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- TIA
- "NSA's
Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data."
... "Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism
program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to
search for suspicious patterns [the TIA program: the Total Information
Awareness program]. Opponents called it too broad an intrusion on Americans'
privacy, even after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." ... "But the data-sifting
effort didn't disappear. The National Security Agency, once confined to
foreign surveillance, has been building essentially the same system." ...
"The central role the NSA has come to occupy in domestic intelligence gathering
has never been publicly disclosed. But an inquiry reveals that its efforts
have evolved to reach more broadly into data about people's communications,
travel and finances in the U.S. than the domestic surveillance programs
brought to light since the 2001 terrorist attacks." ... "Congress now is
hotly debating domestic spying powers under the main law governing U.S.
surveillance aimed at foreign threats. An expansion of those powers expired
last month and awaits renewal, which could be voted on in the House of
Representatives this week. The biggest point of contention over the law,
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is whether telecommunications
and other companies should be made immune from liability for assisting
government surveillance." ... "Largely missing from the public discussion
is the role of the highly secretive NSA in analyzing that data, collected
through little-known arrangements that can blur the lines between domestic
and foreign intelligence gathering." ... "According to current and former
intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records
of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card
transactions, travel and telephone records. The NSA receives this so-called
"transactional" data from other agencies or private companies, and its
sophisticated software programs analyze the various transactions for suspicious
patterns. Then they spit out leads to be explored by counterterrorism programs
across the U.S. government, such as the NSA's own Terrorist Surveillance
Program, formed to intercept phone calls and emails between the U.S. and
overseas without a judge's approval when a link to al Qaeda is suspected."
... "The NSA's enterprise involves a cluster of powerful intelligence-gathering
programs, all of which sparked civil-liberties complaints when they came
to light. They include a Federal Bureau of Investigation program to track
telecommunications data once known as Carnivore, now called the Digital
Collection System, and a U.S. arrangement with the world's main international
banking clearinghouse to track money movements." ... "The effort also ties
into data from an ad-hoc collection of so-called "black programs" whose
existence is undisclosed, the current and former officials say." ... "Two
current officials also said the NSA's current combination of programs now
largely mirrors the former TIA [Total Information Awareness] project. But
the NSA offers less privacy protection." -By Siobhan
Gorman -WSJ.com
Karl
Rove
- Political
- Government
- Computer
- E-Mails
- Communications
- Archives
- Laws
- Presidential
Records Act Law - Hatch
Act Law - 
History
- Data
- Censorship
- Investigation
- "GOP
Halts Effort to Retrieve White House E-Mails." ...
"After promising last year to search its computers for tens of thousands
of e-mails sent by [Republican President Bush] White House officials, the
Republican National Committee has informed a House committee that it no
longer plans to retrieve the communications by restoring computer backup
tapes, the panel's chairman said yesterday." ... "The move increases the
likelihood that an untold number of RNC [RNC=Republican National Committee=Republican
Party] e-mails dealing with official White House business during the first
term of the Bush administration -- including many sent or received by former
[Republican President Bush] presidential adviser Karl Rove -- will never
be recovered, said House Democrats and public records advocates." ... "Administration
officials have acknowledged that Rove and many other White House officials
routinely used RNC accounts for government business, despite rules [Laws:
the Presidential Records Act Law and the Hatch Act Law] requiring that
they conduct such business through official communications channels. The
RNC deleted all e-mails until 2004, when it exempted White House officials
from its e-mail purging policy." ... "About 80 White House aides used RNC
accounts for official government business, committee staff members said.
Rove, for example, sent or received 140,000 e-mails on RNC servers from
2002 to 2007, and more than half involved official ".gov" accounts, the
panel has said." ... "The RNC dispute is part of a broader debate over
whether the Bush administration has complied with long-standing statutory
requirements to preserve official White House records -- including those
reflecting potentially sensitive policy discussions -- for history and
in case of future legal demands." ... "The committee is investigating allegations
that vast stores of official Bush administration e-mails have also gone
missing from the White House, which scrapped a [former Democratic President]
Clinton-era archiving system and has struggled with data retention problems."
-By Dan Eggen -WashingtonPost
Dick
Cheney
- Political
- Terrorism
- Eavesdropping
- Phone
Calls - Electronic
- E-Mails
- Corporate
- Government
- Intelligence
- Law
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Nevada
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Vermont
- "Bush
May Win on Eavesdropping by Evoking Terror Fears (Update2)."
... "[Republican] President George W. Bush, his popularity at low ebb,
may yet score another legislative victory by evoking fears of a new terrorist
attack to win stronger powers to conduct electronic eavesdropping." ...
"The Democratic-controlled Senate yesterday approved 68-29 a bill giving
the president expanded authority to intercept phone calls and e-mails of
suspected terrorists. The measure also shields phone companies from lawsuits
for helping Bush eavesdrop on suspected terrorists without court warrants
after the Sept. [September] 11 attacks." ... "Nineteen Democrats voted
with Republicans for the legislation that protects companies such as AT&T
Inc. [Incorporated] and Sprint Nextel Corp [Corporation]. from privacy
lawsuits seeking billions of dollars in damages. [Nevada Democratic Senator
and] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid acknowledged that ``holding all
the Democrats together on this'' wasn't ``doable.''" ... "Bush renewed
his demand today for Congress to complete action on the measure promptly.
``Our intelligence professionals must be able to find out who the terrorists
are talking to,'' he said at the White House. ``Their goal is to bring
destruction to our shores that would make Sept. 11 pale by comparison.''"
... "The House version of the legislation eliminates legal protection for
the phone companies, putting it at odds with the Senate. The two houses
must now iron out their differences before sending the measure to Bush."
... "The current law authorizing electronic surveillance expires this weekend,
and House Democrats said they will vote today on a 21-day extension to
allow more time to consider the long-term legislation. Bush said today
that any further delay is unacceptable; and his spokeswoman, Dana Perino,
told reporters the president would veto any temporary extension." ... "Reid
accused Bush of trying to ``bully'' Congress into passing permanent legislation
and said the final bill ``will not be what the president wants.'' He said
if the current law lapses, it will be ``the fault of Bush'' and [Republican]
Vice President Dick Cheney." ... "[Vermont Democratic Senator and] Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont said yesterday the
[Republican President Bush] administration used ``fear and intimidation''
to win enactment of the current temporary law, which lets Bush conduct
electronic surveillance without a court warrant." -By
James Rowley -Bloomberg
Microsoft
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Engine - Internet
- US
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European
Union - "Microsoft
wants to purchase Yahoo: Microsoft has offered to
buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash
and shares." ... "The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, is
62% above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday." ... "Yahoo cut its
revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an
additional $300m this year trying to revive the company." ... "It has been
struggling in recent years to compete with Google, which has also been
a competitor to Microsoft." ... "If Yahoo accepted the offer, competition
authorities both in the US and the European Union would be likely to investigate
the tie-up." ... "Yahoo chief executive, Jerry Yang, announced on Tuesday
that he intended to lay off 1,000 staff as part of a restructuring plan."
... "Yahoo shares have fallen 46% since reaching a year-high of $34.08
in October. On Friday they closed almost 48% higher."
-BBC/News
Israel
- Electronic
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Cars
- Manufacturing
- Transportation
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Technology
- Company
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Environmental
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Health
- Politics
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California
- US
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Japan
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France
- "Israel
Looks to Electric Cars." ... "The Israeli government
announced a major initiative to push the nation's drivers toward electric
cars on Monday, a move meant to both lessen dependence on foreign oil and
address the environmental and health hazards of gas-burning vehicles."
... "It aligns policy makers and a major car company with an outfit prepared
to build hundreds of thousands of electric charging stations across the
country. In an interview with TIME, Israeli President Shimon Peres called
the project, "an experimental lab, a pilot project, before it's applied
to other, bigger industrialized nations."" ... "Automaker Renault-Nissan
will manufacture the cars and Better Place, a California start-up founded
by former SAP executive Shai Agassi, will build the infrastructure, which
may eventually consist of 500,000 charging points and up to 200 battery-exchange
stations." ... "The [Renault-Nissan] Japanese-French auto alliance has
separately said that it will manufacture a hybrid by 2010 and an all-electric
car by 2012." ... "Agassi figures that if he adds electrical outlets to
at least 500,000 of Israel's three to four million parking spots, people
will feel like they can charge their cars whenever they need to." ... "For
longer drives, customers will be able to pull into a battery-swap station
and get a fresh battery." -By Barbara Kiviat with
contributions by Tim McGirk
-TIME.com
Dick
Cheney
- Government
- Electronic
- E-Mail
- History
- Censorship
- Politics
- Presidential
Records Act - Archives
- Law
- Calif
- "White
House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone." ... "The
[Republican President Bush] White House possesses no archived e-mail messages
for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the
President and the Office of the Vice President [Dick Cheney], for hundreds
of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal
White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional Democrat."
... "The 2005 study -- whose credibility the White House attacked this
week -- identified 473 separate days in which no electronic messages were
stored for one or more White House offices, said House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee Chairman [California Democratic Representative] Henry
A. Waxman (D-Calif.)." ... "Waxman said he decided to release the summary
after White House spokesman Tony Fratto said yesterday that there is "no
evidence" that any White House e-mails from those years are missing. Fratto's
assertion "seems to be an unsubstantiated statement that has no relation
to the facts they have shared with us," Waxman said." ... "The competing
claims were the latest salvos in an escalating dispute over whether the
[Republican President] Bush administration has complied with long-standing
statutory requirements to preserve official White House records -- including
those reflecting potentially sensitive policy discussions -- for history
and in case of any future legal demands." ... "The White House is required
by law to preserve e-mails considered presidential or federal records,
and it is the target of several lawsuits seeking information about missing
data and efforts to preserve electronic communications." (1, 2)
-By Dan Eggen and Elizabeth Williamson
-WashingtonPost
Government
- Computer
- E-Mail
- Archives
- Law
- Politics
- US
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Iraq
- Military
- Intelligence
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Videotapes
- Presidential
Records Act - "White
House Tape Recycling May Have Erased Controversial E-Mails."
... "The [Republican President Bush] White House has acknowledged in a
new court filing that it routinely recycled computer backup tapes containing
its e-mail records until October 2003, a practice that could mean that
many electronic messages from the first two years of the [Republican President]
Bush administration are lost forever." ... "The disclosure raises the possibility
that the White House effectively erased e-mail related to some of the biggest
controversies of the Bush administration, including the leak of a CIA [Central
Intelligence Agency] officer's name, the start of the Iraq war and the
CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes." ... "The backups are meant
to preserve records in case of a disaster. They also serve a role in ensuring
that federal record-keeping laws are met, according to administration officials
and records management experts. Two separate statutes require the White
House to preserve federal or presidential records." ... "In their lawsuit,
the two advocacy groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
and the National Security Archive, allege that millions of e-mail messages
are missing from White House servers between 2003 and 2005." -By
Dan Eggen -WashingtonPost
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