http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/…
By WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press Writer
Sat Feb 23, 3:37 PM ET
It always happened at 1 a.m. In a secluded corner of this heavily guarded airfield, two snipers would creep across a rooftop and take their positions. Moments later, just below, a black minibus would arrive and wait.

hat tip ~ Oom
http://www.nytimes.com/…
Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Princeton-based researchers broke the encryption system by freezing memory chips, permitting them to read the software.
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: February 22, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — A group led by a Princeton University computer security researcher has developed a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer [...]

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By Robert Bryce, Texas Observer
Posted on February 23, 2008, Printed on February 23, 2008
Since last March, when I wrote a story about the apparent suicide of Col. Ted Westhusing in Iraq, I had believed there was nothing else to write about his tragic death.
But in December, I talked to a source in the [...]

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By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet
Posted on February 23, 2008, Printed on February 23, 2008
News Flash: The Bush administration acknowledges there is a such thing as international law.
But, predictably, it is not being invoked to address the US prison camps at Guantanamo, the wide use of torture, the invasion and occupation of sovereign countries, [...]

http://www.atlargely.com/…
Posted By Cernig
Andy Grotto at The Arms Control Wonk has kindly provided a link to a PDF copy of the IAEA report. Andy’s take is worth a read, as are the comments to his post.

http://www.sfgate.com/…
Lewis Seiler,Dan Hamburg
Monday, February 4, 2008
“The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”
- Winston Churchill, Nov. [...]

http://www.bradblog.com/…
– by Brad Friedman
The U.S. Attorney Purge scandal still ranks, in my estimation, as the key to unlocking almost every other unprecedented domestic (and perhaps even foreign) criminal abuse of power by the White House. The matter strikes at the very heart of the dirty dealings by all of the President’s men and, if it [...]

http://thinkprogress.org/…
Satyam
Earlier today, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said to the country’s Parliament that he was “very sorry” for previous denials from British officials about U.S. “rendition flights” refueling on British bases. Today, the United States apologized for providing false information to Britain:
“We came up with fresh information that in short order we shared with [...]

http://www.motherjones.com/…
Is it just me, or is CIA director Michael Hayden the least secretive spy ever? First he admitted that the CIA waterboarded detainees. Of course, most of us already knew that, but he helpfully laid out the exact details of the dirty work to Congress. Next, he went ahead and confirmed that at least some [...]

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Secrecy News
Steven Aftergood
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence provided an overview of U.S. intelligence data mining development programs in a new report to Congress (pdf).