Johns Hopkins Forces Professor To Take Down Blog Post On NSA, Before Backing...
Citing concerns about linking to classified material, Johns Hopkins University asked a professor this morning to remove a blog post discussing last week’s revelations about the NSA’s efforts to break...
View ArticlePurported NSA Slides Refer To iPhone Owners As 'Zombies' And Steve Jobs As...
According to internal NSA documents seen by SPIEGEL, the NSA has the ability to access a lot of data on smartphones.The agency reportedly has special task forces focusing on smartphone operating...
View ArticleHere's The New Syria Alternative The Senate Is Working On In Response To The...
A bipartisan group of eight senators is furiously working on a new authorization of military force proposal that would be triggered in case of the failure of a Russian-led proposal to have Syria give...
View ArticleThe New Diplomatic Solution In Syria Is Already Running Into Big Trouble
Russia is "not necessarily enthusiastic" about a U.N. Security Council resolution that would put Syria's chemical weapons in international control and then destroy them, French Foreign Minister Laurent...
View ArticleFormer NSA Chief Had An Alarming Reaction To Learning About iPhone App Growth
Former National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden told a rather alarming story about the iPhone at a recent conference in Washington, according to Der Spiegel:He and his wife were in an Apple store...
View Article9 Of The Biggest Geopolitical Gaffes In Recent History
It's seems pretty clear that Secretary of State John Kerry blundered when he said an American strike could be averted if Bashar Al Assad gave up his chemical weapons.Needless to say, the screwup...
View ArticleHow Vladimir Putin Hijacked The White House's Response To Syria
In little over a day, Russia has successfully obstructed any White House plan to strike Syria and trumped it with one that is nearly impossible to carry out.Meanwhile the events of August 21 have faded...
View ArticleTake An Inside Look At The 60-Year Old Behemoth That Would Bomb Syria
The B-52 has seen several decades of active service and was about to see some more service over Syria, according to reports from ABC.Whether strikes on Syria go forward or not, the behemoth is already...
View ArticleKerry Already Knows That The Plan To Avoid War In Syria Is A Pipe Dream
Monday, John Kerry made an offhand comment about Syria avoiding American strikes if President Bashar Al Assad turned over "every bit of his chemical weapons in a week."His supposedly unauthorized...
View ArticleObama Is About To Deliver One Of The Most Anticipated Speeches Of His...
President Barack Obama is gearing up to deliver an address to the nation Tuesday night — and the circumstances surrounding it couldn't be more different than when it was originally scheduled.If you can...
View ArticleThe 20 Award-Winning Photos From The War In Syria Everyone Should See
The prospect of American intervention in Syria brings perhaps the first breaking point in a war that has stretched into its 30th month. More than 100,o00 people are dead, and more than two million...
View ArticleObama Lays Out Case For Syria Strike, But Says He Has Asked Congress To...
President Barack Obama said Tuesday night that he has asked Congress to postpone votes on authorizing military strikes in Syria while working on a potential diplomatic solution that has popped up in...
View ArticleObama Answers 5 Big Questions About Syria
During his statement on the situation in Syria Tuesday night, President Barack Obama answered questions he said he faced from Congress and from ordinary Americans who have written letters to the White...
View ArticleHere Is A Deceptively Brutal Instant Poll For Obama On His Speech Tonight
Despite the good headline accompanying a CNN instant poll of reaction to President Barack Obama's address on Syria Tuesday night, the underlying numbers in the poll paint the picture that Obama has...
View ArticleThe NSA Surveillance Machine Grew Too Big For Anyone To Understand
How the US surveillance machine grew too big for even anyone at NSA to understandWASHINGTON (AP) — The surveillance machine grew too big for anyone to understand.The National Security Agency set it in...
View ArticleUS Officials Insist Russian Plan For Syria Was Not Gaffe Diplomacy
The US administration Tuesday hit back against sneers it had accidentally stumbled on a way to avert military strikes on Syria, saying ideas for securing chemical weapons had been percolating for...
View ArticleThe Russian Plan Of Removing Syria's Chemical Weapons Mid-War Is A 'Nightmare'
As President Barack Obama entertains a Russian proposal for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons stockpiles, experts are expressing skepticism of the unprecedented task of securing and destroying a...
View ArticleThis New Ad Agency Wants To Hire Mostly Military Veterans [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:A new agency that debuted Tuesday will hire primarily military veterans. Ayni Brigade was founded by two former executives of Syracuse-based...
View ArticleOne Year Later, We Still Haven't Solved The Mystery At The Heart Of The...
One year after four Americans died in an attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, there is no one in custody who can tell U.S. counterterrorism officials specifics about when, where, and by whom...
View ArticleMiss Kansas Is An Army Sergeant Who Will Be The First Miss America Contestant...
This Sunday's Miss America pageant will be a little different from past years.For the first time in history, a contestant will expose her tattoos during the bikini portion of the competition.That bold...
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