(Xinhua) Updated: 2010-03-12 16:52
BEIJING – China’s Information Office of the State Council published a report titled “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009” here Friday.
Following is the full text:
The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009 on March 11, 2010, posing as “the world [...]
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Perhaps it is time for the agencies to pool their resources and create a single entity that is responsible for all jurisdictions of the country and has the mandate to protect all critical infrastructures for all levels of government, private sector and its citizens. DHS and the FBI need to refocus on their other duties [...]
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Also tagged BATF, CIA, Counterterrorism, Crime, Cyber Attacks, Cybersecurity, DARPA, DHS, DOD, FEMA, Hackers, Hacking, Intelligence, National Security, Networks, NSA, Pentagon, Robert Mueller, RSA Conference, STRATCOM, TSA
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We’ve all seen a television show or a movie about an undercover narcotics cop who become crooked. He loses the trust of his colleagues, then his family. Soon, the only contacts he has are with the world of drug dealers that he originally set out to destroy. Now picture this scenario of the criminal cop [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan, CIA, Cocaine, Colombia, Corruption, Crime, DEA, Douglas Valentine, Drug Policy, Drug Trafficking, Heroin, Informers, Intelligence, Law, Narcs, Pakistan, Terrorism, The Phoenix Program, Vietnam War, War on Drugs
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Microbiologist Meryl Nass Responds to FBI Closing Anthrax Case
The FBI’s report, documents and accompanying information (only pertaining to Ivins, not to the rest of the investigation) were released on Friday afternoon … which means the FBI anticipated doubt and ridicule. The National Academies of Science (NAS) is several months away from issuing its $879,550 report on the microbial forensics, [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Following the report earlier this week that the FBI regularly broke the ECPA law, in obtaining information from telcos without going through the proper process (and, in some cases using just a post it note!), some interesting details from the full report have come to light. The two key ones? First, “the Obama administration issued [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The FBI and telecom companies collaborated to routinely violate federal wiretapping laws for four years, as agents got access to reporters’ and citizens’ phone records using fake emergency declarations or simply asking for them.
The Justice Department Inspector General’s internal audit, released Wednesday, harshly criticized how the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Communications Analysis Unit — a counterterrorism [...]
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Also tagged Crime, DOJ, Electronic Communications Protection Act, Espionage, Inspector General, Intelligence, Law, Phone Records, Spying, Surveillance, Telecoms, Wiretapping
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Scott Horton speaks with Keith Olbermann about The Guantánamo “Suicides”—a cover-up of the possible homicides of three prisoners at Guantánamo in 2006.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Would you pay bribes to get a piece of a $15 million contract to equip the presidential guard of an African country?
According to the Justice Department, almost two dozen executives said yes, put it in writing and wrote checks — without realizing that the African officials getting the bribes were actually undercover F.B.I. agents.
The play-acting [...]
The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions.
E-mails obtained by The Washington Post detail [...]
The former leader of the Spanish Communist Party is threatening to take the FBI to court after it used his photograph to compose its latest mugshot of Osama bin Laden.
“I am stupefied the FBI has used my photo to compose a picture of a terrorist,” said Gaspar Llamazares, now the parliamentary spokesman for the United [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
In its firestorm of coverage, the mainstream media has overlooked a potential link between the two biggest domestic terrorism stories of the day: the shootings at Ford Hood and the decision by the Justice Dept. to try accused 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in New York City.
Five time Emmy-winning former ABC News correspondent and HarperCollins [...]
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Imagine The Sopranos, The Wire and Gordon Gekko’s Wall Street all rolled into one. You don’t have to: the FBI has just broken one of the largest-ever insider dealing rings in Wall Street. It wire-tapped its way into a seedy world of secret tips, kickbacks and disposable, pre-paid mobile phones. A network including staff of [...]
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Also tagged Ethics, Fraud, Galleon Group, Hedge Funds, IBM, Insider Trading, Intel, Law, Raj Rajaratnam, Stock Market, Wall Street, Wiretapping, Zvi Goffer
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The ever-churning list is said to contain more than 400,000 unique names and over 1 million entries. The committee was told that over that same period, officials asked each day that 600 names be removed and 4,800 records be modified. Fewer than 5 percent of the people on the list are U.S. citizens or legal [...]
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Raj Rajaratnam (pictured right), is a one of America’s wealthiest men. He is a portfolio manager for Galleon Group, a hedge fund with up to $7 billion in assets. He stands accused of conspiring to use insider information while trading securities in publicly traded companies. Google Inc., the highly successful search engine company is one [...]
Thursday, October 1, 2009
“The FBI’s misuse of its gag power continues to prevent NSL recipients like Doe – who have the best first-hand knowledge of the FBI’s use and abuse of NSL power – from participating in the Patriot Act debate in Congress,” said Melissa Goodman, staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project.
Unable to speak out about [...]
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