11 Things You Should Know About Domestic Spying
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wait, there's more?Yes, this was the week that America's intelligence secrets spilled out: Classified court orders. Top secret Power Point slides. Something called PRISM.It's pretty...
View ArticleUS OFFICIAL: Our Spying Helped Disrupt A Plot To Bomb NYC Subways
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's broad programs to collect U.S. phone records and Internet traffic helped disrupt a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subways, a senior U.S. intelligence official...
View ArticleMarine Gen. John Kelly Gave An Amazing D-Day Anniversary Speech
A few days ago, I posted a speech Marine General John Kelly gave to eulogize two brave Marines who greeted certain death with a handful of hot lead and a pair of wide open eyes.Well, just yesterday,...
View ArticleThis Amazing New York Times Article Is The Only Thing You Need To Read About...
Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times has published an amazing article about Istanbul's Taksim square — where protests against plans to demolish Gezi Park have entered their ninth day— and the power...
View Article18 Suspected Drug Smugglers Rescued After Being Stranded In Arizona Desert...
A large group of suspected drug smugglers were rescued from the Arizona desert Friday, after a Spanish-speaking male called 911 asking for help, My Fox Phoenix reports.At 1:30 p.m., the caller told a...
View Article4-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Shoots And Kills Army Special Forces Father
An Army Special Forces veteran who served in the Iraq War was accidentally shot and killed by his 4-year-old son in northern Arizona, police said.Justin Stanfield Thomas took his son to visit a friend...
View ArticleINTELLIGENCE CHIEF: Here's What PRISM Is
Amidst continued outrage over an expansive NSA surveillance program called PRISM— first reported by The Guardian and The Washington Post — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has responded...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald Breaks ANOTHER NSA Story
The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald is on a roll this week with revelations of top-secret surveillance programs conducted by the National Security Agency.On June 5, Greenwald broke the story that the NSA...
View ArticleObama Administration To Open Criminal Investigation Into NSA Spying Leaks
The Obama administration has taken the first step into a criminal investigation of the leaking of top-secret documents to major newspapers, Fox News reports.After revelations came this week detailing...
View ArticleAfter Years Of Silence, North And South Korea Open Diplomatic Talks
North and South Korean officials headed for their first talks in years on Sunday, confronting decades of mutual distrust in a search for some positive end to months of soaring military tensions.The...
View ArticleTerrorist Trying To Kill Afghan Official Hid Bomb In A Place That Could Be A...
A suicide bomber attempting to kill Afghanistan's spy chief, Asadullah Khalid, apparently hid a bomb in his rectum, The New York Times reports. The unidentified man told officials he had important...
View ArticleThe Time Insiders Said The NSA Has Been Collecting Data On Almost All US...
The NSA has been collecting detailed call records from America's three largest telecommunications providers since shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, officials with direct knowledge of the...
View ArticleIT'S OFFICIAL: The Initial Government Spying Report About Google Was Wrong
The initial reports about the National Security Agency's Internet data-collection program, PRISM, said that the government was "tapping directly into the central servers" of Google, Facebook, and other...
View ArticleEdward Snowden Breaks Silence, Says He's Still In Hong Kong
NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden has given his first interview since he revealed himself in an interview with the Guardian on Sunday.Talking to Hong Kong newspaper the South China Morning Post, Snowden...
View ArticleIf You're Still Freaking Out About The Government Grabbing Your Phone...
Last week, it was revealed that the nation's biggest telecom companies are sending the government records of every phone call made on their systems every day.These revelations have caused not just...
View ArticleIs This China’s New Long Range Strike Stealth Aircraft?
The following image, found by Chinese military aviation expert Andreas Rupprecht, shows the shape of what could be a future Chinese stealth bomber plane.True or false? A model plane or just the base of...
View ArticleHong Kong Leader Repeatedly Says 'No Comment' When Asked About Edward...
Bloomberg TV interviewed Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung today, and asked him the big question on everyone's lips— what will Hong Kong do with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden?Leung, effectively the...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Powerful Militaries In The World
As a Marine Corps veteran, I would like to point out that there’s more to military prowess than firepower. There’s no statistic for leadership, no metric for the stuff they pump into you at Parris...
View ArticleThe Italian Mafia Used Remote Killer Aircraft A Decade Before The US Drone...
A mafia turncoat has revealed for the first time that Sicily's Cosa Nostra was a pioneer in the use of killer drones, testing bomb-loaded remote controlled aircraft in the early 1990s.Two decades...
View ArticleSnowden Showed Evidence Of US Hacking China To Hong Kong Newspaper
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has told a Hong Kong newspaper that the U.S. government has been hacking Hong Kong and Chinese networks for at least four years.The comments were made as part of the...
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