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INTERVIEW-Advice for Snowden from a man who knows: 'Always check six'
ReutersBy Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - Thomas Drake is one of the few people who understands from personal experience what the future may hold for Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former NSA contractor who exposed the U.S. government's top...Tags: Edward Snowden, FBI, The New York Times, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A list of other famous leakers in recent history
Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old American intelligence contractor, has revealed himself as the source who disclosed the U.S. government's secret phone and Internet surveillance programs. Some other famous leakers in recent history: DANIEL ELLSBERG A...Tags: The Washington Post, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), U.S. Army, FBI, Fort Meade (military base)
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Sikorsky Gets $435M Contract For Next Step Of Heavy-Lift Marine Helicopter
The Hartford CourantSikorsky Aircraft Corp. has won a $435 million contract to build four operational test helicopters for a program to replace an aging fleet of the Marine's heavy-lift transport helicopter. The Pentagon, in issuing the contract update Thursday, approved...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), United Technologies Corporation, Heavy Engineering
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Naval Academy football players investigated in alleged sexual assault
The U.S. Naval Academy is investigating allegations that three members of its football team sexually assaulted a female midshipman last year. “Naval Academy leadership is monitoring the progress of this investigation and evaluating the appropriate...Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Assault, Sex Crimes, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis
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Obama to press China's Xi to stop cyber attacks
WASHINGTON — In January 2010, when Google accused Chinese hackers of infiltrating its network to track emails of human rights activists, the Obama administration didn't disclose what U.S. diplomats in Beijing believed: China's Politburo had directed...
Tags: Washington, DC, WikiLeaks, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, White House
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Editorial: The Pentagon's clothing addiction
An old cartoon showed a building with a sign over the entrance: "Department of Redundancy Department." There are many things it makes sense for the federal government to do. The trouble arises when those in charge decide that anything worth doing is worth...
Tags: The Washington Post
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U.S. rebalance to Asia-Pacific gaining steam, Pentagon chief says
ReutersBy David Alexander SINGAPORE, June 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. military will devote more air power, ground troops and high-tech weaponry to the Asia-Pacific region as it moves ahead with a strategic rebalance, the U.S. defense chief said on Saturday in a...Tags: Leon Panetta, Iraq, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Singapore
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Three Naval Academy football players investigated in alleged sexual assault on female midshipman
The Navy is investigating the alleged sexual assault last year of a female midshipman at the Naval Academy by three members of the football team, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed Friday. The woman has told investigators she remembers little of the...
Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Leon Panetta, Ken Niumatalolo, Health and Safety at School, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Defense chief Chuck Hagel seeks to reassure Asia allies
SINGAPORE — Chuck Hagel emerged from combat in the Vietnam War with two Purple Hearts and "a sense of how important it would be for America to engage wisely in Asia," as he put it to top defense officials gathered here. Now, more than a year after...Tags: Leon Panetta, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Military, Wars and Interventions, Japan
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Fort Meade preparing for hundreds at Bradley Manning demonstration
Fort Meade officials plan to close the main gate of the Army base in Anne Arundel County on Saturday, but police said they didn't not have plans to limit traffic on surrounding roads during a mass demonstration for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. Officials...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Wars and Interventions, Maryland State Police, U.S. Army, Fort Meade (military base)
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Likely FBI nominee James Comey seen as levelheaded
WASHINGTON — Twenty years ago, James B. Comey was a young federal prosecutor in New York trying to put two Gambino brothers away for life. They were charged with murder, selling drugs, money laundering, racketeering — "the whole kitchen sink,"...
Tags: Chris Christie, Mutual Funds, Justice System, FBI, Court Preliminary
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Cyber threats pose 'stealthy, insidious' danger - U.S. defense chief
ReutersBy David Alexander ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT, May 31 (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Friday that cyber threats posed a "quiet, stealthy, insidious" danger to the United States and other nations, and called for "rules of the road"...Tags: International Organizations, Military Equipment, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Government, Barack Obama
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