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Rights Activists Decry Treatment of Imprisoned WikiLeaks Suspect
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsAmnesty International says that the U.S. military's harsh treatment of the soldier who allegedly passed secrets to WikiLeaks is so inhumane that British officials must intervene. U.K. supporters of Pfc. Bradley Manning argue that while he was born in the United States, he is considered a British citizen "by descent" as well because his mother was born in Wales. Amnesty International called conditions of his detention in a military prison "harsh and punitive" and said they should be improved to conform with international standards, The Guardian reported Tuesday. They have asked British ...
New Handbook Helps Newly Undead Zombies Adjust
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(Oct. 19) -- Zombies may be all the rage in pop culture, but, truth is, all the movies, books and TV shows about the brain-eating former humans have ignored a key audience: the zombies themselves. Just ask self-proclaimed "zombiologist" John Austin, who also designs toys for Hasbro. "Pop culture has trained the human race that when the zombie virus strikes, we die," he told AOL News. "That said, most books cater to the humans." John Austin A new book, "So Now You're a Zombie: A Handbook for the Newly Dead," is reportedly the first zombie book being marketed to zombies, not humans. Austin ...
Kremlin Honors Russian Spies Kicked Out of US
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(Oct. 19) -- The Russian spies arrested by the FBI over the summer and deported from the U.S. have been given top Kremlin honors by President Dmitry Medvedev. A spokesman for the president said a ceremony took place Monday "to hand top state honors to a number of Foreign Intelligence Service employees, including the spies who were working in the United States and returned to Russia in July." Dmitry Lovetsky, AP Anna Chapman was deported from the U.S. this summer for alleged spying for Russia. She now works as a consultant to a Russian bank. There was no word from the Kremlin concerning the ...
Letitia Long Is First Woman to Head Intel Office
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyLetitia A. Long is the nation's first female spy chief. Long takes over Monday as director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a mapping operation that uses satellite imagery to create 3-D interactive maps of places all over the world. Long, 51, has had a 32-year career that included stops as deputy director of Naval Intelligence, undersecretary of defense for intelligence and the job she is leaving as second in command at the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Associated Press reported. The United States has had three female secretaries of state -- Hillary Clinton, Condeleezza ...
Senators Hold Up Vote on James Clapper, Obama Pick for Intelligence Czar
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyA confirmation vote on President Obama's choice to head the nation's spy network, James Clapper, could be stalled until after the Senate's summer recess due to "holds" imposed on the nomination by Republican senators. One of them, Sen. John McCain , (R-Ariz), got what he wanted Tuesday afternoon when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report that he had sought on oversight and cost overruns in intelligence technology programs, Fox News reported. McCain dropped his hold, but two other senators, Kit Bond of Missouri, and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, were still blocking a ...
US Braces for Blowback Over Leaked Documents
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 27) -- Operatives inside Afghanistan and Pakistan who have worked for the U.S. against the Taliban or al-Qaida may be at risk following the disclosure of thousands of once-secret U.S. military documents, former and current officials said. As the Obama administration scrambles to repair any political damage to the war effort in Congress and among the American public by the WikiLeaks revelations, there are also growing concerns that some U.S. allies abroad may ask whether they can trust America to keep secrets, officials said. Speaking in the Rose Garden Tuesday, President ...
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Speaks 'Treason' — Fluently
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailySome 70 years ago, actor Errol Flynn as Robin Hood responded to the accusation "You speak treason!" with the now-classic retort, "Fluently." We all loved that kind of treason, and maybe you'll learn to love this kind too. You gotta admit Mr. Assange is hot. (Yes, I'm shallow. All you deep people out there, move along.) Julian Assange, whose website WikiLeaks just released 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, hails from Errol Flynn's country of Australia. As does the charismatic Hugh Jackman. Jackman alone makes up for Australia giving us pop crooner Peter Allen (whom ...
Opinion Roundup: More Intelligence, Less Safety
By not in system - AOL News(July 19) -- Dana Priest and William Arkin's Washington Post expose of the fast-growing intelligence community in their first installment of "Top Secret America" has plenty of people talking. Making Us Less Safe What's most noteworthy about all of this is that the objective endlessly invoked for why we must acquiesce to all of this -- National Security -- is not only unfulfilled by "Top Secret America," but actively subverted by it. ... The article details how ample information regarding alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and attempted Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab was collected ...
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