Possible Amnesty Offer For Snowden Revolves Around 31,000 Critical Documents
Although "60 Minutes" is being slammed for its NSA-friendly segment, Sunday's report did provide insight into the dire situation for the agency that Edward Snowden created.The 30-year-old hacker took...
View Article'60 Minutes' Is Getting Shredded For Its 'Embarrassing' Report On The NSA
"60 Minutes" is getting slammed for a controversial, one-sided report on the National Security Agency and leaker Edward Snowden on Sunday night. The two-part segment was reported by investigative...
View ArticleNSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy Our Economy By Bricking Computers Across...
The National Security Agency described for the first time a cataclysmic cyber threat it claims to have stopped On Sunday's "60 Minutes."Called a BIOS attack, the exploit would have ruined, or...
View ArticleA Look At Our Inevitable Drone-Filled Future
"All operations conducted in civil airspace must meet minimum levels of safety. [...] Presently, the [we are] drafting a rule to address small [drones]." -the Federal Aviation AdministrationForget for...
View ArticleFrustrated With Government, Pakistani Man Turned To The Taliban For Help
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Frustrated with the government's inability to help him, a man in Pakistan has appealed to Taliban warlords to rescue his 11-year-old son kidnapped by criminals more than...
View ArticleMarine Surprises His Family At The Pittsburgh Steelers Game
Lance Corporal Cory Lemasters gave his family a huge surprise during the Steelers vs. Bengals game on Sunday night.Lemasters walked through the tunnel at Heinz field to surprise family members while...
View ArticleThe EPA’s Highest-Paid Employee Pretended To Be A CIA Agent For 12 Years
On Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency's highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change will be sentenced after pleading guilty in September to pretending to be a CIA spy...
View ArticleUS Knowingly Purchased Faulty $5 Million Incinerators, Forcing Troops To Work...
In the latest in a slew of attacks by government watchdogs on military reconstruction efforts and spending in Afghanistan, a newly released report has found that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
View ArticleJohn McCain Went To Ukraine And Stood On Stage With A Man Accused Of Being An...
If you want a good picture of how complicated the situation in Ukraine is, look no further than Senator John McCain's recent trip to Kyiv.You see, while the former presidential hopeful's weekend trip...
View Article$100M Veterans Charity Scam Involved 'Catch Me If You Can' Wanna-Be
A former member of the U.S. Army's military intelligence unit was given a 28 year prison sentence on Monday for operating a bogus military charity scamming donors up to $100 million, reports ABC...
View ArticleJudge Rules The Government's 'Arbitrary' Spying On Americans Probably...
A federal judge has ruled that the National Security Agency program that collects information, or "metadata," on telephone calls in the United States is likely unconstitutional under the Fourth...
View ArticleThe Closest Thing To Candid Photos Of North Korea You'll Ever See
After publishing hundreds of photos from six visits to North Korea, it was an offhand comment that got French photographer Eric Lafforgue banned.Lafforgue had seen Spanish tourists wearing Kim Jung Il...
View ArticleThis Egyptian Constitution Poster Is A Total Disaster
On Sunday, Egypt presented the draft for its next constitution under a huge "All Egyptians Constitution" banner showing five people — three of which appear to be stock images of foreigners.These people...
View ArticleRussia To Resume Oil Flow To Ukraine In Face Of Protests
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to restart oil supplies to Ukraine's Odessa refinery after a three-year drought, traders said, in a sign Moscow is ready to support its neighbor after it spurned a trade...
View ArticleJudge's Ruling On NSA Program Is Just The 'Opening Salvo'
Judge's ruling against NSA's bulk collection of phone records only 'opening salvo'WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge made headlines Monday by declaring that the National Security Agency's bulk...
View ArticleUS Navy Official To Plead Guilty Over Secrets Sold To A Malaysian Businessman...
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy official accused of leaking confidential information to a Singapore-based company at the center of a military contracting scandal is expected to plead guilty in a...
View ArticleSnowden Asks For Asylum In Brazil — Here's Why He's Not Going Anywhere...
Edward Snowden reportedly wrote an open letter to Brazil and said would be willing to help the country investigate NSA spying on its soil if granted political asylum."Until a country grants permanent...
View ArticleA Shocking 97.8% Of Chinese Say Officials Are Wasting Money
According to Beijing Youth Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Youth League committee in Beijing, 97.8% of respondents to a recent survey felt that Chinese officials were wasting public...
View ArticleA Remarkable Drones-Eye View Of The Huge Protest Camp In Kiev
Kyiv's Maidan Square, the epicenter of the anti-government protests in Ukraine, has evolved into an ad-hoc community in the past few weeks. Hundreds of thousands of people remain in the square, with...
View ArticleA UK Doctor Went To Syria To Save Lives, Got Detained By Assad's Troops, And...
Dr Abbas Khan was a 32-year-old orthopedic surgeon and father of two from London. Last year, he travelED to Aleppo, Syria to help civilians wounded in the brutal civil war that had engulfed the...
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