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For the first time, Pentagon planners in 2010 will include climate change among the security threats identified in its list of priorities. But the new attention to climate concerns does not mean the Pentagon and CIA have taken sides in the debate over the validity of data on global warming.
The Central Intelligence Agency terminated a contract with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that let the company load bombs on C.I.A. drones, officials said.
The US Central Intelligence Agency has cancelled a contract with a security company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide that allowed the company to load bombs on CIA drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan, The New York Times reported late Friday.
Privacy law was largely created in the pre-Internet age, and new rules are needed to keep up with the ways people communicate today.
Washington (AFP) Dec 11, 2009 - A senior Al-Qaeda figure was killed in a drone strike in northwest Pakistan, a US official told AFP Friday, as President Barack Obama urged Islamabad to step up the fight against militants.
The contract gave employees with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide an operational role in one of the Central Intelligence Agency’s most significant covert programs.
Ever since he took office in mid-September, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan has repeatedly asserted that he will pursue "equality" in Tokyo's diplomatic and security relations with the United States.
A missile fired this week by a Central Intelligence Agency drone over Pakistan killed a top Qaeda operations planner, according to U.S. officials.
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 23, the 357th day of 2009. There are 8 days left in the year. On Dec. 23, 1968, 82 crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured.
A missile fired this week by a Central Intelligence Agency drone over Pakistan’s tribal regions killed a top Qaeda operations planner, according to U.S. officials.
WASHINGTON — A missile fired this week by a Central Intelligence Agency drone over Pakistan's tribal regions killed a top al-Qaida operations planner, according to American counterterrorism officials.
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