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‘Cuban Twitter’ and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency
Even Yemeni Government Spokesman Finds Foiled Plot Hard to Believe
Al Qaeda's Yemen Affiliate Keeps Threatening U.S. Embassies
Microsoft Leaks Reveal Depth of NSA's Ties with Silicon Valley
Is Edward Snowden Any Good at Spycraft?
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‘Cuban Twitter’ and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency
Foreign governments have long accused the U.S. Agency for International Development of being a front for the CIA or other groups dedicated to their collapse. In the case of Cuba, they appear to have been right. In an eye-opening display of incompetence...
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Thu, Apr 04 2014 3:16 PM
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Even Yemeni Government Spokesman Finds Foiled Plot Hard to Believe
Even the spokesman for the Yemeni embassy in Washington, D.C. is having a hard time believing a plot by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula that the Yemeni government says it foiled. Several news agencies -- including the BBC , the New York Times , and...
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Wed, Aug 08 2013 2:59 PM
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Al Qaeda's Yemen Affiliate Keeps Threatening U.S. Embassies
As new details have emerged about the terrorist threat that forced the closure of 19 U.S. diplomatic posts and the evacuation of American and British personnel from Yemen, officials have repeatedly raised alarms about how remarkably specific this particular...
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Tue, Aug 08 2013 10:00 AM
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Microsoft Leaks Reveal Depth of NSA's Ties with Silicon Valley
Judging by the latest revelations made by Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency has Microsoft firmly in its pocket. According to an explosive Guardian report on Thursday , the NSA was granted access to Microsoft's new free email service, Outlook...
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Thu, Jul 07 2013 5:00 PM
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Is Edward Snowden Any Good at Spycraft?
Sure, Edward Snowden's non-flight to Cuba , whereabouts in Russia , and request for asylum in Ecuador are getting most of the attention today. But amid all the hubbub, Monday's news also brought us this small but intriguing detail from a New York...
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Mon, Jun 06 2013 3:50 PM
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'Could have prevented 9/11' is the new Hitler
Samuel Johnson once said that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Patriotism, and bad analogies. For the uninitiated, Godwin's Law is one of the cardinal rules of the Internet. Coined in 1990 by Internet law expert Mike Godwin...
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Thu, Jun 06 2013 6:00 PM
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U.S. admits droning four Americans (but just one deliberately)
Ahead of President Obama's big counterterrorism speech tomorrow, Attorney General Eric Holder has written a letter , obtained by the New York Times , to the Senate Judiciary Committee disclosing the four American citizens killed by targeted strikes...
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Wed, May 05 2013 3:00 PM
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Things Donald Rumsfeld actually said this week
Donald Rumsfeld has never had a reputation for being particularly tactful or articulate (let's all take a moment to remember how Saturday Night Live portrayed him , even before the invasion of Iraq), but he's demonstrated a habit of owning his...
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Fri, May 05 2013 3:00 PM
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Clinton testifies on Benghazi attack
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on that killed four American citizens, including the ambassador to Libya. Her remarks...
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Wed, Jan 01 2013 11:27 AM
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Pakistan's ISI: Militants, not India, are the greatest threat to national security - by Brian Fung
Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, has concluded that India is no longer the primary threat to the country's security. Displacing New Delhi for the title are Islamist militias operating in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province: A recent...
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Mon, Aug 08 2010 2:50 PM
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BlackBerrys in UAE deemed threat to national security
BlackBerry phones may be unwelcome guests at dinner parties, in class, or at the movies, but in the UAE, the smartphones have recently been labeled a "security threat." "As a result of how Blackberry data is managed and stored, in their...
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Wed, Jul 07 2010 4:54 PM
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The era of cyberespionage. Yawn.
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Google's January investigation into Chinese hacking of over twenty companies and the emails of dozens of human rights activists has highlighted an increasingly potent form of...
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Tue, Apr 04 2010 10:15 AM
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