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NSA Secretly Expanded Internet Spying to Find Hackers
The disclosures, based on documents provided by Edward J. Snowden, come at a time of unprecedented cyber-attacks on US financial institutions.
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Documents point to US effort to get web data
The federal government has been secretly gathering information from Internet companies - including Google, Facebook and, most recently, Apple - going back nearly six years
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US secretly collecting logs of business calls
The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans.
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Barack Obama plans shift on drone strikes and Guantanamo Bay
President Barack Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism on Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them away from the CIA to the military.
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FBI pushes for easier monitoring on Internet
FBI's proposal focuses on fining companies that do not comply with a wiretap order.
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US working towards easier wiretaps on internet
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is "going dark" as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially,...
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Pak military plotted to tilt US policy on Kashmir, says FBI
Pakistan's military, including its powerful spy agency, has spent $4 million over two decades in a covert attempt to tilt American policy against India's control of much of Kashmir - including funnelling campaign donations to members of Congress and presidential candidates, the F.B.I. claimed in court papers unsealed on Tuesday.
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Osama killing: Did brutal interrogation lead to clues?
Did brutal interrogations produce the crucial intelligence that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden? As intelligence officials disclosed the trail of evidence that led to the compound in Pakistan where Bin Laden was hiding, a chorus of Bush administration officials claimed vindication for their policy of "enhanced interrogation techniques" like w...
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Classified Guantanamo files offer new insights into detainees
A trove of more than 700 classified military documents provides new and detailed accounts of the men who have done time at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, and offers new insight into the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there. Military intelligence officials, in assessments of detainees written between February 2002 and January 2009...
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9/11 plotter to be tried by military panel
In a major reversal, the Obama administration has decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for his role in the attacks of Sept. 11 before a military commission at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and not in a civilian courtroom. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is expected to announce on Monday afternoon that Mr. Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of th...
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'It's time for jihad' wrote arrested student
A 20-year-old Saudi college student who was arrested Wednesday night on bomb charges in Texas wrote in his journal that he sought a student visa three years ago so he could carry out terrorist attacks inside the United States, according to an F.B.I. document released Thursday.By the time that the student, Khalid Aldawsari, who attended community co...
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Former CIA agent tells a horror story
In many ways, the personal injury lawsuit looked routine: In late 2001, a government employee and his family sued the agency he worked for, saying it had placed them in a mold-contaminated home that made them sick and required nearly all their possessions to be destroyed. But this was no ordinary case. The employee, Kevin M. Shipp, was a veteran Ce...
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US working towards easier wiretaps on internet
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is "going dark" as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable com...
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US: Will people, governments trust us now?
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday denounced the disclosure this week of 75,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war by the Web site WikiLeaks, asserting that the security breach had endangered lives and damaged the ability of others to trust the United States government to protect their secrets.Speaking to reporters at the Pen...
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NSA Secretly Expanded Internet Spying to Find Hackers
The disclosures, based on documents provided by Edward J. Snowden, come at a time of unprecedented cyber-attacks on US financial institutions.
-
Documents point to US effort to get web data
The federal government has been secretly gathering information from Internet companies - including Google, Facebook and, most recently, Apple - going back nearly six years
-
US secretly collecting logs of business calls
The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans.
-
Barack Obama plans shift on drone strikes and Guantanamo Bay
President Barack Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism on Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them away from the CIA to the military.
-
FBI pushes for easier monitoring on Internet
FBI's proposal focuses on fining companies that do not comply with a wiretap order.
-
US working towards easier wiretaps on internet
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is "going dark" as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially,...
-
Pak military plotted to tilt US policy on Kashmir, says FBI
Pakistan's military, including its powerful spy agency, has spent $4 million over two decades in a covert attempt to tilt American policy against India's control of much of Kashmir - including funnelling campaign donations to members of Congress and presidential candidates, the F.B.I. claimed in court papers unsealed on Tuesday.
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Osama killing: Did brutal interrogation lead to clues?
Did brutal interrogations produce the crucial intelligence that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden? As intelligence officials disclosed the trail of evidence that led to the compound in Pakistan where Bin Laden was hiding, a chorus of Bush administration officials claimed vindication for their policy of "enhanced interrogation techniques" like w...
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Classified Guantanamo files offer new insights into detainees
A trove of more than 700 classified military documents provides new and detailed accounts of the men who have done time at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, and offers new insight into the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there. Military intelligence officials, in assessments of detainees written between February 2002 and January 2009...
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9/11 plotter to be tried by military panel
In a major reversal, the Obama administration has decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for his role in the attacks of Sept. 11 before a military commission at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and not in a civilian courtroom. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is expected to announce on Monday afternoon that Mr. Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of th...
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'It's time for jihad' wrote arrested student
A 20-year-old Saudi college student who was arrested Wednesday night on bomb charges in Texas wrote in his journal that he sought a student visa three years ago so he could carry out terrorist attacks inside the United States, according to an F.B.I. document released Thursday.By the time that the student, Khalid Aldawsari, who attended community co...
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Former CIA agent tells a horror story
In many ways, the personal injury lawsuit looked routine: In late 2001, a government employee and his family sued the agency he worked for, saying it had placed them in a mold-contaminated home that made them sick and required nearly all their possessions to be destroyed. But this was no ordinary case. The employee, Kevin M. Shipp, was a veteran Ce...
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US working towards easier wiretaps on internet
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is "going dark" as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable com...
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US: Will people, governments trust us now?
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday denounced the disclosure this week of 75,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war by the Web site WikiLeaks, asserting that the security breach had endangered lives and damaged the ability of others to trust the United States government to protect their secrets.Speaking to reporters at the Pen...
