Suspected of spying, planning terror attack because of TA picture

"Russian tourist tries to take picture against backdrop of Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv and is pounced by security personnel accusing her of spying, planning terror attack for Hizbullah. Security personnel search her belongings, interrogate her, and squeeze every bit of desire...

Russia Arrests Lithuanian Spy

Daily News "The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has reportedly detained top-level executive officials from the Federal Penitentiary Service on suspicion of spying for Lithuania."

Orwell Today

"Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc. By the end of 1935 I had still failed to reach a firm decision. The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written..."

Weapons of Mass Deception

"I came across this interesting item at the Literature of Intelligence A Bibilography. Bill Clinton could have used WMD as the excuse to go to war against Serbia, but decided against it unlike George W. Of course the evidence of a nuclear threat from Serbia had as much...

I Was An IslamoFascist For MI6

"My pal Rambling Socialist picked up on the fact that the master of self deception, President Musharraf of Pakistan in his new book claims that Omar Saeed Sheikh was a British Spy for MI6."

Tortoise or Turtle

"The U.S. contines to refuse to consider handing over control of the Internet to a UN style body like the International Telecommunications Union, because it might be too slow to implement rules and technology. Well that's the excuse, the reality is of course the Americans...

A Failure of Imagination

"Why do they always say this? "Never in my worst nightmare did I anticipate that the circumstances currently surrounding HP could ever occur," she said. Technology Giant Hewlett-Packard Admits to Spying on Journalists, Board Members "

Hewlett Chairwoman Resigns; Two Others Fired Over Spying

"Hewlett-Packard today announced the immediate resignation of its chairwoman, Patricia C. Dunn, the first casualty inside the company over the disclosure of its internal spying operation."

NY Times shocked that Hewlett Packard set to spy on newsrooms...journalists d...

The news, on the face of it, is alarming. One of the world's most powerful corporations doing a feasibility study on "embedding" spies in the Wall Street Journal and CNET.Industrial spying within the news business is, however, as old as journalism itself. There are very few...

Hewlett-Packard roiled by corporate spying scandal

"Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn is clinging to her job as she was battered with accusations that she ordered a probe in which board members and reporters were illegally spied on. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer vowed to prosecute wrongdoers at the end of...

A Bipartisan Stand for the Rule of Law

"Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter said he might ask Majority Leader Bill Frist to take legislation on the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program straight to the Senate floor after opponents on Thursday again blocked the panel from voting on...

Does NSA Wiretapping have any Limits?

"Ok. Here's the thing -- nobody really likes George W. Bush anymore. A Diageo/Hotline poll taken 8/17-8/20 found that 39% of respondents had a favorable opinion of the president, 55% unfavorable and -- a stat I just love -- 1% claim to never even have heard of him. 64.41%...

Nato troops in complex fight

"Investigations are continuing after a Nimrod plane crashed, killing 14 UK military personnel. The plane was lost during an ongoing offensive in southern Afghanistan.Taleban guerrillas hanged a man from a tree in southern Afghanistan over the weekend, accusing him of spying...

NSA Spying on Quakers and Nuns

""BALTIMORE -- Following reports that Baltimore peace groups have been targets of illegal spying, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland today filed public information requests with federal and state authorities. The ACLU said it is concerned that the...