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UK Government To 'Spy' On Every Call, Email, Web Search

Telegraph | Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Government Monitor, State Spy, State Spying, Spying, Home Office, Cover Surveillance, State to Spy on Email, Technology News

Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by go...

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The True Story of Area 51's UFOs

Keith Thomson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Technology

Read More: Secrecy, Area 51, Unlv, Cia, Ufos, Airplanes, Spying, Extraterrestrials, Cold War, Spies, Air Force, Top-Secret, Flying-Saucers, Technology News
Keith Thomson

Area 51 is heard in the same breath as Roswell, Amityville and Loch Ness. But now, with the CIA's declassification of aircraft testing there, we can finally know the truth.

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Middle East Spies: Top 5 List

Foreign Policy | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Omar Suleiman, Middle East Spy, Prince Muqrin Bin Abdul-Aziz, Foreign Affairs, Spy Satellite, Iran, Spying, General Qassem Suleimani, Spy, Middle East, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Spies, Israel, Middle East Spies, Syria, Assef Shawkat, Meir Dagan, Advocacy, World News

In a region known for cutthroat espionage, these five intelligence chiefs have leveraged their skills and connections to gain influence far above thei...

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Liz Cheney: Wrong on National Security, Wrong About Our President

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: East Berlin, Cia, Liz Cheney, President Obama, 9/11, Cold War, Spying, Obama Moscow, West Berlin, Rendition, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

Liz Cheney charges that Obama's arms control negotiations in Moscow make us weaker. This is a clear indication of someone who clearly missed the freight train of history over the past two decades.

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U.S. Department of Defense to Use Hummingbirds as Spies

Levi Novey | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: US Military, Aircraft, Military, Department of Defense, Hummingbird, Spies, Birds, Spying, Technology, Robots, Robot, Green News
Levi Novey

Robotic hummingbirds will be able to discretely enter areas where people would not be able to go without being detected and will look so realistic that people could easily be fooled.

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Spain's Spy Chief Resigns: Used Gov. Money To Vacation, Staffers To Remodel His Home

AP | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Spying, Spain, Spain Intelligence Agency, Alberto Saiz, World News

MADRID — Spain's intelligence chief resigned Thursday amid allegations he used government money to go on hunting and fishing trips and had staff...

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Reliable Sources: Raising the Stakes of the Interrogation Debate

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kgb, CIA Interrogations, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Curveball, Enhanced Interrogations, Spying, Espionage, Politics News
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Protecting our country from terrorist attacks by obtaining reliable intelligence is essential. But it is also essential to assure U.S. moral authority by acting in a manner that is consistent with our high ideals.

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WATCH: Invasion of Privacy -- Filmmaker Has Own Eye Replaced with Video Camera

Lee Camp | Posted 05.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Spying, Video, Bionic Eye, Filmmaker Eye Replaced, Funny Video, Privacy, Comedy News
Lee Camp

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Jane Harman Denies Interceding In Israeli Spy Case

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aipac, Nsa, Jane Harman, Spying, Jane Harman Nsa, National Security Agency, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is considering dropping its case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of illegally disclosing nat...

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Is Congressman Jane Harman An Israeli Agent of Influence?

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Jane Harman AIPAC, Jane Harman, Congressional Quarterly, Jane Harman Israel, Spying, Israel Spying, Israel, World News
Jacob Heilbrunn

Either Harman is being viciously smeared or she has been functioning as a stooge for pro-Israel interests.

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Roxana Saberi and the Iranian Fast Spy-Making Machine!

Omid Memarian | Posted 04.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Roxana Saberi, Iran, Spying, Intelligence Agency, State Department, American-Iranianjournalist, Islamic Republic of Iran, Home News
Omid Memarian

The fact that the Iranian government consistently comes up with news of the arrest of a "spy", show a great amount of incompetency and desperation in its intelligence services.

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Egypt Arrests 7 Arab Israelis For Spying For Hamas, Hezbollah

Haaretz | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Arab Israelis, Hezbollah Spy, Arab Israeli Spies, Egypt, Hamas Spy, Foreign Affairs, Spies, Hezbollah, Spying, Hamas, Israel, Advocacy, World News

A prominent Islamist lawyer has told the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera that security forces have detained about 50 Egyptians, Palestinians and Lebane...

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The Mossad's Plan to Stop Iran

Keith Thomson | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Obama Iran, Mossad, Spying, Iran, Rumint, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Sun Tzu, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Intelligence, Cia, Middle East, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Iran Nuclear Program, Syria, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News
Keith Thomson

I recently asked an intelligence source: what's being done to thwart Iran? His answer: penetration of the Iranian nuclear apparatus at the highest levels. The CIA is trying. The Mossad is more successful.

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How Snooping Can Hurt Your Relationship

CNN.com | Michelle Goodman | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Information, Relationships, Honesty, Spying, Getting Information, Snooping, Snoop, Living News

Whether it's peering in a party host's medicine cabinet or peeking at a date's unopened mail, spying on friends, family and significant others is as c...

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Former CIA Officer Describes Retribution for Whistle Blowing

Jeff Stein | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

Read More: Catch-22, Whistle-Blowers, Cia, Spies, Spying, Iraq War, baghdad_station, publications_review_board, darkess_at_noon, paul_gimigliano, Espionage, ilana_greenstein, arthur_koestler, World News
Jeff Stein

Ilana Sara Greenstein, a highly praised CIA operations officer for six years until quitting in disgust in 2008, says she was punished for complaining about gross mismanagement.

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Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case

Wired | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Warrantless Spying, Warrantless Wiretapping, First 100 Days, Cia, Obama Bush, Obama First 100 Days, 100 Days, Obama Bush Doj, President Obama, Warrantless Spying, Spying, Obama, Barack Obama, Politics News

The Obama administration fell in line with the Bush administration Thursday when it urged a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a closely watched s...

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Obama on Torture: Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

Ari Melber | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Nsa, change.gov, Bob Fertik, Ccr, Obama, Spying, Geneva Conventions, Gitmo, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Patrick Fitzgerald, Obama Torture Commission, Torture, Politics News
Ari Melber

This answer tracks the language of many torture apologists (and advocates) in Washington, who posit a choice between protecting the country today and second-guessing the past.

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Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov

Ari Melber | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: change.gov, Patrick Fitzgerald, Spying, Special Rosecutor, Fitzgerald, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News
Ari Melber

Thousands of Americans are asking whether Obama will order an independent investigation into allegations of torture and illegal surveillance by the U.S. government. We deserve a "yes," or a "no."

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CIA Man: Spies' Reaction to Panetta "Overwhelmingly Negative"

Congressional Quarterly | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Spying, Obama Appointments, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News

A retired senior CIA operations officer who quit last summer after 20 years tracking terrorists says the rank-and-file reaction to President-elect Oba...

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Ask Obama For a Torture Special Prosecutor

Ari Melber | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Blogosphere, Nsa Surveillance, Ari Melber, Robert Gibbs, Blagojevich, Gov. Blagojevich, Glenn Greenwald, Eric Holder, Brendan Smith, Surveillance, Obama, Spying, Jesse Lee, Fitzgerald, change.gov, Will Bunch, Bob Fertik, Rod Blagojevich, Macon Philips, Obama Transition Team, Scott Horton, Jonathan Turley, Rachel Maddow, Jeremy Brecher, Fisa, Torture, Special Prosecutor, Obama Transition, Politics News
Ari Melber

The Obama transition team is taking questions again at Change.gov -- while the press has fixated on the Blagojevich scandal, the allegations of torture by officials in the current administration receive scant attention.

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MILF's Problem with MILFs

Keith Thomson | Posted 01.26.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Militants, Milf, Spyware, Spying, Tina Fey, Richard Nixon, Terrorism, 30 Rock, Philippines, MILF Island, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Milfs, World News
Keith Thomson

By sticking with its current acronym, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is in a precarious position made famous by the Nixon fundraising organization, the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP).

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Cuba: Maintaining the Revolution Block by Block, with a File on Every Citizen

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.16.2009 | World

Read More: Cuban Revolution, World, Cuba, Government Surveillance, Politics, Spying, Cdr, Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, World News
Yoani Sanchez

In one of those confusions so common in children, I thought for years that the logo of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution was an enormous eye carrying a machete.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation Defends Americans

Craig Newmark | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Illegal Wiretaps, Eff, Patriot Act, Joe Nacchio, Wiretapping, Spying, Domestic Spying, Politics News
Craig Newmark

There's more drama around the attempts by the current administration to protect people who might have spied illegally on everyday American citizens.

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Memo to Americans Spying for Another Country or Considering It

Keith Thomson | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: On the Ground 2008, Egypt, The Netherlands, Taiwan, Jordan, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, The Philippines, Iraq, China, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Al-Qaeda, Russia, Austria, Greece, Germany, Relationships, Ghana, Spying, Liberia, Japan, El Salvador, France, Ecuador, South Korea, Poland, Libya, Israel, Cuba, North Korea, Politics News
Keith Thomson

A recent Defense Department report cites cases of 173 Americans arrested between 1947 and 2007 for passing state secrets to al-Qaeda, China, Egypt, Cuba, Poland, Germany, Russia, North Korea, France, among others.

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Bob Novak On Valerie Plame Affair: "The Hell With You"

Washingtonian Magazine | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Spying, Valerie Plame, Bob Novak Leak, Cia, Bob Novak, Bob Novack Plame 2008, Novak Plame, Politics News

Bob Novak has been covering politics--and making people mad--for half a century. Now battling a brain tumor, he talks about his illness, the best and ...

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