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Total Information Awareness: ex-Homeland Security chief Chertoff instrumental in pushing ‘Einstein III’
Russia Today/SOTT
A surveillance program authorized by the Bush administration to allow the National Security Agency to spy on the internet activities of federal employees is now being expanded. The Obama administration is planning to expand the Einstein internet surveillance software.
Original Tenant of Building Allegedly Attacked by Joe Stack was Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
Cryptogon
Updating the Joe Stack post:
UPDATE: Original Tenant of Building Allegedly Attacked by Joe Stack was Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation just happened to be Bobby Ray Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency and former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Police Call Off Search For Nuclear Scientist Who Vanished Mysteriously
io9
Lachlan Cranswick, an Australian nuclear scientist who worked at a research facility in the small Ontario town of Deep River, vanished under extremely mysterious circumstances a month ago. Now authorities have given up on the strange, tragic search for him.
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Mary Landrieu phone tampering case gets drawn out a bit
Jonathan Tilove/NOLA.com
hat tip: Susie Madrak/Crooks and Liars
The U.S. attorney’s office in New Orleans has another month to decide what, if any, charges to bring against the four men arrested at the end of January in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office, including conservative activist James O’Keefe.
US military spied on Planned Parenthood, civilian phone calls
John Byrne/RawStory
United States military intelligence spied on Planned Parenthood and other domestic groups as part of US security preparations for the 2002 winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, according to a recently declassified military document obtained by a civil liberties group Thursday.
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Video Obtained By “60 Minutes” Shows Pentagon Employee Selling Secrets to Chinese Spy
Via: CBS
“60 Minutes” has obtained an FBI videotape showing a Defense Department employee selling secrets to a Chinese spy for cash. The video, which has never been made public before, offers a rare glimpse into the secretive world of espionage and illustrates how China’s spying may now pose the biggest espionage threat to the U.S….
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Official: FBI Probing Pa. School Webcam Spy Case
CBS
21 Feb 2010
PHILADELPHIA (CBS3/AP) — A Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly switching on laptop computer webcams inside students’ homes is under investigation by federal authorities, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press.
Lawsuit: School gave kids laptops to spy on them at home
Raw Story/Daniel Tencer
19 Feb 2010
Students in a Philadelphia-area school district have launched a lawsuit accusing their schools of spying on them at home through webcams installed in laptop computers the district gave them.
TSA worker tried to sabotage terror database, feds say