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Contrasting Views on North Korea Underscore Sensitivities and Lack of Evidence

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt - Apr. 13 (News Analysis) - A sudden round of finger-pointing highlighted the sensitivity surrounding intelligence estimates in the wake of failures leading up to the Iraq war, and some subsequent missteps involving North Korea.

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North Korea May Have Nuclear Missile Capability, U.S. Agency Says

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thom Shanker, David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt - Apr. 12 (News Analysis) - A report by the Pentagon’s intelligence arm concluded North Korea has learned to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be carried by missile. Whether other agencies agree is unclear.

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NSA Gets Another 5 Years to Spy On You Without Warrants - FISA Renewed Along With All of Its Major Problems

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

dslreports.com - Dec. 28 (Opinion) - Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) offered an amendment to the surveillance bill that would have forced the government to declassify the rulings or at least summaries of them....Merkley's amendment failed, with 37 in favor and 54 against. Another amendment from

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Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Oct. 10 (News Report) - The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency with backdoors to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ electronic communications in violation of federal law.

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US data whistleblower: 'It's a violation of everybody's constitutional rights'

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Paul Harris - Sep. 15 (Special Report) - Former National Security Agency official Bill Binney says US is illegally collecting huge amounts of data on his fellow citizens Bill Binney believes he helped create a monster. Sitting in the innocuous surroundings of an Olive Garden in the Baltimore suburbs, the former senior National Security Agency (NSA) official even believes he owes the whole American people an apology. Binney, a tall, professorial man in his late 60s, led the development of a secret software code he now believes is illegally collecting huge amounts of information on his fellow citizens. For the staunch Republican, who worked for 32 years at the NSA, it is a civil liberties nightmare come true. So Binney has started speaking out as an NSA whistleblower – an act that has earned him an armed FBI raid on his home. "What's happening is a violation of the constitutional rights of everybody in the country. That's pretty straightforward. I could not be associated with it," he told the Guardian. Binney, a career NSA ...

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The press sours a bit on Apple

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Ryan Chittum - Sep. 14 (Comment) - One of my favorite sports as a critic is watching how the press liveblogs the periodic gadget announcements that Apple pioneered as a 21st century model for getting and controlling press coverage. These events involve getting dozens or hundreds of journalists into a room, rolling out what's left of the Reality Distortion Field, and having them type up live mash-notes...

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Behind the US/Israeli Cyberattacks on Iran

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - Megha Rajagopalan writes at ProPublica The New York Times [has] published a report detailing how the Bush and Obama administrations created the cyberweapon known as Stuxnet and used it to disrupt Iran’s uranium enrichment program. Much has been written about Stuxnet, which, as ProPublica recently reported, remains a threat beyond Iran.

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Death of Osama bin Laden: Phone call pointed U.S. to compound --€” and to '€˜the pacer'

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Bob Woodward - May. 06 (News Report) - It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend. Where have you been? inquired the friend. We’ve missed you. What’s going on in your life? And what are you doing now?

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Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret support for Libya rebels (Reuters)

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Mark Hosenball - Mar. 30 (Breaking News) - Reuters - President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

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Despite openness pledge, President Obama pursues leakers

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Mar. 07 (News Report) - The Obama administration, which famously pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an unexpectedly aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, highlight national security threats or pursue a personal agenda.

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Janet Napolitano: US terror threat highest since 9/11

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By BBC Staff - Feb. 09 (News Report) - The threat of terrorism in the US is in some ways "at its most heightened state" since the 9/11 attacks, the US homeland security secretary says.

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Eight Years Later

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:07:35 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - While President Obama did not create the intelligence system, he has now gotten a bitter lesson in its weaknesses despite the mea culpas and pledges of reform.

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NSA Spied on Journalists? Whistleblower Reveals Surveillance Target

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - By Olbermann, Russell Tice - Jan. 22 (News Report) - In an exclusive interview tonight on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," former NSA analyst Russell Tice says that the agency under the Bush administration secretly collected communications data on civilians, including journalists.

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Specter Caves to White House Demands on NSA Bill

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:43:40 -0700

NewStandard - By Catherine Komp - Jul. 19 (News Report) - Constitutional law experts and civil rights advocates are slamming the latest legislative proposal from US Senator Arlen Specter to address the government’s warrantless wiretapping program. After months of negotiations with other lawmakers and Bush administration officials, Specter announced a "compromise" agreement last Thursday. But critics... say the proposal is a "sham" that eliminates congressional oversight over the executive branch and any meaningful legal review of the program.

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