WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Justice Department has opened a probe into the leaking of classified information which revealed that President George W. Bush had authorized a secret government wiretap program, an official source said.
“We have opened an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information related to the NSA (National Security Agency),” said a [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2005 by pwyll
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MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family’s “honor” — a crime that shocked Pakistan.
The 40-year old laborer, speaking to The Associated Press in police detention as he was being shifted [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2005 by pwyll
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Great article called 13 things that do not make sense in New Scientist. Here’s my favorite thing that does not make sense:
OUR universe appears to be unfathomably uniform. Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other, and you’ll see that the microwave background radiation filling the cosmos is at the [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2005 by pwyll
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A fantastically cool blog, Notes from the Technology Underground. Go read it, we both know you’ve got some time on your hands.
Posted on December 28th, 2005 by pwyll
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Apart from the day The New York Times goes out of business — and the stellar work Paul Krugman’s column does twice a week helping people house-train their puppies — the newspaper has done the greatest thing it will ever do in its entire existence. (Calm down: No, the Times didn’t hold an intervention for [...]
Posted on December 23rd, 2005 by pwyll
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IT SEEMS like only yesterday that every high-minded politician, pundit and professional activist was in high dudgeon about the threat posed to national security by the revelation that Valerie Plame was a spook. For daring to reveal a CIA operative’s name — in wartime, no less! — they wanted someone frog-marched out of the White [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2005 by pwyll
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