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Over the past year and a half, the U.S. has stepped up drone strikes against militants in Pakistan -- killing as many as a thousand people. Press accounts have largely credited the Central Intelligence Agency with running these missions. But the U.S. Air Force also plays an important role in the drone missions over Pakistan. The military supplies the aircraft. It monitors the flights in and out ...
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson Clinic), filed suit today against a half-dozen government agencies for refusing to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance.
The ‘Sex and the Nation State’ symposium, held Nov. 10, discussed issues concerning sex/gender and national security.
Editor’s Note: President Barack Obama's unwillingness to rock Washington's boat after he won Election 2008 -- his desire to "look forward, not backward" -- continues to haunt him.
This article is by Peter Baker, Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger.
Highly Decorated Jim Olson, Texas A&M’s CIA Officer-in-Residence, to Speak as Last Part of "The Science of Spying" Lecture Series at Museum of Nature & Science
by Bryan Bender WASHINGTON - President Obama will maintain a lid of secrecy on millions of pages of military and intelligence documents that were scheduled to be declassified by the end of the year, according to administration officials. read more
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. military is holding some detainees for weeks at a time and not allowing any visits from International Committee of the Red Cross representatives, the New York Times reported, citing unidentified human rights researchers and former detainees.
ALISSA J. RUBIN A U.S. camp is holding inmates for sometimes weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, researchers and former detainees say.
At Tuhama's Lebanese deli in Dearborn, and at bakeries and barbershops throughout town, it's no secret the CIA is looking for a few good spies.
An anonymous reader writes "At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid renowned magician John Mulholland $3,000 to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document were believed to be destroyed in 1973. Turns out one survived — and is now available on Amazon." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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