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  • August 2008

    • Pakistan Aided Kabul Embassy Attack: US

      New York Times  |  Aug 1, 08 5:33 AM CDT

      Pakistan Aided Kabul Embassy Attack: US

      (Newser) - American intelligence has determined that members of Pakistan's powerful spy agency helped to plan July's bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, reports the New York Times . US authorities based their findings on intercepted messages between the attackers and Pakistani intelligence officers. American officials also obtained new evidence that the Pakistanis have provided information to militants, helping them to escape ahead of US air strikes. More »

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      Pakistan  • Afghanistan  • India  • bombing  • Kabul  • foreign intelligence  • Pakistan intelligence services

  • April 2008

    • US Throws Book at Chinese 'Sleeper' Spy

      Washington Post  |  Apr 3, 08 11:05 AM CDT

      US Throws Book at Chinese 'Sleeper' Spy

      (Newser) - Chi Mak, a Chinese-born engineer, lived quietly with his wife in the LA suburbs for more than two decades, slowly working his way up the ladder at a US defense contractor. Eventually, he gained a security clearance—and access to plans for Navy ships, submarines and weapons, which he secretly copied and sent to Beijing. Mak, it turns out, was one China's extraordinarily patient "sleeper" agents, writes the Washington Post . Last week a federal judge sentenced him to 24 1/2 years. More »

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      China  • spying  • foreign intelligence  • Chi Mak

  • February 2008
  • September 2007

    • Freed Scholar Recounts Iran Prison Ordeal

      CNN  |  Sep 10, 07 12:15 PM CDT

      Freed Scholar Recounts Iran Prison Ordeal

      (Newser) - It took a daily routine for Haleh Esfandiari to stay level-headed during her 105-day stint in Iran's notorious Evin prison. The Iranian-American scholar paced her room for 3 to 4 hours a day, read, and wrote a book in her head to ward off depression. She was treated respectfully, but "a prison is a prison," she said upon returning to the US. More »

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      Iran  • prisoners  • political prisoner  • foreign intelligence  • Haleh Esfandiari  • scholar  • Evin

  • August 2007

    • Congress Spooked Into Passing Broad Spying Law

      New York Times  |  Aug 11, 07 1:01 PM CDT

      Congress Spooked Into Passing Broad Spying Law

      (Newser) - It was a closed-door briefing last month, in which lawmakers were told of a stunning drop in intelligence, that suddenly broke the Democratic opposition to a new spying bill passed last week, the New York Times reports. The Times does a post mortem on the 11th hour passage of the bill—one Democrats had resisted for months—that broadens the White House's power to conduct warrantless eavesdropping. More »

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      warrantless wiretapping  • Democratic Congress  • wiretap  • spy  • foreign intelligence  • eavesdrop

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