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		<title>U.S. Intelligence Cleared to Assassinate Americans Without Trial</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13590</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difference between past eras and now is that a person who&#8217;s high up the kill chain is publicly admitting that the U.S. regime has given itself the power to murders its own citizens.
Via: ABC News:
The director of national intelligence affirmed rather bluntly today that the U.S. intelligence community has authority to target American citizens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Intelligence Officials Asked State Department to NOT Revoke Crotch Bomber&#8217;s Visa</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13574</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13574#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Detroit News:
The State Department didn&#8217;t revoke the visa of foiled terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because federal counterterrorism officials had begged off revocation, a top State Department official revealed Wednesday.
Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Abdulmutallab&#8217;s visa wasn&#8217;t taken away because intelligence officials asked his agency not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Wants Records Kept of Web Sites Visited *Yawn*</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13564</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13564#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Covert Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dictatorship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Police State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m posting this to let those of you (who are submitting this) know that I don&#8217;t understand why you find it noteworthy.
With all the posts I&#8217;ve done on network surveillance, I&#8217;m getting story submissions about retention of URLs?
Guys, splash some cold water on your faces, break out the smelling salts, wake up.
It might be that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOOGLE NOW WORKING WITH NSA</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13499</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Washington Post:
The world&#8217;s largest Internet search company and the world&#8217;s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Doing &#8216;Scientific Research&#8217; to Boost Interrogations</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13495</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atrocities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: AFP:
An elite US interrogation unit will conduct &#8220;scientific research&#8221; to find better ways of questioning top suspected terrorists, US intelligence director Dennis Blair said Wednesday.
&#8220;It is going to do scientific research on that long-neglected area,&#8221; Blair told the House Intelligence Committee, without elaborating on the nature of the techniques being tested.
A spokesman for Blair, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon Black Budget Sees Year Over Year Record Funding; Tops $56 Billion</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13460</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13460#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More Change.
Via: Wired:
The Defense Department just released its king-sized, $708 billion budget for the next fiscal year. Much of the proposed spending is fairly detailed — noting exactly how many helicopters the Pentagon plans to buy and how many troops it plans on playing. But about $56 billion goes simply to “classified programs,” or to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIA Officers Working for Private Corporations</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13441</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13441#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related: They Made a Killing: The Use of Knowledge of Covert Operations in the Stock Market
Via: Politico:
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airstrip Built at Zimbabwe Diamond Field</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13428</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13428#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Telegraph:
A secret airstrip is being built in a diamond field illegally seized by the Zimbabwean army 14 months ago which would enable clandestine weapons shipments.
Diplomats and analysts believe that the mile-long runway is intended for arms shipments, probably from China, for which troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe would pay on the spot with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Citizens Targeted for Assassination by the Joint Special Operations Command</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13389</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13389#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Washington Post:
U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional al-Qaeda affiliate, according to senior administration officials.
The operations, approved by President Obama and begun six weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Charged in Phone Scheme at Senator Landrieu&#8217;s Office</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13333</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13333#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: USA Today:
The four men accused of trying to tamper with Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu&#8217;s office phones share a common experience as young ideologues writing for conservative publications.
Federal authorities said two of the men posed as telephone workers wearing hard hats, tool belts and flourescent vests when they walked into the senator&#8217;s office inside a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Navy Veteran Arrested With Heavy Arsenal; Also Found Was &#8220;Middle Eastern Red and White Traditional Headdress&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13321</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13321#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Star-Ledger:
Somerset County investigators seized a cache of weapons including a grenade launcher and hundreds of rounds of ammunition today from the Branchburg motel room of a Virginia man, who also had maps of a U.S. military facility and an out-of-state civilian community.
Lloyd Woodson, 43, whose last known address was Reston, Va., today faces multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Spas to Banks, Mexico Economy Rides on Drugs</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13317</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13317#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In other news: SEC Mulled National Security Status for AIG Details
Via: Reuters:
Mexico probably made more money in 2009 moving drugs than it did exporting oil, its single biggest legitimate foreign currency earner.
From the white Caribbean beaches of Cancun to violent towns on the U.S. border and the beauty parlors of Mexico City&#8217;s wealthy suburbs, drug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Mulled National Security Status for AIG Details</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13281</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13281#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Reuters:
U.S. securities regulators originally treated the New York Federal Reserve&#8217;s bid to keep secret many of the details of the American International Group bailout like a request to protect matters of national security, according to emails obtained by Reuters.
The request to keep the details secret were made by the New York Federal Reserve &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Kelly Post Mortem to be Kept Secret for 70 Years</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13261</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13261#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assassination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but it seems to be an exclusive at the moment.
Via: Daily Mail:
Vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly will be kept under wraps for up to 70 years.
In a draconian – and highly unusual – order, Lord Hutton, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court Rules That Mass Surveillance of Americans is Immune From Judicial Review</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13250</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13250#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: EFF:
A federal judge has dismissed Jewel v. NSA, a case from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of AT&#038;T customers challenging the National Security Agency&#8217;s mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans&#8217; phone calls and emails.
&#8220;We&#8217;re deeply disappointed in the judge&#8217;s ruling,&#8221; said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. &#8220;This ruling robs innocent telecom [...]]]></description>
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