Senior Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications carried on portions of networks operated by AT&T and other Internet service providers, a practice that might otherwise be illegal under federal wiretapping laws.

The secret legal authorization from the Justice Department originally applied to a cybersecurity pilot project in which the military monitored defense contractors‘ Internet links. Since then, however, the program has been expanded by President Obama to cover all critical infrastructure sectors including energy, healthcare, and finance starting June 12.

„The Justice Department is helping private companies evade federal wiretap laws,“ said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which obtained over 1,000 pages of internal government documents and provided them to CNET this week. „Alarm bells should be going off.“

Dr Ken Hayworth, a neuroscientist who maps fruit fly brains by day and advocates for the independent Brain Preservation Foundation by night, says such a process is the final frontier in breaking the barrier between man and machine. „Mind uploading technology is just breaking the barrier,“ he says.

Rebels used Otaiba for eight months as their main supply route to Damascus for weapons brought in from the Jordanian border, where Saudi Arabia and other private donors are believed to be sending in arms.

News reports purporting to describe what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told US interrogators should, for several reasons, be taken with a huge grain of salt. The sources for this information are anonymous, they work for the US government, the statements were obtained with no lawyer present and no Miranda warnings given, and Tsarnaev is „grievously wounded“, presumably quite medicated, and barely able to speak.

As the Senate holds its first-ever public hearing on drones and targeted killings, we turn the second part of our interview with Jeremy Scahill, author of the new book, „Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield.“ Scahill charts the expanding covert wars operated by the CIA and JSOC, the Joint Special Operations Command, in countries from Somalia to Pakistan.

Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey
as he chases down the hidden truth behind America’s
expanding covert wars.

Neue internationale Mission ab 2015

Die deutsche Bereitschaft zur Beteiligung an der neuen internationalen Mission ist an Voraussetzungen geknüpft. Dazu gehören: eine formelle Einladung der afghanischen Regierung; eine Resolution des Sicherheitsrats der Vereinten Nationen; ein zwischen Afghanistan und Deutschland vereinbartes Truppenstatut; eine Sicherheitslage, die den Einsatz zulässt und entsprechende Beiträge der Verbündeten in den anderen Landesteilen.

Nach Informationen der Bild-Zeitung vom 17. April 2013 haben im letzten Jahr 91 Offiziere der Bundes­wehr von ihrem Grund­recht auf Kriegs­dienst­verweigerung (KDV) Gebrauch gemacht und einen ent­sprechenden Antrag gestellt.

Some countries refuse to hand over the Saudi prisoners incarcerated in their prisons because they claim they have not signed any security agreements with the Kingdom, Abdulrahman Al-Juraisi said.