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...terrorism case files uploaded into the Automated Case Support System, a massive database widely used by FBI personnel. The move was meant to speed urgent counterterrorism investigations. But the unintentional effect, the commission found, was to place in general bureau circulation a large amount of sensitive data collected by covert electronic listening devices and searches under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Not only did this make the data more accessible to potential FBI turncoats, but failing to flag the data as especially sensitive also opened the possibility that agents in far-flung venues might inadvertently disclose bits and pieces...
Movie studios love a good fight, and a bad one too. But the Oscar battles have become trench warfare and dirty tricks. Consider the tactics: covert ops, propaganda sorties, whispered slurs and innuendo to members of the media, enough bile to fuel a Senate campaign. And lots of money. By some estimates, $15 million or more for the Beautiful Mind Oscar push, or about $2,600 each for the 5,739 voting Academy members...
...movie’s satirical slant looks to expose the ruthlessness of a media that is not afraid to alter reality for good ratings; news crews have no qualms about interfering in covert police assignments in the movie...
...will. In response, more FBI agents are working overseas than ever before. The Patriot Act passed in October gives the CIA greater access to law-enforcement information and allows the nsa to obtain warrants more easily for domestic wiretaps. In Afghanistan, the CIA has unleashed its 150-man covert paramilitary force to conduct sabotage, collect intelligence and train Northern Alliance guerrillas...
Schuller's testimony is expected to back up allegations made by Jean-Claude Méry, a real-estate promoter and ex-rpr official, in a videotaped confession recorded before his death from cancer in 1999. As a covert funding organizer, Méry explained how - while Chirac was mayor of Paris - tenders for public works contracts in the city were systematically rigged in return for kickbacks. "We only worked on the orders of Mr. Chirac," said Méry, who described handing over $665,000 in cash in Chirac's presence when he was Prime Minister...