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Wikileaks CIA Docs Suggest Gov. Hides Knowledge of Security Vulnerabilities from Tech Industry

The CIA and NSA are engaged in the same kind of hacking that politicians and the media excoriate the Russians for doing, says journalist Marcy Wheeler.

March 9, 2017
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Chinese Telecom Giant Pays DoJ $892 Million Fine for Practices Trump Wants Legal For U.S. Firms

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Bill Black says Trump wants to gut the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to enable U.S. firms to engage in corruption.

March 9, 2017
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'Liberating' Iraqi Cities Often Reduces Them to Ghost Towns

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Many ISIS fighters retreated from Mosul prior to the current military campaign, and therefore the existence of organization is not threatened by the ongoing campaign, says Sabah Alnasseri.

March 9, 2017
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Eve Ensler & Christine Schuler Deschryver on the Predatory Mindset of President Trump

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When President Trump signed his first executive order in January to temporarily ban refugees and people from seven majority-Muslim nations, he said it was needed, in part, to protect women.…

March 8, 2017
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Daggers Drawn: Conservatives Plot Ways to Throttle Agency Power

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Last Thursday, towards the end of The Time for Regulatory Reform in Congress, a four-hour conference on Capitol Hill, Chuck Gordon, a retired federal lawyer, raised his hand to ask a question.

March 8, 2017
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6 Scariest Finds from the WikiLeaks CIA Dump

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Today’s WikiLeaks CIA data dump, ominously labelled “Year Zero,” is only the first part in a series of releases dubbed “Vault 7.” This is already the largest data dump of…