US Intelligence Agencies

Torture Memos Makes DOJ Sound Like Mob Attorney

talkingpointsmemo.com     19 hrs ago   122 related          

The more we see of the back-and-forth between the Department of Justice and the CIA regarding the torture program a few years ago, the more it becomes clear that everyone knew it was a little shady. The American Civil Liberties...                

How to Get Away With Torture

washingtonpost.com     22 hrs ago   7 related          

Here's the official policy on torture from the administration that decries moral relativism: It's in the eye of the torturer. One document is a previously undisclosed August 2002 memo to the CIA from the Justice Department...                

A Closer Look at the Hamdan Trial

alternet.org     17 hrs ago   1 related          

As the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan continues, justice and logic remain in short supply. Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith On June 12, when the Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the prisoners at...                

Google reveals scope of Web-crawling task

news.com.com     17 hrs ago   25 related          

Posted by Stephen Shankland It's a pity the National Security Agency can't talk about its computational challenges, because it's leaving a lot of the boasting rights to Google. In a blog posting on Friday the company shared...                

Pentagon's Cyborg Warriors

mathaba.net     14 hrs ago   1 related          

DARPA researchers were instrumental in designing - or appropriating for military use - the surveillance technologies deployed by the National Security Agency (NSA) under president Bush's so-called ''Terrorist Surveillance...                

Yoo-Bybee II

washingtonmonthly.com     19 hrs ago          

YOO-BYBEE II....Yesterday the ACLU finally got hold of the infamous August 2002 "Yoo-Bybee II" memo, which outlines acceptable interrogation techniques for CIA prisoners held outside the U.S. I figure you probably want to know...                

July 2008: China has 253 million Internet users, tops U.S.

itwire.com     20 hrs ago   98 related          

According to a Chinese report released on Friday, July 25, 2008, China has 253 million people online. The China Internet Network Information Center , the non-profit, state-sponsored network information center of China, reported...                

CIA gets a whiff of ISI in Afghan jihad, sulks

asianage.com     21 hrs ago          

Indranil Banerjie Murree, a picturesque hill station barely an hour’s drive from Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, is a favourite weekend destination. Last Sunday witnessed the country’s two most powerful men sojourning at the hill...                

Any Great Books?

freerepublic.com     16 hrs ago          

Fiction or nonfiction. The one book I think every American should read is the Pulitzer Prize winning book, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by...                

Air Force crew fell asleep holding launch code devices

chicagotribune.com     yesterday   130 related          

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering an investigation by military and National Security Agency experts, the Air...                

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