Tag: fbi
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#NewWorldNextWeek: 9/11/11 Updates & Previews
This week’s episode is devoted to the 10th anniversary of the ‘catastrophic and catalyzing’ events of 9/11: Story #1: FBI, DHS Warn of Small Plane Terror Threats Ahead of 9/11 Anniversary // Story #2: First Responders Decry Exclusion from 9/11 Ceremony // Story #3: 9/11/11 Anniversary Events
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fbi invites controversial westboro baptist to counterterror program
from npr: The Westboro Baptist Church is infamous for picketing soldiers’ funerals with signs like “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” and “God Hates the USA.” Yet the FBI recently invited leaders of the fundamentalist church to the Quantico Marine base in Virginia to talk to FBI agents as part of the bureau’s counterterrorism training program.…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Phone Hacking, FBI OKC CCTV, Hemingway’s Hell
Murdoch Tabloid Under Fire After Hacking Into Murder Victims Phones // OKC Bombing Videotapes ‘Might Have Been Misfiled, Impossible to Know Where’ // Ernest Hemingway ‘Driven to Suicide Over FBI Surveillance’
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6/23 defcon: strategies, taxes & trident tribunal
executive orders give pentagon new cyberwar guidelines* officials ‘expected to announce the entire strategy soon’* ex-dhs chief warns of cyberwar with hackers* cyber attacks grow more severe, frequent, say it practitioners* bitcoin prices plummet on hacked exchange* malware bitcoin theft a false flag on revolutionary currency?* states look to internet taxes to close budget gaps*…
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fbi agents get ‘leeway’ to push privacy bounds
fbi power to snoop expanded (again) from nytimes: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. The F.B.I. soon plans to issue…
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One In Four US hackers ‘Is An FBI Informer’
The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established.
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fbi lab reports on anthrax attacks suggest another miscue
from mcclatchy: Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data suggesting that a chemical may have been added to try to heighten the powder’s potency, a move that some experts say exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer… The apparent failure of the FBI to…
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fbi, cia ordered to release docs in mysterious death of kenney trentadue
from allgov: Sixteen years after the death of convicted felon Kenney Trentadue, the FBI and CIA have been ordered to turn over documents about the man whose family believes he was wrongfully murdered by the federal government after the Oklahoma City bombing. Trentadue’s brother, attorney Jesse Trentadue, has sought information from the federal agencies for…
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domestic surveillance court approved all 1,506 warrants in 2010
from threat level: The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected “agents” of a foreign power or terrorists on U.S. soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released under the Freedom of Information Act. The two-page report, which shows about a 13 percent increase in the…
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5/5 defcon: re-entry & removal
video: Spacecraft re-entry over Wash. & Oregon on may3?* Department of Justice: FBI Too Focused On Child Porn* Feds Demand Firefox Remove Add-On That Redirects Seized Domains* Mozilla Refuses to Block Extension for dhs – As Government’s ICE Effort Continues to Look Silly* flashback: ‘mafiaa fire’: firefox add-on to reverse US govt domain censorship Gabrielle…
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FBI Tracking “Suspects” Online
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made in 2007 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), reveals FBI using secret spyware.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Radioactive America, Fashion Police, FBI’s UFO’s
Story #1: US Unprepared for Nuclear Emergency // Story #2: France Starts Ban on Full-Face Veil // Story #3: Alien Psyops and Memos From the FBI ‘Vault’
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4/14 Defcon: Opt-Out Botnet & Fakebook Revolutions
Law would let you ‘opt-out’ of online web tracking // In a surprise appeal: TJX hacker claims US authorized his crimes as ‘key undercover secret service informant’ // ‘Facebook revolutions’ & people-powered coups: US trains activists to evade security forces
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1950 Roswell Memo From the FBI Vault: Alien Psyop
In 1995, ten million Americans watched “The Alien Autopsy”, but producer Ray Santilli admits there were only two or three “authentic” frames of “the aliens”.
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First Shots Mark 150 Years Since Start of US Civil War
In the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday, about two dozen Union Army re-enactors raised a 33-star American flag over Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor.