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Life As A US Drone Operator: 'It's Like Playing A Video Game For Four Years'
"It is a lot like playing a video game," a former Predator drone operator matter-of-factly admits to the artist Omer Fast. "But playing the same video game four years straight on the same level." His...
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Take A Ride On The Navy's Badass Hovercraft And Its Landing Craft Workhorse...
When the U.S. Navy wants to haul a few hundred tons of troops, material, or gear from ship to shore sailors use the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) or the Landing Craft Air Cushioned (LCAC) vehicle, a...
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Bradley Manning Acquitted Of 'Aiding The Enemy,' Convicted Of 19 Counts...
Bradley Manning, who orchestrated the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history, has been acquitted of the most serious charge of aiding the enemy, which carried a possible sentence of...
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Recent Prison Breaks Are Fueling Al Qaeda's Global Comeback
The recent series of prison breaks is not coincidental.In less than a week, we have 500 senior Al Qaeda leaders escape during two assaults on prisons in Iraq, more than 1,000 in a prison assault in...
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Officials Cite 'Due Process' In Refusal To Stop Paying Contractors Who...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has refused to bar 43 individuals or companies from getting U.S. contracts in Afghanistan despite information that they support the Taliban or other enemies of U.S....
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New NSA Leaks Show How Easily The Government Can See Almost Everything You Do...
National Security Agency documents provided to The Guardian by Edward Snowden reveal a system that, as of 2008, allowed analysts to search "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet,"...
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NSA Analysts Can Start Spying On You Without Any Court Or Senior Approval
National Security Agency Analysts don't need a court order to listen in on your communications.Previously, we reported that the authority is granted to NSA analysts when a FISA court judges signs a...
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NSA's 'Widest-Reaching' System Could Read Facebook Chats And Private Messages
Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian has published a massive report detailing a NSA program called XKeyscore that is the spy agency's "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the Internet,...
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The NSA's Own Leaked Slide Shows How Absurd Its Surveillance Is
To understand the absurdity of the NSA surveillance system, just look at this slide from the today's Guardian report about the agency's supposed comprehensive internet surveillance apparatus:Do you see...
View ArticleEven Tony Stark Would Be Impressed With Raytheon's Slow Motion Missile Video
Okay, it's not technically a missile, but the munition— an artillery projectile — certainly looks like a missile.Raytheon's assertion that"Analyses have shown that on average it takes at least 10...
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Small-Town Police Departments Are Getting Billions In Big Military Hardware
In Iraq and Afghanistan, you'll find U.S. troops with M16 rifles, Humvee trucks, and high-tech surveillance equipment, but that military hardware is increasingly showing up in small-town police...
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The FBI Employs Hackers And Buys Dodgy Computer Exploits To Surveil Suspects
The FBI is terrified of hackers, so it avoids them at all costs, unless of course the agency needs to buy some nifty cyber surveillance tools.Intel agents have been buying sophisticated "hacking"...
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Edward Snowden Walked Right Into A Bizarre Alliance Between Wikileaks And Russia
One thing that has become clear as the Edward Snowden saga unfolds is that WikiLeaks and Russia have both been integral to the NSA leaker's arrival and extended stay in Moscow.The Kremlin and the...
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The Intrigue Surrounding The Secret CIA Operation In Benghazi Is Not Going Away
In eight months since an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi left four Americans dead, a Republican-led investigation has focused on potential missteps by the White House — and come away with...
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Intrigue Surrounding The Secret CIA Operation In Benghazi Is Not Going Away
In May CNN's Jake Tapper argued that the CIA's presence in Benghazi, where four Americans were killed in an attack on September 11, 2012, should be scrutinized.Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.) agreed,...
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NSA Revelations Hurt Collaboration With Hackers Who Now Feel Betrayed
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The U.S. government's efforts to recruit talented hackerscould suffer from the recent revelations about its vast domestic surveillance programs, as many private researchers...
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ASSAD: Syria Crisis Can Only Be Solved 'With Iron Fist'
Syria's crisis will only be solved by stamping out "terror", President Bashar al-Assad said, in reference to rebels fighting his regime.In a rare speech on Syrian state television, Assad also dismissed...
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Mexican Cartels Are Recruiting US Soldiers As Hitmen, And The Pay Is Good
Mexican cartels are looking to recruit U.S. soldiers to carry out contract killings.In April a leaked FBI confidential bulletin revealed that the Los Zetas cartel, which was founded by former elite...
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CONVICTED US SPY: Snowden Is Discrediting His Leaks By Finding 'Sanctuary In...
Christopher Boyce, co-author of the upcoming book The Falcon and The Snowman: American Sons, spent 25 years in federal prison for providing U.S. spy satellite secrets to the Soviet Union.The former...
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Ancient Feathered Shield And Supernatural Murals Discovered In Peruvian Temple
Hidden in a sealed part of an ancient Peruvian temple, archaeologists have discovered a feathered shield dating back around 1,300 years.Made by the Moche people, the rare artifact was found face down...
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