Monthly Archives: August 2008

Homeland Security Explores Ambitious Plan to Collect More Personal Data From Foreign Travelers

August 20, 2008
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The Department of Homeland Security is studying how best to implement a little-noticed congressional mandate to gather, search, and store biometric data from all foreign visitors leaving the country. The objective is to collect better data on foreigners who violate the law while in the country or who overstay their visas.

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How America Is Squandering Its Wealth and Power

August 19, 2008
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Andrew Bacevich is no fan of George W. Bush. The conservative historian and former military officer lost a son fighting in Iraq and has publicly called the administration’s foreign policy record one of “substantial, if almost malignant, achievement.”

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WTOP — In Georgia, war rages online too

August 17, 2008
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WTOP — In Georgia, war rages online too

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Cyber attacks in Georgia War

August 14, 2008
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Cyber attacks in Georgia War

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In Georgia, a Parallel War Rages Online

August 13, 2008
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Even before Russian tanks rolled across the Georgian border, the country was already under assault in cyberspace. The attacks, which involved sabotaging specific Georgian websites, began days before Russian warplanes launched.

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Death Watch in a Mill Town

August 5, 2008
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MILLINOCKET, MAINE-The name Millinocket comes from the Abenaki Indian expression for the “many islands,” a fitting description of the region near the geographic center of th e state. It was the thousands of acres of timberland and the rivers, on which logs could be floated, that attracted the paper makers a century ago. But...

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New Law Would Crack Down on Narco-Mariners

August 1, 2008
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The typical drug submarine begins its life in the jungle areas of Colombia. Often in areas of the country under the control of leftist rebels, drug smugglers may toil for more than a year creating the fiberglass and steel frame, retrofitting engine parts, and packing nearly every inch of cargo space inside the ersatz...

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