Monthly Archives: June 2013

Retired U.S. Marine Gen. James Cartwright under investigation for alleged Stuxnet leak

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“A former high-ranking US military officer is being probed for allegedly leaking details about a US cyberattack on Iran, a US media report said. Citing unnamed legal sources, NBC News said retired Marine Gen. James Cartwright has been told he is under investigation for allegedly disclosing details about the Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.  Cartwright, 63, is the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The four-star general retired from the military in August 2011. Stuxnet, tailored specifically to target Iran’s uranium enrichment operation, struck Iran in 2010 and reportedly dealt a serious blow to its disputed nuclear program.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/28/retired-u-s-marine-gen-james-cartwright-under-investigation-for-alleged-stuxnet-leak/

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NYPD collaborated with CIA on surveillance after 9/11

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“Campaigners for greater accountability at New York’s powerful police force have seized on a report that details for the first time the extent of the collaboration between the CIA and the NYPD in the years after 9/11.  The formerly-classified inspector general’s report also raises new questions over whether the spy agency’s partnership with the nation’s largest police department amounted to unofficial cover for CIA officers to operate in the US in ways that could otherwise be deemed unlawful. The 12-page document contains the December 2011 findings of an investigation into the CIA’s training and support of the NYPD that included embedding four officers in the department.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/27/nypd-collaborated-with-cia-on-surveillance-after-911/

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‘Don’t Spy On Me’

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Former East German secret police captain says NSA spying ‘a dream come true’

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“A former agent of the Stasi, the much-feared East German communist secret police, has said that the recently revealed NSA spying program would have been his agency’s ‘dream come true’ because it has collected ‘so much information, on so many people.’  Wolfgang Schmidt, 78, said in an interview that it is ‘the height of naivete’ to think that the information will never be used against U.S. citizens.  As a lieutenant colonel in the Stasi, he said that technology limited the secret police’s ability to satisfy its voracious appetite for information. Their listening devices, he said, could only spy on 40 telephone lines at once. Targets had to be prioritized.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/27/former-east-german-secret-police-captain-says-nsa-spying-a-dream-come-true/

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Twitter CEO defends ‘principled’ data gathering policy

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“Twitter is holding to a ‘principled’ policy on national security data requests and will ‘push back’ in some cases to protect the privacy of its users, its chief executive said Wednesday.  Dick Costolo, appearing at a forum at the Brookings Institution in Washington, declined to comment on whether Twitter had specific requests under the vast data-gathering program called PRISM made public this month. But he noted that Twitter has gone to court in certain cases to fight ‘gag’ orders and to allow users to be in informed of how their own data is used.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/26/twitter-ceo-defends-principled-data-gathering-policy/

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One Dead After Charlotte Police Stage Drug Sting on Elementary School Grounds

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“An undercover drug sting in the parking lot of a Charlotte, North Carolina, elementary school ended up with one person killed and one person wounded, and a community wondering why police chose that particular location for their operation.  Police set up a marijuana buy between an undercover police officer, an informant, and two teenagers last Tuesday afternoon. Police said that during the drug deal, Walker pulled a gun and shot the informant in the shoulder in an attempt to rob him. The undercover police officer then shot Walker in the head, killing him. The teen who accompanied Walker fled, but was arrested later.”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/jun/24/one_dead_after_charlotte_police

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Texas teen charged with making terroristic threat after online joke

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“‘LOL’ stands for ‘laughing out loud,’ and ‘jk’ means ‘just kidding,’ but police didn’t think it was funny. Neither did a woman from Canada who saw the posting. Justin’s dad says the woman did a Google search and found his son’s old address was near an elementary school and she called police.  Justin Carter was arrested the next month and has been jailed since March 27. He’s charged with making a terroristic threat and is facing eight years in prison, according to his dad.  ‘These people are serious. They really want my son to go away to jail for a sarcastic comment that he made,’ added Carter.”

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Texas-teen-charged-with-making-terroristic-threat-after-online-joke-212931111.html

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Police Officer Takes 11 Year-Old Girl to Criminal Court for Wearing Too Much Perfume At School

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Police Officer Takes 11 Year-Old Girl to Criminal Court for Wearing Too Much Perfume At School

“Know your rights when talking to a police officer: http://policecrimes.com/police.html There’s no law that requires you to talk to a police officer.”

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DARPA Manager Explains Multiple Ways Cars Can Be Hacked And Completely Taken Over

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DARPA Manager Explains Multiple Ways Cars Can Be Hacked And Completely Taken Over

“Dr. Kathleen Fisher speaks on DARPA’s High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) program.”

http://libertycrier.com/tech/darpa-manager-explains-multiple-ways-cars-can-be-hacked-and-completely-taken-over/

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More Details Emerge on the Death of Michael Hastings

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More Details Emerge on the Death of Michael Hastings

“Our friend and colleague Michael Hastings died early Tuesday morning in a one-car crash in Los Angeles. Wikileaks’ Twitter account is now reporting that hours before his death, Hastings contacted Wikileaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson saying he was being investigated by the FBI. Some establishment media outlets have taken care to try and assault Hasting’s character and achievements as a journalist. Cenk Uygur breaks it down.”

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