Warfare

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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Afghan Officials Aided an Attack on U.S. Soldiers - NYTimes.com

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An Afghan police chief and another official colluded with Taliban in a recent attack on american troops, according to a military investigation.

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Op-Ed Columnist - Rejoin the World - NYTimes.com

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As president, George W. Bush's cowboy diplomacy wrenched the United States out of the international community. We must rejoin the world.

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Violations of Law May Be Classified, Court Rules | Secrecy News

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Information that would reveal a violation of the law may be properly classified as long as it is not deliberately classified for the purpose of concealing the violation, a federal judge indicated this week.

That view, in a ruling (pdf) against the ACLU by DC District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, all but nullifies one of the principal limitations on national security secrecy contained in the executive order on classification policy.

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Newswise Medical Substantial Proportion of Female Veterans Report Military Sexual Trauma

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According to preliminary research results from the Department of Veterans Affairs, approximately 15 percent of recently returned female veterans utilizing the VA health care system report experiencing sexual trauma during military service.

The cross-sectional study, presented at the American Public Health Association's 136th Annual Meeting & Exposition in San Diego, examined health care screening data of over 100,000 veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) who utilized medical care at any Veterans Health Administration facility during a six-year period.

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Eight die in US attack inside Syria: official media

Posted by okami from Spacewar

American helicopter-borne troops launched an assault on Sunday on a building in a Syrian border village with Iraq, killing eight civilians, official Syrian media reported.

The government has summoned the official US and Iraqi representatives to protest, state television and the official SANA news agency said.

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Terrorist 'tweets'? US Army warns of Twitter dangers

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A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Global Positioning System maps and voice-changing software as potential terrorist tools.

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