, is asking President Bush to consider naming someone other than Henry A. Kissinger to head a national commission to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Goode, a conservative Republican member of the House Appropriations Committee, wrote Bush a letter this week suggesting that he name another chairman. "I do not believe that Henry Kissinger is a good choice to head the September 11th Commission," Goode wrote. "If the opportunity presents...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon ( news - web sites) will conduct a very aggressive U.S. missile defense testing plan over the next two years but will cloak the results in secrecy to foil potential attackers, the head of the program said on Tuesday. The military will inform Congress on progress in the controversial $48 billion-plus development program while withholding details from the public in areas such as U.S. ability to overcome decoys used in any missile attack, Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish told reporters. "We will not give our adversaries a free ride as we develop the system,"...

Federal Zoning Act passed in Committee by stealth! The United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW Committee) yesterday, April 25, met IN SECRET and voted to approve S. 975, the Federal Zoning Act!!! Because of growing public opposition to S.975, the committee leadership decided to HIDE from the public and meet in a closed session!!!!!! This is the SAME committee that hid from the public last December and approved S. 990, the "Son of CARA" land acquisition bill. When the public doesn't like what they are doing, the EPW Committee shuts out the public and votes in secret!...

<p>Orange County child-care providers have been slow to comply with Gov. Gray Davis' order two weeks ago to immediately notify parents if an employee or associate has a criminal record.</p> <p>Kindercare, one of California's largest providers, with 105 centers, said the company is still unsure what the state wants -- despite a letter sent by Davis on March 21 clearly ordering providers to make the notifications.</p>