Topic: National Security Agency

Privacy by definition per the Encarta Dictionary says, ? The former President of the United States signed a secret executive order to allow Spy satellites to aim at Americans. Who is protecting the people of the United States from the protectors? The ...
On December 31, 2006, at midnight on the dot, hundreds of millions of pages of U.S. government secrets will be revealed. After two three-year extensions granted by the Bush administration in response to cries from the CIA, FBI, NSA and other agencies ...

People on the move, events in the news

The General Services Administration has picked three new regional administrators.. George Northcroft is taking charge of GSA's Northwest Region, which covers Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Jason Klumb started work Feb. 24 as regional administrator of GSA's Heartland Region, which includes Iowa, ...
The clich? doesn't seem far off the mark after reading Mark Klein's new book, "Wiring up the Big Brother Machine ... Klein, 64, was a retired AT&T communications technician in December 2005, when he read the New York Times story that blew ...
The Obama administration is planning to use the National Security Agency to screen Internet traffic between government agencies and the private sector, the Washington Post reported Friday.The project was first initiated by the previous administration of president George W. Bush and was ...
Senate Intelligence Committee to hold classified hearing on new wiretapping violationsThe head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that the panel would hold a hearing to get to the bottom of reports that the National Security Agency improperly tapped into the ...

Here's One For The Good Guys

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has rejected a claim by the Obama Administration (echoing that of the Bush administration) that " This case revolves around papers that the Bush Administration turned over to the defunct charity; the the papers allegedly ...

Obama Gets to Keep His BlackBerry

President Obama will get to keep his BlackBerry after waging a vigorous fight with advisers and the Secret Service over its security, reports PCWorld. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said, without elaborating, that Obama would use it to communicate with select ...
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that would continue a controversial surveillance program at the U.S. National Security Agency with limited court oversight, while likely ending lawsuits against telecommunications carriers that participated in the program.. The House on Friday voted ...
According to a Department of Homeland Security report obtained by Forbes. com, a group of unnamed private sector executives representing industries including banking, telecommunications and energy have been meeting with the DHS to find ways to more efficiently swap data on cyber ...
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