DEA Agents Are Told To Cover Up Spying Program Used Against Americans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to...
View ArticleASSAD: Syria Crisis Can Only Be Solved 'With Iron Fist'
Syria's crisis will only be solved by stamping out "terror", President Bashar al-Assad said, in reference to rebels fighting his regime.In a rare speech on Syrian state television, Assad also dismissed...
View ArticleTor 'Deep Web' Servers Go Offline As Irish Man Is Held Over Child Abuse Images
Freedom Hosting, described by an FBI special agent as "the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet", has gone offline, as the FBI sought the extradition of a 28-year-old suspect from...
View ArticleUS Military Helicopter Crashes Inside Camp Hansen, Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. military helicopter crashed on Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Monday, U.S. Forces in Japan said, an incident which may stoke anger over the concentration of U.S....
View ArticleMexican Cartels Are Recruiting US Soldiers As Hitmen, And The Pay Is Good
Mexican cartels are looking to recruit U.S. soldiers to carry out contract killings.In April a leaked FBI confidential bulletin revealed that the Los Zetas cartel, which was founded by former elite...
View ArticleMi-17 Helicopter Flying Between Buildings Causes Panic In Warsaw
On Jul. 27. 2013, an unusual sight in the skies over Warsaw caused some city residents to make panicked calls to the police: a huge Russian Mi-17 (Mi-171) helicopter was flying at very low altitude in...
View ArticleComments From Obama, Marine Commandant Unwittingly Aid The Defense Of Sexual...
It seems that all the tough rhetoric on sexual assault in the military from President Barack Obama and Commandant of the Marine Corps James Amos may be doing more harm than good.There's little doubt...
View ArticleLaw Student/Security Researcher Devises 'Terrifyingly Easy' Way To Spy On People
A security researcher who's also in law school recently wondered how easily a private citizen could spy on other people. He really only needed $570 and the Internet.Brendan O'Connor, 27, created a...
View ArticleThe Fort Hood Shooter Will Be Able To Cross-Examine The Soldiers He Shot
Tuesday will mark the beginning of the military trial of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major who gunned down 13 people and injured several dozen more during his 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood.Hasan,...
View ArticleCyber Attack On Tor Could Contain A Secret Message From The NSA
There was a big cyber attack on anonymous online network Tor over the weekend that led to the bust of an alleged child pornography "facilitator" by the FBI.While many assumed that the attack came from...
View ArticleIf You Thought NSA Spying Was Bad, You Should See What The DEA Is Doing
John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke of Reuters report that a secretive Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) unit is handing out"intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of...
View ArticleIs Flying Nude The Only Response To New Al Qaeda 'Clothing Bomb'?
A new form of bomb-making allows for clothing to be dipped into a liquid which turns the clothing itself into a bomb "once dry,"reports Rhonda Schwartz and James Gordon Meek of ABC.The tactic, along...
View ArticleFather Of Boston Bomber's Friend Will Sue The FBI To Find Out Why His Son Was...
The father of Ibragim Todashev, the 27-year-old friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was killed during an FBI interrogation in Florida, will sue the agency for wrongful death. That's according to a TIME...
View ArticleUS Evacuates Embassy In Yemen On Fears Of Major Al-Qaida Attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Tuesday ordered the U.S. Embassy in Yemen evacuated as a result of the threat by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic...
View ArticleThe Frightening Reality About How Easily Hackers Could Shut Down The US
Hacking into and shutting down industrial systems on which the U.S. relies is staggeringly easy, according to recent presentations from the Black Hat hacker conference.Picture this: A few pump station...
View ArticlePotential Sex Offender Accidentally Outs Himself Via Reddit By Posting...
A potential sex offender whose crimes fell through the cracks has drudged them up out of the past and accidentally outed himself via Reddit.It started about a month ago, on a subreddit called...
View ArticleWhy Do Mid-air Collisions Between Fighter Jets Occur?
“Two F-16C Falcon single seat aircraft, assigned to the 113th Wing, D.C. Air National Guard, were involved in a mid-air collision Aug. 1. The aircraft were on a routine night training mission off the...
View ArticleUS Consulate In Milan Evacuated After Bomb Threat
The U.S. consulate in Milan, Italy, was evacuated after a bomb threat, AFP reports.According to Italian news agency ANSA, the consulate was warned of a bomb in a letter, and Corriere della Sera reports...
View ArticleJapan's Giant New Destroyer Sends A Clear Message To China, The World
Sixty-eight years to the day of the Hiroshima bombing, Japan unveiled its new naval "destroyer" that happens to have a flat-top — dubbed "Izumo"— capable of carrying various rotary-wing aviation units,...
View ArticleBizarre Airport Dating Site Offers Snowden Six Figure Salary Just To Tweet
It looks like Edward Snowden may have gotten just the job he's cut out for following a month stuck in a Moscow airport.Chris Matyszczyk over at CNET reports that bizarre dating site...
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