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CIA ran at least two secret prisons in Lithuania, inquiry confirms
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran at least two secret detention facilities in the Baltic nation of Lithuania, a parliamentary inquiry has found. The sites were set up by Lithuanian intelligence services for the CIA, according to the report published on Tuesday. But the head of the inquiry said…
‘Iranian Cyber Army’ briefly takes Twitter offline world-wide
Popular microblogging site Twitter was briefly shut down overnight, its home page replaced with an image claiming the site had been hacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army.” The website’s official blog acknowledged the disruption but gave no details as to how the site had been disrupted and who was responsible.…
Twitter hacked by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’
Popular microblogging site Twitter was briefly shut down overnight, its home page replaced with an image claiming the site had been hacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army.” The website’s official blog acknowledged the disruption but gave no details as to how the site had been disrupted and who was responsible.…
GOP flubs attempt to counter ‘lude’ pranksters
Not satisfied with URL-shortening services like Tinyurl.com and Bit.ly, which are evidently not conservative enough in the way they shorten Internet addresses, the Republican Party has launched its own. GOP.am‘s motto is “making long URLs … conservative.” But unlike most other address-shortening services, GOP.am doesn’t just take you to a…
Watchdog slams ‘bogus’ Justice Dept. demand for news site’s visitor logs
Right-wing commentators point a finger at Obama, draw parallel to White House-Fox News battle A Justice Department subpoena requesting all available information on all visitors to an independent news site is raising serious privacy concerns, and questions about how much information the US government is storing about its citizens’ news…
Pennsylvania GOP puts hammer and sickle in the ‘O’ in Obama
Perhaps the Pennsylvania Republican Party has been watching too much Glenn Beck. An ad that links to the state party’s Web site is implying that President Barack Obama is not just a socialist, but an old-style communist, with a graphic that features the Soviet hammer and sickle inside the ‘O’…
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