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Uzbek national indicted in US for terrorism

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 19, 2013 11 Comments

Highlights Growing Threat of Online Recruitment

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Financial Times in Group’s Latest Attack on News Outlets

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 17, 2013 2 Comments

Another news organization has fallen victim to the group of hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army. The Financial Times was hacked Friday, according to a notice posted by the outlet. The Financial Times has become the latest news outlet to be hacked by supporters...

Eric Holder recused himself from AP phone subpoena issuance, and from investigation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 16 Comments

Eric Holder just ended a press conference. As previously reported by Fox News: Attorney General Eric Holder is recusing himself from the investigation into leaks made to The Associated Press, Fox News has learned. Also, as CNN reported, Holder previously had recused himself from consideration...

How do you ask a journalist to be the last journalist to lose credibility defending Obama?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2013 42 Comments

Obama DOJ secretly grabs AP phone records -- We are all Tea Partiers now.

IRS anti-Tea Party scandal gets real — senior IRS officials aware of targeting (Update – Chief Counsel knew and targets expanded to groups “educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 59 Comments

This is getting real. Yesterday it was just some “low level” employees involved. Now AP is reporting that senior IRS officials were aware of the targeting, via AP, IRS watchdog: Senior IRS officials knew in 2011 tea parties’ tax-exempt status being targeted (h/t @GabrielMalor): WASHINGTON...

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/10/2013 – Newseum honors Terror TV

Posted by David Gerstman on May 10, 2013 2 Comments

1) When is news not really news? The Newseum – a museum devoted to the news business – recently held an event to honor journalists killed in the line of duty. Included in that honor members of Hamas who were killed by Israel this past...

Syrian Electronic Army hack of E!Online Twitter account nothing to laugh about

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 05, 2013 6 Comments

Why E!Online? The latest hacking incident on Twitter could be used to spread malicious code in links

Hacking the News: Information Warfare in the Age of Twitter

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 01, 2013 4 Comments

The group of pro-Assad hackers calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Guardian news outlet over the weekend, marking the latest in a string of cyberattacks from the same organization. The incident emphasizes the potential threat such attacks could pose if executed for goals...

Boston Bombings 2 Weeks Later – What We Do and Still Don’t Know

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 29, 2013 8 Comments

Previously, we brought you reports on the Boston Marathon bombings investigation and details into the lives of the suspects, first in The Lives of the Boston Bombers: What We Do and Don’t Know and then in a follow-up, New Developments in the Boston Marathon Bombings...

New Developments in the Boston Marathon Bombings Case

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 26, 2013 22 Comments

There have been several new developments today in the Boston bombings case. Authorities are searching a landfill for a laptop believed to be tied to the Boston Marathon bombers, according to CNN. Information from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev himself, plus other leads, spurred authorities to look through...

Boston Marathon suspect manhunt underway – ongoing updates

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 19, 2013 14 Comments

UPDATE 1:30 pm EST: The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is at the New Jersey home of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber’s sister. Authorities say that she has been cooperative and that there are no reports that she was involved in any of...

Shootout with Boston Marathon Suspects — One dead, one on loose — developing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2013 22 Comments

Listen to BOSTON POLICE SCANNER LIVE. Suspect #1 in black cap dead. Died in same hospital still caring for bombing victims. Suspects believed to be from abroad, foreign trained. “We believe this man to be a terrorist, someone who came here to kill people.” Tied...

Looking Back on Our Future

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 13, 2013 5 Comments

My son just earned his Space Exploration Merit Badge in Boy Scouts. So, we were very interested to learn about plans to rope-an-asteroid for closer study: The plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing...

First they came for the language

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 11, 2013 35 Comments

Language is destiny, and we have lost the language

Update — #OpIsrael hacker war mostly failing

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 07, 2013 10 Comments

Claims of widespread damage are bluster so far

The language police win again: AP bans term “Islamist” (Update: List of Muslim leaders who already have violated AP style guide)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 17 Comments

The language police are getting crazy. There now no longer are Illegal Immigrants. And as of today at AP, there are no Islamists. We use the term Islamist here to distinguish the fundamentalists and radicals from the non-radicals. The Muslim Brotherhood is Islamist. Hamas is...

The good news: 7 Saudi men spared death by firing squad and crucifixion

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2013 12 Comments

The bad news? Saudi Arabia beheads 7 men after appeals rejected: Seven Saudi men convicted of theft, looting and armed robbery were beheaded on Wednesday, according to the country’s official news agency, more than a week after their families and rights group appealed to the...

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