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Foxcom Wireless: This Israeli firm wanted a $3 million contract in 2002 to install cell-phone antennas in the House of Representatives...
...efforts within the government to identify leakers. The Justice Department is investigating who gave away the NSA secrets. While such probes rarely succeed, the department's new willingness to subpoen a reporters and their records could change that. And the CIA has a group of mostly retired officers on contract to read news stories that contain classified material and try to uncover their sources. This may be the toughest spook work. Over the years, the unit, nicknamed "the leak chasers" by some agency hands, has been able to finger only a few talkers. But it has an enthusiastic?and active?...
...Well, I had been doing it for two years, which is an eternity in blogtime. And I have a contract to write another book. It seemed like a good time to let someone else not wear the pants...
...contract suspensions drew praise from Ryan Bates, a Michigan senior and member of SOLE, but he added that the student coalition wants the suspensions to be permanent. Bates also said that the university should not resume business with Coca-Cola even if the company does agree to an audit...
Among other students, reaction to the contract suspensions was more subdued. Several students reached by telephone on Wednesday said that they were not yet aware of the university’s decision. Classes did not officially begin until yesterday, and the website of the student newspaper, the Michigan Daily, did not carry a report on the contract suspensions until early yesterday morning...