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Justin McLeod's Blog
August 15
Goodbye
They say all good things must come to an end. With that, I'm leaving WDBJ and the news business. I've accepted a position as the community relations coordinator for Roanoke City Schools. There are several reasons why I'm switching...Tags: Michael Jackson, Boston Red Sox, Pornography, Memorial Day, Viola Davis
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Edward Snowden calls U.S. intelligence 'aggressively criminal'
WASHINGTON -- Edward Snowden, the former U.S. government contractor who leaked secret details of official surveillance programs, pledged Monday to release more information about U.S. intelligence-gathering methods that he described as “nakedly,...Tags: Hong Kong, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., China, National Security Agency, National Government
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Insight: FBI relies on secret U.S. surveillance law, records show
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has used secret evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to prosecute at least 27 accused terrorists since 2007, according to a Reuters review of public records. While the recent spotlight has...Tags: Uzbekistan, National Government, Al-Qaeda, FBI, U.S. Congress
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ANALYSIS-European cloud computing firms see silver lining in PRISM scandal
Reuters* Internet spying scandal boosts European cloud services * Doubts over security of data on U.S.-owned servers * Europe wants to build cloud sector to rival U.S. players * Domestic agencies may be watching even if U.S. excluded By Leila Abboud and Paul...Tags: Germany, National Government, Computer Networking and Internet, Google Inc., Data Protection
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Analysis: European cloud computing firms see silver lining in PRISM scandal
ReutersPARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - France has its "Sovereign Cloud" project while across the Rhine data firms have created the label "Cloud Services: Made in Germany", all trying to reassure big companies that their information is stored away from the prying eyes...Tags: Germany, National Government, Computer Networking and Internet, Google Inc., Government
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Column: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Judges, Barbara A. Mikulski, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, National Security Agency
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British government faces questions over PRISM cyber-snooping
Reuters* Foreign minister to make statement on eavesdropping * Parliament want answers on intelligence requests By Sarah Young LONDON, June 10 (Reuters) - Britain must say if its spies acted illegally after revelations that they received data collected...Tags: United Kingdom, Crime, Law and Justice, Skype, BBC, Politics
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Czech leader clings on after close aide charged with graft
ReutersPRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas was clinging to office on Friday after prosecutors accused a close aide of being at the center of a corrupt web of political favors and secret surveillance. The leader of a junior partner in the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Organized Crime, National Government, Criminals, Bribery
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NSA leaks shift focus to intel contractors
An intelligence contractor's disclosure of covert National Security Agency surveillance programs reopened a debate Monday over how much the government relies on private companies for spy work and whether those firms must do more to vet employees and...
Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, National Government, Fort Meade (military base), Computer Networking and Internet, General Contracting
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While working for spies, Snowden was secretly prolific online
ReutersBy John Shiffman, Mark Hosenball and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - While working for U.S. intelligence agencies, Edward Snowden had another secret identity: an online commentator who anonymously railed against citizen surveillance and...Tags: Arts and Culture, Gaming Industry, University of Maryland, College Park, National Government, Culture
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Tim Weiner: Open up rulings of secret court to protect democracy
The U.S. has forsworn secret prisons. But we have reams of secret laws for our secret intelligence agencies, interpreted by a secret court that hands down secret rulings. The time is ripe to declassify the rulings, enough to reassure us that the rule of...
Tags: Jarmes R. Clapper, National Government, Richard Nixon, Verizon Communications, FBI
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Ex-CIA worker revealed as source of spy agency leaks
LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - An ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency said he was the man who had leaked details of a top secret U.S. surveillance programme, acting out of conscience to protect "basic liberties for...Tags: PRISM (surveillance program), Hong Kong, National Security Agency, Career and Workplace, Employees
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