Showing posts with label security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label security. Show all posts
At Least 1,340 Clinton Emails Contained Classified Material
by Anita Kumar. She had claimed zero. At least 1,340 emails that Hillary Clinton sent or received contained classified material, according to the State Department’s latest update from its ongoing review of more than 30,000 emails. The State Department released a new batch of 3,007 pages of Clinton’s emails after 1:30 a.m. Friday in response to a court ... MORE
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classified,
crime,
deception,
dishonesty,
e-mail,
FBI,
Hillary Clinton,
investigation,
security
Robert Hackett: No, NSA Phone Spying Has Not Ended
Only the framework changed. Plenty of surveillance going on. At 11:59 P.M. on Saturday night, the U.S. National Security Agency
supposedly yanked the cord on its bulk telephone records collection,
thereby ending an expansive surveillance program that the nation’s
intelligence community put in place in the wake of the September 11, ... MORE
TSA Screens Holiday Travelers Once Again, With Feeling
by James Bovard. Flyers must surrender privacy along with boarding passes. If you use hand sanitizer when traveling, the Transportation Security Administration can badger you as if you were a terrorist suspect. TSA is one of the biggest hassles many Americans will encounter this holiday season. I learned that firsthand while flying home from ... MORE
Anthony L. Fisher: France Cracks Down On Civil Liberties
Warrantless raids, house arrests and more. Last Friday, France's parliament overwhelmingly passed a three-month extension of the national state of emergency, granting broad powers to law enforcement and significantly curtailing civil liberties. The Guardian summarizes some of the new security measures: Expanded powers to immediately ... MORE
Bridget Bowman: Rand Paul Takes Aim At D.C. Gun Laws
Protecting oneself in the nation's capital. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is once again drawing the ire of the District of Columbia’s congresswoman by taking aim at D.C.’s gun laws. On Thursday, the libertarian presidential candidate announced he plans to introduce the “Defend Our Capital Act,” which would dismantle some of the District’s gun laws and ... MORE
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concealed carry,
government,
gun control,
gun rights,
protection,
rights,
security,
self-defense
Stephen Lendman: Police State Europe
An opportunity for tyranny. Churchill once said: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” More recently, former Obama White House chief of staff/current Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said earlier: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Post-9/11, ... MORE
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authority,
government,
law enforcement,
Patriot Act,
police,
police state,
security,
tyranny
Jeannie DeAngelis: Syrian Refugees - 'Trust Not The horse'
UN says 72% of refugees are male. If one were to ask your everyday educationally challenged American what a Trojan horse is, the answer would probably include at least one reference to an equine-sized condom. Conversely, on the Syrian-Turkish border, where ISIS militants are more interested in world domination than they are safe sex, ... MORE
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extremist,
ISIS,
Islamic state,
Muslim,
policy,
propaganda,
refugees,
security,
Syria,
terrorism
Map Shows Where Syrian Refugees Have Resettled In USA
From Turlock, CA to Kissimmee, FL. The refugees who have arrived from Syria since 2012 have been placed in 130 towns and cities. They are among the most vulnerable people in the war: single mothers and their children; religious minorities; victims of violence or torture. Some of them have reached large cities like Houston, but most have ... MORE
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data,
government,
immigration,
Islam,
policy,
politics,
refugees,
security,
Syria,
terrorism
Despite Paris Attacks, Obama Administration Moves To Increase And Accelerate The Number Of Syrian Refugees
An invitation to catastrophe. The Obama administration is moving to increase and accelerate the number of Syrian refugees who might be admitted into the United States by opening new screening outposts in Iraq and Lebanon, administration officials told Reuters on Friday. The move comes after President Barack Obama pledged in September to ... MORE
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government,
immigration,
ISIS,
Islam,
Obama,
policy,
politics,
refugees,
security,
terrorism
Evan Schuman: Turn That Old Phone Into A Privacy Device
New way to safeguard calls. Most forms of communication used by enterprises these days are highly prone to being intercepted, whether by law enforcement, cyberthieves, corporate spies, or wayward employees and contractors. That leaves enterprise IT open to new approaches to safeguard communications. I just saw one creative idea on the ... MORE
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cell phones,
government,
information,
privacy,
security,
self-interest,
strategy,
technology
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