CIA not finding coded messages in Al-Jazeera broadcasts

[moodforaday]

Guardian ran a great article a few days ago on how CIA looked for but failed to find coded messages in Al- Jazeera TV broadcasts. Your tax money at work:

Messages of fear in hi-tech invisible ink
(snip)
But to experts, the idea al-Qaida would be passing steganographic messages through TV broadcasts is ludicrous. "When they worked out the tactics of the 9/11 perpetrators, what they did was get in a car, drive some place and meet someone and have a conversation, they didn't even get online," says Peter Honeyman, steganography expert and scientific director of the centre for information technology integration at the University of Michigan. "Why were the CIA believing that they were seeing something in al-Jazeera broadcasts? I can't fathom it."

The CIA had been using computers to look for hidden messages in the headlines that scroll along the bottom of al-Jazeera broadcasts, a feature used by most rolling news broadcasters. What the CIA was up to found its way into the intelligence community rumour mill and got back to the satellite channel.

"We were aware there were intelligence reports saying that al-Qaida or its supporters might be communicating in ways that were unconventional. There were certain whispers that perhaps they were using al-Jazeera and other organisations, something we refuted categorically," says Jihad Ballout, al-Jazeera's spokesman in Qatar. "It's funny and it's frustrating at the same time as far as al-Jazeera's concerned. We're fed up of these rumours that al-Jazeera is a conduit for communication for any group."

Confirmation that the CIA had been hunting for hidden messages in broadcasts - and had turned up some curious results - came in June when US officials talked to NBC News. During the interview, the officials told how technicians at the CIA's directorate of science and technology believed they had found numbers embedded in al-Jazeera's news strip that corresponded with a hotch-potch of targets. There were dates and flight numbers, coordinates for high-profile sites such as the White House, as well as information apparently pointing to the small town of Tappahannock, Virginia.
(snip)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1546179,00.html

Note that steganography is a real enough field of study and well-understood as a technique of hiding information. But this is a case of spooks spooking themselves out. They could have used numerology with the same result. It would be funny if it weren't real. People could be put in jail on this kind of "evidence".

[elehhhhna]

1. Maybe they should just let Sibel Edmonds, et. al TRANSLATE some goddam

RECORDINGS. Hell, might learn something.

Naaaaaaah.

[SledDriver]

2. Not surpised...

Cindy does rule!

[moodforaday]

8. Steganography in action

And you're way better than CIA! :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. She does.. and so do you *hugs*

[ret5hd]

4. maybe they should get that professor from "A Beautiful Mind" to look...

he could find hidden messages ANYWHERE!

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. I've found coded messages in MSM stories and Fox "Terror Alert" banners

"Always be frightened. Vote Republican."

[BlueEyedSon]

6. They can't?? Even after they put them there???

[EVDebs]

7. Maybe because the NSA and military intelligence aren't sharing ? eom

[FlemingsGhost]

9. They are written on the WMD. (n/t)

Flem.

[CityZen-X]

10. Check, CBS, Cnn, Fox, ABC, NBC, ect.....

their coded messages have been effect since 9/11, most likely before.
Phuck Amerikan Media!!!!

[Al-CIAda]

11. CIA’s involvement with the American press

"Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services — from simple intelligence- gathering to serving as go-betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors-without-portfolio for their country. Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested it the derring-do of the spy business as in filing articles, and, the smallest category, full-time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements America’s leading news organizations.

The history of the CIA’s involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception . . . . - Carl Bernstein, 1977

http://www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/Media%20Readings/Berstein%20-%20CIA%20and%20the%20Media.htm


The Times reported that over the last twenty years, the CIA owned or subsidized more than fifty newspapers, news services, radio stations, periodicals and other communications facilities, most of them overseas. These were used for propaganda efforts, or even as cover for operations. Another dozen foreign news organizations were infiltrated by paid CIA agents. At least 22 American news organizations had employed American journalists who were also working for the CIA, and nearly a dozen American publishing houses printed some of the more than 1,000 books that had been produced or subsidized by the CIA. When asked in a 1976 interview whether the CIA had ever told its media agents what to write, William Colby replied, "Oh, sure, all the time."

http://www.stanford.edu/class/e297c/war_peace/media_war_censorship/molly_pietsch.html

The Myth of the Liberal Media
The Propaganda Model of News
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6435.htm


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[Canuckistanian]

12. They should be using Cap'n Crunch decoder rings

and NOT the Count Chocula rings. Al Qaeda switched in 2001.