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House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat, engaged in a small but cheesy bit of deception last week. She released a letter, which quickly found its way to the front page of the New York Times, that she had written on Oct. 11, 2001, to then National Security Agency director General Michael V. Hayden. In it she expressed concern that Hayden, who had briefed the House Intelligence Committee about the steps he was taking to track down al-Qaeda terrorists after the 9/11 attacks, was not acting with "specific presidential authorization." Hayden wrote her back that he was acting...
...soft drink giant agreed to the assessment in principle, but in a letter dated Dec. 16, 2005, Coca-Cola said that a legal impasse regarding a pending lawsuit against its Colombian bottling partners would prevent the company from selecting an auditor by the board’s Dec. 31 deadline...
...desire to ensure fair labor practices and a safe working environment in Colombia and sustainable environmental practices in India,” Timothy P. Slottow, Michigan’s executive vice-president and chief financial officer, and Peggy Norgren, the associate vice president for finance, wrote in a letter to Coca-Cola dated...
...photos (the other is in Tampere, Finland). Exhibits show how to create and hide coded messages, tell the story of celebrity spies such as master chef Julia Child and Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich, and offer a glimpse of espionage in biblical times. Donaldson saw items ranging from a 1777 letter by George Washington authorizing a network of spies in New York City to a latter-day camera so tiny that it is concealed in a button. "I grew up in the cold war, where we sat under our desks in school during drills and hoped that we wouldn...
...mail records, if these records are relevant to an ongoing terrorism or intelligence investigation. Requests for personal borrowing records must be authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose proceedings are secret. Internet and e-mail records, on the other hand, can be obtained with a National Security Letter (NSL) authorized by a senior FBI official. Criticism of these measures has focused on the lack of regular judicial review over these information requests and the “gag rule” said to bar recipients of such requests from ever speaking about them. Opponents of these provisions also...