CIA admits destroying interrogation tapes
USSA - The CIA has admitted destroying video recordings of the interrogation of terrorist suspects. The US intelligence agency said the tapes were destroyed to protect the identities of undercover CIA agents and because they were no longer relevant to the investigations. The New York Times reported the destruction of the tapes on Thursday and said the recordings showed interrogation techniques being used which human rights organisations regard as torture. The CIA describes the interrogation techniques used as "lawful, safe and effective". The tapes, which date from 2002, showed the interrogation of a number of terrorist suspects, including alleged al-Qaeda commander Abu Zubaydah. They were destroyed in 2005, the year in which the CIA came under fire for running secret detention cent...    Continue

Internet Soon to be 'Full,' Gov Solution: More tax
USSA - "Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, a...    Continue

Ed Brown delivered to federal prison in Ohio
New Hampshire - A convicted New Hampshire tax evader is now at his new home -- a federal prison in Ohio. Stephen Monier, the U.S. Marshal for New Hampshire, says Ed Brown of Plainfield arrived earl...    Continue

A Fed panic and a bailout of US bank by world
USSA - Manias, panics, and crashes are the consequence of an economic environment that cultivates cupidity, chicanery, and rapaciousness rather than a devout belief in the Golden Rule." --Peter L. Ber...    Continue

Feds probe Blackwater links to arms smuggling
BAGHDAD - - Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and e...    Continue

'Virtual fence' in Arizona remains unworkable
TUCSON - 'Virtual fence' in Arizona remains unworkable because of glitch - Because of a continuing software glitch, the first high-tech "virtual fence" at the nation's borders remains unused, three m...    Continue

Defense, DHS fail audits
Washington,DC - Disorganized records leave big-budget agencies vulnerable to waste, fraud Ten years after Congress ordered federal agencies to have outside auditors review their books, neither t...    Continue

Chinese military hacked into Pentagon
Washington - The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­officials. The Pentagon acknowle...    Continue

Lawmakers Facing Ethics Questions
SENATE - Members of Congress under an ethics cloud: SENATE - Larry Craig, R-Idaho, arrested on June 11 in a Minneapolis airport men's room after an undercover officer observed conduct that...    Continue

FBI surveillance: It's come a long way
WASHINGTON - --The FBI disclosed new details about its secretive technology for tracing telephone calls and recording conversations during criminal, terrorism and espionage investigations, custo...    Continue