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S&P downgrades U.S. credit rating

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Charles Riley - Aug. 05 (Breaking News) - Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded the credit rating of the United States, stripping the world's largest economy of its prized AAA status. In July, S&P placed the United States' rating on "CreditWatch with negative implications" as the debt ceiling debate devolved into partisan bickering.

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Report: Global Cyberattack Under Way for 5 Years

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Mark Hamrick - Aug. 04 (News Report) - A computer security firm says cybercriminals have spent at least the past five years targeting more than 70 government entities, nonprofit groups and corporations around the world to steal troves of data.

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Ex-Spy Alleges Bush White House Sought to Discredit Critic

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Risen - Jun. 16 (News) - A former senior C.I.A. official says that officials in the Bush White House sought damaging personal information on a prominent American critic of the Iraq war in order to discredit him.

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China rejects Google allegation of massive hacking breach as ‘fabrication’

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Cecilia Kang, Ellen Nakashima - Jun. 02 (News) - Google’s allegation that hackers based in China accessed hundreds of Gmail accounts, including some belonging to senior U.S. officials, drew angry denials from Chinese government officials on Thursday, with a foreign ministry spokesman calling the accusation “a fabrication out of thin air.”

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Senate considers Patriot Act despite concerns

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press - May. 24 (News) - Senate considers Patriot Act despite concerns

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Post-Osama, Pak warns US of supply line cut

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - May. 15 (News Report) - Still angry over the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistani lawmakers demanded an end to American missile strikes against Islamist militants on their soil on Saturday, and warned that Pakistan may cut NATO's supply line to Afghanistan if the attacks don't stop. The nonbinding parliamentary resolution reflects the precarious state of the US-Pakistani alliance, which is vital to the war effort in neighboring Afghanistan. The bin Laden raid has brought to the fore a longstanding dilemma that US strikes that Washington says kill militants often are seen by Pakistanis as a violation of sovereignty with mostly civilian victims, exacerbating an already-high anti-American sentiment. During a visit to Afghanistan, US Sen John Kerry, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on Pakistan to be a better partner in the fight against terrorists.

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Obama’s national security team was sharply divided over Osama bin Laden raid

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Joby Warrick, Karin Brulliard - May. 09 (News Report) - President Obama faced sharply divided counsel and, to his mind, barely better-than-even odds of success when he ordered the commando raid last week that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the president said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

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Pentagon releases video found at bin Laden compound

Sat, 07 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - By Anthony Mason, Bob Orr - May. 07 (News Report) - Videotapes obtained during the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout released by the Pentagon revealed images of the Al Qaeda leader preparing his video messages and watching himself on television.

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Videotapes show a glimpse of bin Laden's life in hiding

Sat, 07 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - May. 07 (News Report) - Videotapes obtained during the raid on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad, Pakistan hideout released by the U.S. Saturday revealed images of the Al Qaeda leader preparing his video messages and watching himself on television. The five movies offer the first public glimpse at bin Laden's life behind the walls of his compound in suburban Pakistan. The government-selected clips also provide an opportunity for the U.S. to paint bin Laden in an unflattering light to his supporters. They video include outtakes of his propaganda films and, taken together, portray him as someone obsessed with his own image and how he is portrayed to the world.

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Death of Osama bin Laden: Phone call pointed U.S. to compound --€” and to '€˜the pacer'

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Bob Woodward - May. 06 (News Report) - It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend. Where have you been? inquired the friend. We’ve missed you. What’s going on in your life? And what are you doing now?

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Blackwater’s New Ethics Chief: John Ashcroft

Wed, 04 May 2011 10:27:03 -0700

Wired - By Spencer Ackerman - May. 04 (News Report) - The consortium in charge of restructuring the world’s most infamous private security firm just added a new chief in charge of keeping the company on the straight and narrow. Yes, John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, is now an “independent director” of Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater.

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Petraeus and Panetta said to be up for new posts as part of national security shakeup

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karen DeYoung, Greg Jaffe - Apr. 27 (News) - President Obama is expected this week to nominate Gen. David H. Petraeus to replace Leon Panetta as CIA director and to name Panetta as secretary of defense, U.S. officials said Wednesday, part of a long-anticipated shakeup of his national security team.

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WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Peter Finn - Apr. 25 (Special Report) - Cache of classified military documents also offers tantalizing glimpses into operations of Osama bin Laden right after Sept. 11 attacks.

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Guantanamo Bay: Why Obama hasn’t fulfilled his promise to close the facility

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Peter Finn, Anne E. Kornblut - Apr. 24 (Investigative Report) - This account of the unraveling of Obama’s pledge to close Guantanamo is based on interviews with more than 30 current and former administration officials, as well as members of Congress and their staff, members of the George W. Bush administration, and activists. Many of them would speak about internal or sensitive deliberations only on the condition of anonymity.

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TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Mar. 16 (News) - The Transportation Security Administration is re-analyzing the radiation levels of X-ray body scanners installed in airports nationwide, after testing produced dramatically higher-than-expected results.

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Despite openness pledge, President Obama pursues leakers

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Mar. 07 (News Report) - The Obama administration, which famously pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an unexpectedly aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, highlight national security threats or pursue a personal agenda.

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Soldier Faces 22 New WikiLeaks Charges

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Charlie Savage - Mar. 03 (News) - The Army announced 22 additional charges on Wednesday against Pfc. Bradley Manning, the military intelligence analyst who is accused of leaking a trove of government files to WikiLeaks a year ago.

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US gives fresh details of CIA agent who killed two men in Pakistan shootout

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Ewen MacAskill, Declan Walsh - Feb. 22 (News Report) - US officials have provided fresh details about Raymond Davis, the CIA agent at the centre of a diplomatic stand-off in Pakistan, including confirmation that he had worked for the private security contractor Xe, formerly known as Blackwater. They also disclosed for the first time that he had been providing security for a CIA team tracking militants.

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House Votes to Extend Patriot Act Provisions

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Charlie Savage - Feb. 15 (News) - The House on Monday voted to reauthorize and extend through Dec. 8 three ways in which Congress expanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s counterterrorism powers after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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'A weapon of mass destruction was found in the U.S.': Shock confession of Customs officer

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By David Gardner - Feb. 14 (News Report) - The disturbing revelation came in an interview with San Diego's assistant port director screened by a television channel in the city - but the Customs Department tried to dampen speculation over his remarks.

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Obama assertion: FBI can get phone records without oversight

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Marisa Taylor - Feb. 11 (News Report) - The Obama administration's Justice Department has asserted that the FBI can obtain telephone records of international calls made from the U.S. without any formal legal process or court oversight, according to a document obtained by McClatchy. Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/11/108562/obama-assertion-fbi-can-get-phone.html#ixzz1Dlu8N34K

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Janet Napolitano: US terror threat highest since 9/11

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By BBC Staff - Feb. 09 (News Report) - The threat of terrorism in the US is in some ways "at its most heightened state" since the 9/11 attacks, the US homeland security secretary says.

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Assange Probe Hits Snag

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Julian E. Barnes, Evan Perez - Feb. 09 (News Report) - U.S. prosecutors have been unable to uncover evidence that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange induced an Army private to leak government documents to his website.

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Napolitano Accuses Critics of Politicizing Border Issues

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Julia Preston - Feb. 01 (News) - In a report, the Migration Policy Institute, a research organization in Washington, found that a national program of cooperation with state and local police was not meeting priorities set by the department to focus primarily on deporting immigrants who committed serious crimes.

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Concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood: Israel Fears Regime Change in Egypt - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Der Spiegel - By Gil Yaron - Jan. 28 (News) - Israel is watching developments in Egypt with concern. The government is standing by autocratic Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, out of fear that the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood could take power and start supplying arms to Hamas.

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