Feds Worry About July 4 Fireworks Bombs
When police officers around the country meet for their morning musters over the next week, many of them will likely be reminded by supervisors that fireworks – so popular around the Fourth of July – can be used to build bombs. “Recent incidents in the… Read More »
EmailReporter’s Notebook: Remembering Fateful SEAL Rescue Operation
The hole in the sod along the bank of the Kunar River was small, only big enough to fit a foot-long green ammunition box affixed with the flag of Afghanistan and containing a small wood urn and a two-inch sliver of granite in a blue… Read More »
Ambassador Chris Stevens’ Benghazi Diary Published
The diary in which Ambassador Chris Stevens recorded the days leading up to his death in Benghazi, Libya has been published online, revealing that in his last entry, the ambassador scrawled, “Never-ending security threats…” The seven-page diary, published with redactions today on the special operations… Read More »
Officials: How Edward Snowden Could Hurt the U.S.
PIERRE THOMAS (@PierreTABC), MIKE LEVINE (@mlevinereports), JACK DATE (@jackdate), LUIS MARTINEZ (@LMartinezABC) and JACK CLOHERTY (@jjclo) report: As the U.S. intelligence community struggles to complete a damage assessment over the secret information allegedly stolen by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, sources told ABC News there is… Read More »
Snowden’s Last Hours in Hong Kong, How He Decided to Leave
HONG KONG — Last Friday Edward Snowden wanted one thing from the Hong Kong government. It was crunch time and he needed to know where he stood. In a wide-ranging interview with ABC News, Snowden’s attorney, Albert Ho, described his client’s request. Snowden knew if… Read More »
The NSA’s Rules for Accidentally Spying on You: Report
New secret documents published online today lay out the ground rules for the shadowy National Security Agency when it comes to “inadvertently” spying on Americans, showing the U.S. government can use information it accidentally collects about its own citizens without a warrant. Published by the… Read More »
Defense Report Omits Panetta’s SEAL Team 6 Disclosure
The final Defense Department watchdog report on the military’s cooperation with the makers of film “Zero Dark Thirty” largely clears the department of wrongdoing but leaves out two instances in which, according to a previous version of the report, then-CIA chief Leon Panetta and a… Read More »
Snowden’s CIA Drunk Driving Claim Questioned
The Swiss government has formally asked the U.S. for “clarification” on a claim from alleged NSA leaker Edward Snowden that CIA agents in Geneva pushed a banker to drink and drive as part of a dangerous recruitment ploy. Snowden, the man who claims to have… Read More »
In Their Own Words: Alleged NSA Leaker a Hero or a Traitor?
Edward Snowden, a private contractor for the National Security Agency, said he leaked classified documents from the super secret spy agency to protest its “horrifying” surveillance capabilities. While he said he had no intention of hiding — despite running to Hong Kong — Snowden also… Read More »
Edward Snowden’s Girlfriend ‘Lost at Sea’
A blog purportedly belonging to the girlfriend of the man who left their home in America to leak classified National Security Agency documents to two major newspapers said Monday that “all [she] feels is alone.” “For those of you that know me without my super… Read More »
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