Monday, 26 May 2014 The White House press service unwittingly put the real name of the CIA’s top spy in Afghanistan on the ‘pool report’ distributed among journalists accompanying the American president on a surprise trip… Read More ›
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2014 Jefferson Muzzles
The U.S. Department of Justice The White House Press Office The National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security The North Carolina General Assembly Police The Kansas Board of Regents Modesto Junior College The Tennessee State Legislature Wharton High… Read More ›
NSA ‘records all phone conversations’ in unnamed target country ( MYSTIC )
US agency records every phone conversation in unnamed target nation, according to exiled whistle-blower Edward Snowden and others UPDATED : Thursday, 20 March, 2014, 4:23am The Washington Post NSA taps ‘all calls’ in one country. The US National Security Agency… Read More ›
Malaysian Airline passengers’ phones still ringing?
Tuesday, 11 March 2014 The ‘unprecedented mystery’ behind the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 deepened on Monday when relatives claimed they were able to call the cellphones of their missing loved ones. According to the Washington Post, family… Read More ›
Chinese tycoon Chen Guangbiao says he is in talks to buy New York Times
UPDATED : Wednesday, 01 January, 2014, 1:15pm Agence France Press in Beijing Chen Gunagbiao. Photo: Simon Song First he handed out cash to victims of China’s 2008 earthquake. Then he sold “canned fresh air” to residents of smog-ridden Beijing. Now… Read More ›
Snowden latest: NSA stalks the human race using Google, ad cookies
Every single day, every word you say, every game you play, they’ll be watching you Every single day, every word you say, every game you play, they’ll be watching you By Iain Thomson Posted in Security, 12th December 2013… Read More ›
NSA collects data revealing location of five billion mobile phones every day
The records allow US intelligence agents to establish not just the movements of individuals but to monitor who else they communicate with Lewis Smith Thursday, 5 December 2013 Almost five billion records revealing the location of mobile phones around the… Read More ›
Washington Post op-ed: Repeal presidential term limits
Posted By Tim Cavanaugh On 10:36 AM 11/29/2013 In | No Comments As President Obama faces a small revolt within his own party, a Washington Post op-ed is calling for the United States to end presidential term limits and allow… Read More ›
Is it OK to torture or murder a robot?
Richard Fisher is the deputy editor of BBC Future. We form such strong emotional bonds with machines that people can’t be cruel to them even though they know they are not alive. So should robots have rights? Kate Darling likes… Read More ›
‘Fairy godmother’ to military brides allegedly stole more than $5million from a nonprofit by directing funds to fake companies
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:46 EST, 25 November 2013 | UPDATED: 11:48 EST, 25 November 2013 A woman who donated wedding dresses to military brides has stolen $5.1million from a medical non-profit company. Ephonia Green worked at the… Read More ›
‘I’m really good at killing people’: New book claims President Obama bragged to aides about using drone strikes
Claim comes from new book ‘Double Down: Game Change 2012’ about Obama’s re-election campaign Obama Administration has not commented on the report Remark was made while discussing drone strikes with aides President won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 By … Read More ›
Belgium considers granting euthanasia for children
Belgium government, which has already legalized euthanasia for adults is now envisaging extension of this procedure to children. Should the bill be approved, Belgium will be the first country to adopt such measure. The same project also includes granting… Read More ›
NSA ‘broke into Yahoo and Google data centers to obtain millions of records every day’… and leaked doodle shows how spy agency did it with a smiley face
The Washington Post cites documents leaked by Edward Snowden In 30 days, the NSA gleaned 180 million new records including text, audio and video – and who sent it to whom and when they sent it NSA: Claims that we… Read More ›
NSA Denies Website Outage Is The Result Of A Cyberattack ( Still down as of 7:30pm PST)
Brian Jones and Paul Szoldra Oct. 25, 2013, 6:10 PM Arturo Rodriguez / Associated Press Despite speculation that mystery hacker-group “Anonymous” is behind it, the NSA has denied their official website being down is the result of… Read More ›
Maryland Attorney General claimes he ‘was sending a text and NOT taking a picture’ of dancing teens at his underage son’s booze-filled party
Doug Gansler, 50, is the Attorney General for Maryland and he is currently running to be the next Democratic governor of the state His son Sam and his classmates were having a ‘beach week’ graduation party at a rented home… Read More ›
Russian representative denies US media claims of his involvement in espionage – Rossotrudnichestvo exchange program
Photo EPA/CJ GUNTHER WASHINGTON, October 24 (Itar-Tass) – Representative of Russia’s Federal Agency for Cooperation with Fellow-Countrymen Abroad /Rossotrudnichestvo/ in Washington, Yury Zaytsev, has expressed astonishment over publications in the U.S. media saying that the FBI suspects him of working… Read More ›
Navy hit with bribery scandal as high profile commander charged with accepting Lady Gaga tickets and prostitutes in exchange for classified information
Also charged were Leonard Glenn Francis, the CEO of defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd And John Bertrand Beliveau II, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service – NCIS By James Nye PUBLISHED: 00:20 EST, 22 October… Read More ›
Obama’s efforts to control leaks ‘most aggressive since Nixon’, report finds ( “This is the most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.” )
Administration’s tactics, which include using Espionage Act to pursue leakers, have had chilling effect on accountability – study Karen McVeigh in New York theguardian.com, Thursday 10 October 2013 10.00 EDT Under Obama, the Espionage Act has been used to… Read More ›
Drug companies paid big bucks to attend FDA painkiller meetings
Article by: Peter Whoriskey Washington Post October 6, 2013 – 11:15 PM WASHINGTON – A scientific panel that shaped the federal government’s policy for testing the safety and effectiveness of painkillers was funded by major pharmaceutical companies that paid… Read More ›
U.S. intelligence agencies spend millions to hunt for insider threats, document shows
By Carol D. Leonnig, Julie Tate and Barton Gellman, Published: September 1 The U.S. government suspects that individuals with connections to al-Qaeda and other hostile groups have repeatedly sought to obtain jobs in the intelligence community, and it reinvestigates thousands of… Read More ›
Top-secret U.S. intelligence files show new levels of distrust of Pakistan
By Greg Miller, Craig Whitlock and Barton Gellman, Monday, September 2, 6:04 PM The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaeda, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one… Read More ›
General was called ‘Poppa Panda Sexy’ pants by junior officer he was having an affair with, court hears as he faces jail for sex assault
Affair lasted for three years between the general and a Captain who was 17-years younger Relationship occurred across continents and war zones as the pair encountered one another Captain flew into a jealous rage and began emailing other officers Sinclair… Read More ›
Americans widely back NSA phone tracking: poll
11 Jun 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) A solid majority of Americans support the US government’s programs tracking telephone records to try to uncover terror, a Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll found Monday. Despite US intelligence concerns raised by contractor Edward Snowden’s leak… Read More ›
BREAKING NEWS: Defense contractor, 29, who leaked NSA documents reveals himself
Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant, says he passed the classified information to The Guardian The documents blew open a number of intense NSA surveillance operations and caused a firestorm over the government’s actions Snowden, a high school… Read More ›
Spy program shows just how well US knows its people
17:35 07 June 2013 by Hal Hodson For similar stories, visit the Crime and Forensics Topic Guide They’re watching you (Image: Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The US government is watching every digital move that Americans make. More than 115 million people… Read More ›
By the numbers: The NSA’s super-secret spy program, PRISM
Posted By Elias Groll Thursday, June 6, 2013 – 8:00 PM In a bombshell scoop, the Washington Post is reporting that the National Security Agency (NSA) has gained direct access to the servers of nine prominent Internet companies,… Read More ›
Forget phones, PRISM plan shows internet firms give NSA everything
Microsoft, Google, Apple and Yahoo! and others open their legs servers By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 7th June 2013 00:23 GMT It has been a rough 24 hours for the US National Security Agency. First a leaked… Read More ›
Top Democratic spokesman causes Twitter explosion with complaint about news organizations boycotting ‘off the record’ briefing with US attorney general
‘Some in the media refuse to meet with’ Eric Holder, wrote top DNC flack Brad Woodhouse. ‘Kind of forfeits your right [to] gripe.’ The DO staff ‘can just find how [reporters] feel via subpoenaed email and phone records,’ snarked one… Read More ›
Report: Chinese Hackers Breach Top Weapons Designs
May. 28, 2013 – 05:59PM | By DOUG STANGLIN USA Today and the Defense News staff | Cyber Attack Targets Australia Spy Headquarters: Hackers traced to a server in China have stolen the floor plans for the new Australia… Read More ›
US targeted Fox News reporter as ‘co- conspirator’ in government spying case
Washington Post reports FBI sought phone records and emails of James Rosen as part of spying case against goverment official Tom McCarthy guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 May 2013 13.15 EDT Rosen has not been charged in the case, but Steven Jin-Woo… Read More ›
IRS targeted 298 nonprofit US groups critical of government and involved in political activities
Statue of Liberty © Photo: Voice of Russia The US Internal Revenue Service singled out for scrutiny groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names as well as nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans… Read More ›
China slams Abe over comments in Washington Post
Feb. 22, 2013 – 04:10PM JST BEIJING — China on Friday slammed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for telling a U.S. newspaper that Beijing had a “deeply ingrained” need to challenge its neighbors over territory. Abe, visiting the United States… Read More ›
World heritage disaster: rebels torch Timbuktu’s priceless relics
Fleeing insurgents set fire to buildings containing 20,000 ancient documents as French troops approach LAST UPDATED AT 14:46 ON Mon 28 Jan 2013 ISLAMIST insurgents have dealt a “devastating blow” to the world’s heritage by torching buildings in Timbuktu containing… Read More ›
Italian Mafia corrupts green energy sector, sting operations show
3:34 AM 01/25/2013 The Italian Mafia has heavily infiltrated the country’s renewable energy sector, according to reports of sting operations there. Since the early 2000s, when governments started flooding global energy markets with cheap loans, organized crime elements have taken… Read More ›
The Army’s obesity problem: By the numbers
*Repost at request In 2007, 116 troops were dismissed for being out of shape. In the first 10 months of this year, that figure was a rather massive 1,625 By Samantha Rollins | December 11, 2012 Members of the U.S. Army at a… Read More ›
Report: Syrian Rebels Have New Anti-Aircraft Missiles
<!—-> Nov. 29, 2012 – 10:35AM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON — Syrian rebels have recently obtained up to 40 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, the Washington Post reported Nov. 29, citing Western and Middle Eastern intelligence officials. Some of the missiles… Read More ›
The Sins Of General David Petraeus
Engineering Evil: Need second confirmation on article data. Petraeus seduced America. We should never have trusted him. Michael Hastings BuzzFeed Staff posted a few minutes ago Posted Nov 11, 2012 5:43pm EST The fraud that General David Petraeus perpetrated… Read More ›
Yet more security concerns emerge about Paula Broadwell’s access to Petraeus:” disregarded normal CIA security procedures”
Yet more security concerns emerge about Paula Broadwell’s access to Petraeus By Max Fisher , Updated: November 10, 2012 CIA Director David Petraeus (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Newly reported information about CIA Director David Petraeus’s alleged affair with Paula… Read More ›
Critics question Petraeus’ timing : No longer has to testify at the Benghazi hearing
Critics question Petraeus’ timing By: Katie Glueck November 9, 2012 05:45 PM EST Gen. David Petraeus’s resignation from the CIA on Friday sparked skepticism among media pundits and journalists that the Obama administration had stalled the bombshell until after the… Read More ›
Hillary Clinton sticks to plan to resign from State Dept in January
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that she still intends to resign her position January, she said in a Friday interview with the Washington Post. “I’m aiming to leave shortly after the inauguration; that’s my plan. But I haven’t… Read More ›
Mali coup led by US-trained captain
Published: 24 March, 2012, 16:14 Edited: 24 March, 2012, 21:49 A US Africa Command official confirmed on Friday the leader of military coup d’état in Mali has visited the US on several occasions, receiving professional military education. Captain Amadou Haya… Read More ›
Life not improving for Europeans, says survey: 54 percent, are “struggling” and 10 percent are “suffering.”
Posted By Betsi Fores On 2:06 PM 10/15/2012 @ 2:06 PM In Daily Caller News Foundation,World The Nobel Peace Prize-winning European Union does not receive such rave reviews from its own residents, according to a new Gallup polls. “As the… Read More ›
Sensitive U.S. files unguarded in Libya embassy: report _Embassy Security was to be paid about $4.00/hr
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, October 3, 2012 20:07 EDT Topics: benghazi ♦ libya ♦ US ambassador Chris Stevens WASHINGTON — A trove of documents, including travel plans and security contracts, lay unguarded at what remains of the American consulate in… Read More ›
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