Tag: nsa
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gonzales mishandled 18 classified docs on his 1st day
from washington times: The Justice Department’s internal watchdog said Tuesday that former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales had only been on the job a few hours the first time he mishandled highly classified documents. All told, a report from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine concluded, Mr. Gonzales failed to properly secure 18 top-secret…
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may clearinghouse
policestate2008real life ministry of love is being built*26 yrs after gibson, pentagon defines ‘cyberspace’*comcast is hiring an internet snoop for the feds*US: possible gov’t laptop breach?*mega corp lawsuit against youtube threatens internet freedom*air force aims for ‘full control’ of ‘any and all’ computers*air force colonel wants to build a military botnet*dns trouble knocks nsa off…
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carlyle, cops, main core, youtube, turnpikes & redlights
carlyle group to acquire booz allen hamiltonfrom deseret news: Carlyle Group, the private-equity firm run by David Rubenstein, agreed to acquire Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.’s U.S. government-consulting business for $2.54 billion, its biggest buyout since the credit markets collapsed in July… The Booz Allen government-consulting unit has more than 18,000 employees and annual sales of…
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March Clearinghouse
russian general predicts april 6 attack on iran*middle school kids threatened with terrorist watch list*airport screening makeover promises soothing music, see-through x-rays*urine tester guilty of using drugs*paul campaign goes on*why ron paul scares the gop*obama: i don’t carry a cfr card or know any ‘special handshake’*hope, change, & pissing in the wind, ‘of obama, democrats,…
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military to ‘recruit or hire bloggers’ & intellipedia
military report: secretly ‘recruit or hire bloggers’from danger room: A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers.” Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs – and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction…
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do americans even care about big brother?
from time: Pity America’s poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board by the White House, and the compilation of…
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billboard liberation front touts at&t & nsa collaboration
from threat level: The Billboard Liberation Front has struck again – this time rewriting a billboard in San Francisco’s Mission District that was hosting AT&T’s latest ad campaign touting the breadth of its network coverage. The billboard now reads: “AT&T works in more places, like NSA Headquarters.” Formerly the sign bragged of service in Chilondoscow.…
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daniel ellsberg’s dire warning
from thought criminal: Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming attack on Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at a recent American University symposium… “Let me simplify … and not just to be rhetorical: A…
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whistleblower: nsa monitors all web traffic
from raw story: A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a “secret room” to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell’s 1984. Appearing on MSNBC’s Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that a copy of…
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october clearinghouse
gary hart warns iran that ‘we provoke provocations’* nist admits total collapse of twin towers unexplainable* thom hartmann’s hypocrisy for israel* anti-gay church ordered to pay $10.9 million for funeral protest* fox news accuses ron paul campaign of using botnets* dod to carry out ‘military missions’ during wmd/pandemic* actor mark ruffalo ‘baffled’ at collapse of…
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declassified: US spying could top $50b
from jason rhyne: The tab for US non-military spying in 2007 is a whopping $43.5 billion, according to figures released today (35kb PDF) by National Director of Intelligence Mike McConnell. Disclosure of that amount marks the first time in nine years that funds budgeted for national intelligence activities have been publicly aired, and comes amid…
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nsa punishes qwest for refusing to spy on americans
from thinkprogess: Documents released in an insider trading trial yesterday reveal that “the National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program.” In the documents, former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio is quoted as saying “the request was both inappropriate and illegal,…
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so who’s afraid of the israel lobby?
from ray mcgovern: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee brags that it is the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, and has demonstrated that time and again, and not only on Capitol Hill. Nowhere is the Lobby’s power more clearly demonstrated than in its ability to suppress the awful truth that on…
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nsa writes more potent malware than hackers
from false flag news: Also remember that Symantec, the makers of ‘Norton Anti-Virus,’ are top DoD contractors, as are Dell, Microsoft, Oracle, McAfee, etc… from channel register: A project aimed at developing defences against malware that attacks unpatched vulnerabilities involved tests on samples developed by the NSA. The ultra-secretive US spy agency supplied network testing…
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US spy satellites to be used on americans
from wall street journal: The U.S.’s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the nation’s vast network of spy satellites in the U.S. The decision, made three months ago by Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, places for the first time some…