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Puerto Rico
A White House task force on Puerto Rico’s ties with the United States heard from islanders across the political spectrum Wednesday at a hearing that tapped into deep emotions surrounding a decades-old debate.
U.S. Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, a task force co-chairman, said the meeting was meant to gather opinions on what role the [...]
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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….
…In [...]
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Hustler Reports-’Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us’
Brad Friedman
hat tip: BLN
SIBEL EDMONDS, a former FBI translator, claims that the following government officials have committed what amount to acts of treason.
They are lawmakers Dennis Hastert, Bob Livingston, Dan Burton, Roy Blunt, Stephen Solarz and Tom Lantos, as well as at least three members of George W. Bush’s inner circle: Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz [...]
Hassan Yousef, Son Of Hamas Founder, Was Top Israeli Agent
ARON HELLER/Haaretz Reports
JERUSALEM — The son of one of Hamas’ founders served as a top informant for Israel for more than a decade, providing top-secret intelligence that helped prevent dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
Boing Boing
19 Feb 2010
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The [...]
Chinese Hack Tracked Back to Two Universities and an IE Exploit [Google]
Gizmodo/Adam Frucci
19 Feb 2010
Investigators at the NSA have tracked the huge online attacks that Google used as their reason for leaving the Chinese market to two universities, one with ties to the Chinese military.
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‘Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us’ in March Issue of Hustler Magazine (Now on Newsstands)
BradBlog
You’re welcome. My 2000+ word article on former FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is now featured in the March 2010 edition of Hustler. Sorry, she’s wearing all her clothes. Go buy it anyway.
The article brings the story of Edmonds, who was twice-gagged by the Bush Administration’s outrageous use/abuse of the “States Secrets Privilege,” fully up [...]
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Israel
As Israel keeps threatening the regional countries with war, Egyptian maritime sources say the Israeli navy has deployed two missile ships to the Persian Gulf.
Citing the sources, Yediot Ahronot reported Saturday that two Israeli missile ships passed through the Suez Canal en rout to the Red Sea on Thursday morning.
The United Nations is likely to [...]
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Iran
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday proposed a prisoner swap of Iranians in U.S. prisons for three American hikers being held in Tehran.
Ahmadinejad said in interview with state TV that there were ongoing negotiations about possibly exchanging the hikers for several Iranians jailed for years in the United States.
Ahmadinejad did not mention any specifics but [...]
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Spy Takes US/Israeli Secrets to Grave