Intelligence community heightens security measures following Washington Post ‘Top Secret America’ story The Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent a memo late last week to contractors warning them about the Washington Post’s article on the growth of top-secret agencies and contracting activity. The undated, unsigned memo, which was leaked to numerous media outlets,…
Brother follows brother as Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarch. And so it may well continue, but watch for the tensions within that very large royal family Jul 15th 2010 | Cairo
Last year, we told you about a conceptual treehouse in Sweden that looked like a Robert Morris sculpture screwed onto a tree trunk — that or a scene from Predator. It’s the kind of quixotic idea you always hear about in the design world, but because of money or politics or sheer technical impossibility, it…
– Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist who claimed to have been kidnapped by the U.S. and returned to the Islamic Republic to a hero’s welcome today, was handed more than $5 million by the CIA to provide intelligence on the regime’s atomic program, according to intelligence officials interviewed by The Washington Post. The paper…
Hezbollah readying for urban war in southern Lebanon IDF aerial photo marking alleged Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon, released on July 7, 2010 Photo by: IDF Israel’s military on Wednesday offered evidence of what it says is a growing threat from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, using aerial images to highlight the militants group’s activities in…
Bouthaina Shaaban is political and media adviser at the Syrian Presidency, and former expatriates minister. She is also a writer and professor at Damascus University since 1985. She has a Doctorate in English Literature from Warwick University, London. She was the spokesperson for Syria. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. Despite…
Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010 09:15 ET The motive behind whistle-blower prosecutions By Glenn Greenwald One of the more flamboyant aspects of the Bradley Manning arrest was the claim that he had leaked to WikiLeaks 250,000 pages of “diplomatic cables.” Those were the documents which anonymous government officials pointed to when telling The Daily Beast‘s Philip Shenon that…
Charles in charge Tuesday July 6, 2010 | 12:07 by Ossian Ward in London | permalink Here in London a stunned silence greeted the surprise news that Charles Saatchi was to ‘donate’ his recently opened Saatchi Gallery and part of his collection to the British nation, perhaps as soon as 2012. The surprise came, not…