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NEWS ABOUT: foreign intelligence

foreign intelligence stories: 8 news summaries




 US Lets Allies 
 Detain, Grill 
 Terror Suspects 

Program could lead to prisoner abuse, bad intel, critics say

May 23, 09 3:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is stepping up its reliance on foreign allies to capture, interrogate, and detain mid-level terror suspects seized outside of Iraq and Afghanistan, the New York Times reports. In the last 10 months, Middle Eastern governments have handled the cases of about six al-Qaeda operatives. “It’s... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • CIA • Pakistan • Guantanamo Bay • foreign intelligence • interrogations • terror suspects • Obama administration

 Google Earth Helps Amateur 
 Spies Map North Korea

Annotated map exposes graves, nuke facilities—and swimming pools

May 22, 09 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spying on North Korea would seem to be a job for intelligence services, but one PhD student at George Mason University has exposed many of the secrets of the insular regime from his home computer. Piecing together clues from news reports, photos, and eyewitnesses, Curtis Melvin and colleagues have annotated... More »

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North Korea • Google • Internet • Google Earth • map • foreign intelligence

(Newser) - The global economic crisis is raising the threat to national security, the Washington Post reports. Experts and intelligence officials worry that mounting inflation and unemployment in Third World countries could spark radical movements and destabilize friendly governments. What’s more, strained budgets in the West mean less money to... More »

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China • national security • Pakistan • intelligence • United States • recession • foreign intelligence • credit crisis • economic downturn

Pakistan Aided Kabul Embassy Attack: US

Messages between militants and spy agency intercepted

Aug 1, 08 5:33 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

US Throws Book at Chinese 'Sleeper' Spy

One of many highly skilled—and patient— agents for Beijing

Apr 3, 08 11:05 AM CDT
(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... More »

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China • Chi Mak • foreign intelligence • spying • Chinese intelligence • sleeper spies

UPDATED

Bush Urges Congress
to Pass Surveillance Bill

Threat growing as House holds up bill over immunity for telecoms, prez charges

Feb 28, 08 9:29 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush urged Congress this morning to pass an update to the terrorist surveillance bill that expired more than a week ago, CNN reports. Bush said the delay poses "a risk of opening a gap in our intelligence gathering." The bill stalled in the House over a provision... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • foreclosure • surveillance • terrorist • FISA • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act • foreign intelligence • HIV/AIDS • George W. Bush

Freed Scholar Recounts Iran Prison Ordeal

Esfandiari recalls determination not to 'succumb to despair'

Sep 10, 07 12:15 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Congress Spooked Into Passing Broad Spying Law

How a weak president scored a surprising win

Aug 11, 07 1:01 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

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