Tag: panetta
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode106 – Goodbye Enterprise, Impeach Obama 2012, Goldman Sacked
Story #1: ‘Top Gun’ Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise Starting Final Voyage // Story #2: ‘Impeach Obama’ Bill – Use of Military Without Congress Approval ‘High Crime’ // Story #3: “Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs”
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US Scrambles to Contain Fury Over Attack in Afghanistan
from nytimes.com: American officials scrambled Monday to understand why a veteran Army staff sergeant, a married father of two only recently deployed here, left his base a day earlier to massacre at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan. The devastating, unexplained attack deepened the sense of siege…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: 9/11 Super-Pilots, Dear Netflix, Self-Checkout Stores
Story #1: Amateur Aviators Who Became Super-Pilots on 9/11 // Story #2: Dear Netflix – People Really Hate the Price Hike and Threaten to Cancel // Story #3: Major Grocer Albertsons Getting Rid of Self-Checkout Lanes
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May Day: Obama Announces Death Of Bush Business Partner
The mastermind of the worst terrorist attack on American soil is dead, U.S. President Barack Obama announced late Sunday night, almost 10 years after the attacks that killed almost 3,000 people.
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2/17 defcon: cyber-coup, backdoor & track more
cyber-attack hits canadian government computers* report: egypt shut down net with big switch, not phone calls* voice of america uses social media to aid foreign dissent* surveillance footage & code clues indicate stuxnet hit iran* cia head panetta warns of possible cyber-pearl harbor* lynn urges partnership against cyber threat* dod talks up plans to deploy…
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CIA Head Panetta Says ‘Cyber Attack Could Be Next Pearl Harbor’
Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that the next “Pearl Harbor” is likely to be an attack on the United States’ power, financial, military and other Internet systems.
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Afghan Insurgents Obtained US IED-Blocking Systems
from allgov: Warlocks, the jamming technology used by the U.S. military to thwart roadside bombs in Afghanistan, fell into the hands of the Taliban more than two years ago, according to an Army intelligence document obtained by WikiLeaks. The equipment may have been subsequently shipped to Iran where researchers tried to figure out how Warlocks…
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obama reluctant as holder considers probe into torture
cia played a leading role in warrantless surveillancefrom dpa: US Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to probe allegations of the use of brutal torture by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), according to a media report published Sunday. Holder is to decide whether he will appoint a prosecutor to look into the nature of…