Intelligence

Court Rebukes CIA on Freedom of Information, Recognizes Journalists, Not CIA, Determine What Is News

Posted by okami from Gwu

The CIA has long maintained that it is the judge of what is newsworthy, even under FOIA.

The court disagrees.

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Gordon Brown aide a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese agents - Times Online

Posted by Frankenstein from Times Online

Aide to the UK PM gets picked up by hot girl at a nightclub in Shanghai; wakes up to discover his Blackberry is missing. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Internet Archive's NSL Challenge

Posted by theangryindian from ACLU

FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional NSL Served on Internet Archive On November 26, 2007, the FBI served a National Security Letter NSL on the Internet Archive, a digital library. The letter sought personal information about one of the Archive s users, including the individual s NAME, address, and any electronic communication transactional records pertaining to the user. The NSL also included a gag order, prohibiting the Archive and its counsel from revealing the existence of the letter.

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Media Matters - WSJ editorial falsely claimed

Posted by theangryindian from Media Matters

A Wall Street Journal editorial falsely asserted that "the Senate Intelligence Committee found" former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV "had lied in claiming his wife [former CIA agent Valerie Plame] had played no role in sending him to Niger."

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Evolution battle flares in states

Posted by okami from Stateline

Creationism v. evolution in schools has been for many years a battle in the nation’s culture war, and these days it’s no different.

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Trial by Fire: How Military Commissions Work and Why They Fail - Brookings Institution

Posted by okami

More than six years after the Bush administration first introduced military commissions, finally we will learn whether they offer a plausible means of trying terrorists or whether the system really is the total flop it has seemed to be so far.

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Reason Magazine - Open-Source Warfare

Posted by okami from Reason

“Let the world make its own choice between life and death. Why should we be saddled with the responsibility?”

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