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CIA’s big data mission: ‘Collect everything and hang onto it forever’
Speaking to a crowd of technology professionals Wednesday at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City, the Central Intelligence Agency’s chief technology officer explained that the CIA is so infatuated with big data that it tries “to collect everything and hang onto it forever.” During his nearly half-hour talk, CIA…
Obama plan would give spymasters access to Americans’ bank accounts
The Obama administration is planning a proposal to open up the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Center (FinCEN) to spies at the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, Reuters reported Wednesday. The move would ensure that counter-terrorism and anti-money laundering efforts conducted by the nation’s spy agencies…
Former CEO reveals Blackwater worked as ‘virtual extension of the CIA’
The mercenary group formerly known as Blackwater worked as a “virtual extension of the CIA,” the company’s former CEO revealed to Daily Beast reporter Eli Lake, who obtained court documents showing the company argued as much when its executives were facing prosecution. It has long been known that Blackwater, now…
Bin Laden’s son-in-law faces civilian trial in New York City
The son-in-law of notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden and former spokesperson for al-Qaeda was brought to the United States this week after being seized by the Central Intelligence Agency earlier this month, and on Friday morning he will face the American justice system, not from a military prison in Cuba,…
Officials: US and Israel created Flame cyber weapon
A U.S. and Israeli collaboration created the vastly complex cyber weapon Flame, designed to slow Iran’s nuclear program, officials familiar with the mission have told The Washington Post. Development of the Flame virus was overseen by the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and Israel’s military, the report noted.…
Report: Mossad agents posed as CIA to recruit anti-Iranian terrorists
WASHINGTON — Agents with Israel’s Mossad agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah, a report in Foreign Policy magazine said Friday. Using American dollars and US passports, the agents passed themselves off as members of the Central Intelligence Agency in…
Libyan rendition victim files complaint against MI6
A Libyan Islamist has filed a criminal complaint with London police claiming British and US intelligence handed him over to Moamer Kadhafi’s regime in 2004, a rights group said on Thursday. Sami al-Saadi said he and his family of six were detained while living in London, then illegally rendered to Libyan authorities by the foreign…
CIA monitoring Twitter, Facebook for intel and tips
The Central Intelligence Agency is clandestinely gathering troves of information from social media sites, according to a huge report released Friday by The Associated Press’ Kimberly Dozier. Based out of an unassuming building in Virginia, a team known within the organization as the ”vengeful librarians” are tracking chat rooms, blogs, Facebook,…
U.S. reins in drones over diplomatic concerns: report
WASHINGTON — The US spy agency has quietly tightened its rules on drone strikes in Pakistan over concerns about their impact on tense relations with Islamabad, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal, citing senior officials, said the new rules resulted from a behind-the-scenes battle between an aggressive Central Intelligence…
U.S. accuses China, Russia of cyber spying
The Chinese are the world’s “most active and persistent perpetrators” of economic espionage, a US intelligence agency said on Thursday in an unusually blunt report on a sensitive topic. The report on foreign cyber spying efforts submitted to the US Congress also pointed the finger at Russia’s intelligence services, saying…
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