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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008By Studs Terkel, Quentin Young, Barbara Flynn Currie and James Montgomery More than six years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration remains committed to using the specter of those attacks (and other possible new attacks) as justification for reckless, unlawful and unconstitutional behavior. This pattern can be seen most clearly in the current effort in Congress to grant the administration unchecked power to spy ...
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Royal bugging claims denied
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Claims the Royal Family was being bugged by GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) have been denied at the Princess Diana inquest. Rumours were rife by 1993 that the Government's intelligence and security organisation may have been behind the infamous Squidgygate and Camillagate tapes....
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US intelligence to spy on virtual worlds
Monday, February 25th, 2008By Ryan Singel
Be careful who you frag. Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games, according to a data-mining report from the Director of National ...
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Calls for probe into prison bugging
Sunday, February 10th, 2008An inquiry has been demanded into claims lawyers' legally-protected conversations with clients in jail are routinely bugged. Opposition parties said such a practice would strike "at the heart" of the justice system and suggested it could only have been sanctioned by ministers. And one leading QC warned that the courts could let violent offenders walk free if it was shown their meetings with lawyers had been taped. Justice Secretary Jack ...
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Was bugging carried out for the FBI?
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Sean O’Neill The inquiry into the bugging of a terrorist prisoner and his MP has been asked to examine whether the eavesdropping was carried out at the request of the FBI. The Times has learnt that two weeks after the taped conversation with Sadiq Khan, MP, in June 2006, Babar Ahmad was visited in Woodhill jail by Metropolitan Police Special Branch detectives who told him: “We could help ...
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MP first probed by MI5 over 9/11
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008By NICK PARKER THOMAS WHITAKER and GRAEME WILSON BUGGING scandal MP Sadiq Khan was first probed by security services over his association with a 9/11 terrorist, The Sun can reveal. And it has emerged that Justice Secretary Jack Straw knew of concerns over the Muslim MP’s visits to another jailed terror suspect TWO MONTHS ago. Security sources told yesterday how 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui asked ...
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Illegal bug uncovered in second UK prison
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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US Senate to grant immunity in illegal wiretapping
Sunday, January 27th, 2008By Andre Damon The Democratic-controlled Senate moved Thursday to shield telecommunications companies that aided the Bush administration’s illegal domestic spying program from lawsuits. By a vote 60 to 36, the Senate rejected any provision in its upcoming amendment to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would open the companies to prosecution in civil courts. Congress passed a temporary amendment to the FISA Act before its Labor Day break ...
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U.S. to use Spy Evidence against Citizens?
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Determining what NSA electronic surveillance can be used by police or introduced into court by Government, may be the next battle Americans have to fight. Dan Scott It is not surprising the Telecom Industry wants "Retroactive Immunity" from at least forty law suits after they helped government spy on Americans' personal phone calls, faxes and emails? But Not so obvious or discussed by major ...
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Cheney demands ‘permanent’ wiretaps
Thursday, January 24th, 2008The US Vice President, Dick Cheney calls on Congress to 'permanently' allow warrantless wiretaps on foreign electronic communications. During a speech to the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Wednesday, Cheney said it is 'urgent' to renew and update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) 'immediately and permanently'. The 30-year-old FISA is a federal law allowing physical and electronic surveillance and the collection of 'foreign intelligence information' ...
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The List: The World’s Top Spy Agencies
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008With the Cold War long over, the CIA no longer faces any real competition, right? Wrong. The world’s top espionage agencies are as busy as ever. This week, the FP List looks at the countries that best know how to wield a cloak and dagger.
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Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
Country: Russia
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Israeli satellite to spy on Iran
Monday, January 21st, 2008Israel has successfully launched a spy satellite which will be used to gather intelligence on Iran's activities, a new report says. The TECSAR satellite is particularly important for Israel since it can be used to 'keep tabs on Iran's nuclear program', the report said citing unnamed Israeli officials. The officials revealed that the TECSAR satellite operates with an enhanced footage technology, allowing it to transmit images ...
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Confirmed: Ability to spy on remote calls with VoIP
Monday, December 3rd, 2007In October, two security experts at hacker conference ToorCon9 in San Diego hacked into their hotel's corporate network using a Cisco VoIP phone By Linda Leung Framingham Cisco confirmed it is possible to eavesdrop on remote conversations using Cisco VoIP phones. In its security response, Cisco says: "an attacker with valid Extension Mobility authentication credentials could cause a ...
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US planning multi-billion dollar spy satellites
Saturday, December 1st, 2007The US is pursuing a multibillion-dollar programme to develop the next generation of spy satellites, the first major effort of its kind since the Pentagon cancelled the ambitious and costly Future Imagery Architecture system two years ago, according to US officials.The new system, known as BASIC, would be launched by 2011 and is expected to cost $2-4bn (€1.4-2.8bn), according to US officials familiar with the programme. Photo reconnaissance satellites ...
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Bush administration forced to turn over spying docs
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Bush administration forced to turn over spying documents by Friday Declan McCullagh A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to divulge documents related to immunizing telecommunications companies from lawsuits, saying they illegally opened their networks to the National Security Agency. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco gave the Office of the Director of National Intelligence until November 30 (Friday) to turn over documents relating to conversations it ...
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