Bill Bratton Casually Reveals To Cenk Uygur That LAPD Coordinated With The CIA
Former LAPD Police Chief and Collaborate Or Perish! author William Bratton seems to have dropped something of a bomb on Current TV's The Young Turks, telling host Cenk Uygur Tuesday night that his LAPD "had interactions with the CIA" to "to make them aware of our capabilities and our needs."While the CIA's coordination...
CIA Set Up Fake Vaccine Program To Catch Osama Bin Laden
Never accuse the CIA of being uncreative (because they'll find out about it): The agency set up a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of its efforts to obtain DNA evidence proving that terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden and his family were hiding in the suburban neighborhood.A Pakistani doctor working with the...
Jon Stewart & John Hodgman Teach Viewers How To Protect Yourself From Hackers Like LulzSec
With hacking becoming a full-fledged epidemic for the American government, from the CIA and FBI to PBS.org and police departments having their files leaked, Daily Show correspondent John Hodgeman presented viewers with his delightful mustache-- but also with a handy guide to protecting yourself from hackers. The first tip? A flattering remark a day keeps...
Federal Investigators Spied On New York Times Reporter James Risen
Federal authorities have been delving, deeply, into the personal activities of New York Times reporter James Risen in their investigation to discover who leaked information to Risen about a CIA attempt to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program - information Risen wrote about in his 2006 book State of War.
Straight Outta Minority Report: New “Recorded Future” Product Predicts Future Events?
On Wednesday, The Danger Room blogger Noah Shachtman profiled a young information services company called Recorded Future, which monitors the web in real time and, to be perfectly honest, sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi film. Recorded Future uses a collection of futuristic-sounding analytical tools like a “temporal analytics engine” and “sentiment analysis”...
All the News That’s Fit to Wiki? NYT to Open Source C.I.A. Report Research
Yesterday the Justice Department released a 2004 memo detailing abuses that took place inside the CIA’s overseas prisons. Shortly thereafter the NYT took the unusual step of posting the entire report in a document reader on its website and invited "readers to help us annotate and make sense of the new details." ...
CIA Director Creates Headlines with “Salty Language”
The release of an internal report on CIA torture practices in 2004, followed by a memo from the Agency's director Leon Panetta to its employees, are sparked headlines about a hostile Panetta threatening to leave his position. The buzz, however, seems to hover over an alleged "profanity-laced screaming match" between Panetta and...
