Report: The NSA Repeatedly Violated Court Rules In Surveillance Searches From...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The National Security Agency repeatedly violated privacy rules between 2006 and 2009 by running phone record searches without sufficient intelligence tying some of the numbers...
View ArticleFormer US Marine Imprisoned In Iran For 'Spying' Smuggles Letter To John Kerry
Amir Hekmati, a US citizen accused of espionage and jailed in Iran, has said his televised confession was forced and asserted that he is in fact being held hostage for use in a prisoner exchange and...
View ArticleRussia To Renew Offer To Supply Iran With Missile Systems And Nuclear Reactor
Russian President Vladimir Putin will offer to supply Iran S-300 air defence missile systems as well as build a second reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, the Kommersant business daily reported...
View ArticleTwo FBI Al-Qaeda Experts Recall Watching 9/11 From Yemen: 'We Knew We Could...
MANHATTAN — Twelve years ago today, FBI agents Ali Soufan and Thomas Donlon were in Yemen hunting for the terrorists responsible for the deadly 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17...
View ArticleIt Looks Like North Korea Has Restarted One Of Its Nuclear Reactors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite imagery suggests North Korea has restarted a research reactor capable of producing plutonium for weapons at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, a U.S. research institute and...
View ArticleJihadi From Alabama Reportedly Killed In Somalia
Reports indicate Most Wanted American jihadi killed in Somalia; US expert: 'very likely true'MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A rapping jihadi from Alabama who ascended the ranks of Somalia's al-Qaida-linked...
View ArticleAssad Confirms Chemical Handover Plan, Says US Threat Had Nothing To Do With it
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syria decided to cede control of its chemical weapons because of a Russian proposal and not the threat of U.S. military intervention, Interfax news agency quoted President Bashar...
View ArticleHow An Israeli Commando Turned Computer Genius Became The First 9/11 Victim
This essay is adapted fromNo Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet by Molly Knight Raskin, out now from Da Capo Press.Just before 8 a.m. on...
View ArticleVladimir Putin's 21 Most Provocative Quotes
Never mind Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s diabolical dictator: Consider this combustible quote on Wednesday from Syria’s staunchest ally, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, writing in The New York Times,...
View ArticleF-104 Starfighter Buzzes The Crowd As It Lands
2,580 F-104 were employed by the air forces of 15 countries in about 50 years.The F-104 represented a huge leap forward for all those countries that passed from old subsonic and “forgiving” jets to a...
View ArticleCongressional Sources Cast Doubt On Number Killed In Syrian Chemical Weapons...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the most precise and dramatic details cited by the Obama administration as proof that Syrian forces used chemical weapons in an August 21 attack was the death toll, which...
View ArticleNow It Looks Like The White House May Have Overestimated Syrian Gas Deaths
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the most precise and dramatic details cited by theObama administration as proof that Syrian forces used chemical weapons in an August 21 attack was the death toll, which...
View ArticleAL QAEDA LEADER: 'We Should Bleed America Economically By Provoking It To...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged small-scale attacks inside the United States to "bleed America economically", adding he hoped eventually to see a more significant strike,...
View ArticleDictators Never Looked So Good
Vladimir Putin is saving the United States from another Mideast military intervention. Bashar al-Assad promises to ‘thin the herd’ of jihadists and hold Syria together. And Egypt’s new strongman,...
View ArticleAt Least Three Killed In Truck Bomb Attack On US Consulate In Afghanistan
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least three people were killed when insurgents attacked the U.S. consulate in western Afghanistan's main city on Friday, detonating a powerful truck bomb outside the...
View ArticleVladimir Putin Is 'Basking In The Glory Of Having Flipped The Diplomatic...
Vladimir Putin had had enough.The Russian president spent far too long absorbing criticism from the United States on everything from human rights to his country’s foreign policy.It’s no wonder, then,...
View ArticleUS AND RUSSIA AGREE ON SYRIA CHEMICAL WEAPONS DEAL
Washington and Moscow have agreed a deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov."Providing this...
View ArticleThe Syria Chemical Weapons Deal Has Re-Legitimized Assad And His Regime
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons bargain with Russia and the United States offers another political and military lifeline to the Syrian president, just two years after he was...
View ArticleSouth Korea Shoots And Kills Man Suspected Of Attempting Rare Defection To...
South Korean troops shot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into North Korea on Monday after he ignored repeated warnings to turn back, the defence ministry said.A mistry spokesman said he...
View ArticleThe Military's Cyber Arms Race Includes Middle School Hackers And A Really...
In the eastern New Jersey suburbs, a train carrying radiological material is barreling toward a small town, and it is up to Pentagon cyber-operators to derail it. The town is the kind of idyllic...
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