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Election Meddling A Two-Way Street Long Traveled By US Government

Archives for 10 月 2017

During WWII, The Government Refused To Prosecute A Leaker For Fear Of Public Backlash

“I do not think this is a case that the public would ever understand… consequently, the whole case would become engulfed in questions of freedom of the press, censorship, etc.”

Kevin Gosztola
作者 Kevin Gosztola
Stanley Johnston, Chicago Tribune correspondent is pictured in Chicago, June 12, 1942. The only American newsman aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington, Johnston looks at an Associated Press WirePhoto transmission of a Navy picture showing the Lexington as it exploded during the battle of Coral Sea. (AP/Paul Cannon)

Newly published documents by the National Security Archive reveal why a grand jury refused to prosecute a Chicago Tribune reporter during World War II for a leak. Correspondent Stanley Johnston was accused of revealing the United States cracked a Japanese code, which alerted the military to Japanese war plans before the Battle of Midway. A

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White House Applauds Vote Removing Right To Sue Banks, Credit Card Companies

The banking industry had been lobbying hard to roll back the regulation from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Kevin Freking
作者 Kevin Freking
Damage to the front of the Bank of America building in downtown Oakland.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is welcoming a congressional measure killing the ability of millions of Americans to band together to sue bank or credit card companies to resolve financial disputes in a major win for Wall Street. The Senate narrowly voted late Tuesday night to nullify the rule, with Vice President Mike Pence casting the final

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China’s Launches Plan To Challenge The Petrodollar: The Petroyuan

The establishment of China’s petroyuan will allow countries to limit their dependency on the U.S. dollar, and to circumvent U.S. sanctions.

James Holbrooks
作者 James Holbrooks
In this picture taken March 15, 2012 show a Chinese woman poses for photos near a sculpture depicting the Chinese yuan note at an art district in Beijing, China. Premier Wen Jiabao, China's top economic official, says its state-owned banks are monopolies that must be broken up, acknowledging mounting economic and political pressure to reform an industry whose vast profits are fueling public anger. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Financial analysts are increasingly pointing out that China has some very grand plans when it comes to petroleum markets, and that if those plans succeed, the U.S. could see the dollar threatened as the top global currency. From CNBC on Tuesday: China is looking to make a major move against the dollar’s global dominance, and it may come as early

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Kaspersky Anti-Virus Software Caught Classified NSA Malware

Kaspersky’s anti-virus software automatically scraped powerful NSA digital surveillance tools off a computer in the United States.

Jason Ditz
作者 Jason Ditz
A sign above the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab in Moscow. On Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, Kaspersky Lab said it will open up its anti-virus software to outside review as it deals with security concerns. The company is making the move a month after the U.S. government barred agencies from using its software. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab has been increasingly vilified in the US for acquiring classified US government programs. This has led to a full ban on Kaspersky software on federal PCs, and several retails dropping the wildly popular program. Kaspersky Lab’s own internal investigation into the matter revealed that was indeed the case,

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A U.S. Soldier Died In Niger. What On Earth Are We Doing There?

When our soldiers kill and die in wars we don’t know about and can’t end, we’re not a democracy anymore.

Peter Certo
作者 Peter Certo
These images provided by the U.S. Army show, from left, Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, 35, of Puyallup, Wash.; Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, 39, of Springboro, Ohio; Sgt. La David Johnson of Miami Gardens, Fla.; and Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, 29, of Lyons, Ga. A senior U.S. defense official says the military suspects that American special forces were ambushed in Niger after someone in the village they visited told enemy fighters they were in the area. The Army Green Berets and about 30 Niger forces stopped in a village for an hour or two to get food and water after conducting an overnight reconnaissance mission. All four were killed in Niger, when a joint patrol of American and Niger forces was ambushed by militants believed linked to the Islamic State group. (U.S. Army via AP)

Opinion -- In our military-revering culture, it’s a strange thing for a president to start a war of words with the grieving families of slain soldiers. Strange, yes. But from Donald Trump’s campaign season feud with the parents of Humayun Khan, who died protecting fellow soldiers in Iraq, to his recent feud with the mourning widow of La David

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Sworn EPA Enemies Now One Step From Heading Key Agency Offices

“All four have condemned the very existence of the EPA and want to weaken it beyond recognition, threatening the EPA’s mission to protect our clean air and water.”

Jessica Corbett
作者 Jessica Corbett
William Wehrum appears before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to testify on his nomination as the assistant administrator for the Office of Air and Regulation at the Environmental Protection Agency on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Oct. 4, 2017.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Wednesday advanced the nominations of four potential assistant administrators for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), raising concerns among conservationists and Democratic lawmakers who worry the candidates' connections to various industries will further endanger regulations that

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