By Dan Eggen, Washington Post In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a “special job” by the National Security Agency, according to a former AT&T technician. It was fed by fiber-optic cables that siphoned copies of e-mails and other online traffic from…
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Peter Beaumont in Baghdad, The UK Observer …The anecdotal evidence on the ground confirms what others – prominent among them General Colin Powell, the former US Secretary of State – have been insisting for months now: that the US army is ‘about broken’. Only a third of the regular army’s brigades now qualify as combat-ready….
By Ewen MacAskill and Tom Kington, Guardian UK US loss of control over the flood of weapons into Iraq was highlighted again yesterday when it emerged that Italian anti-Mafia investigators had uncovered an alleged shipment of 105,000 rifles of which the American high command was unaware. The Italian team, in an investigation codenamed Operation Parabellum,…
By Josh Bresnahan, The Politico Karl Rove may be leaving the White House, but Democrats on Capitol Hill still want to see him testify on at least one issue ““ the firing last year of nine U.S. attorneys ““ and possibly more. Rove was subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary Committee last month to testify on…
