Spy Software Gets a Second Life on Wall Street
A wave of companies with ties to the intelligence community is winning over the world of finance, with banks and hedge funds putting the firms' terrorist-tracking tools to work rooting out employee misconduct before it leads to fines or worse. “Both …
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How the CIA Came Out of the Closet
To be openly gay or lesbian, according to the twisted official logic of that bygone but not-distant era, was presumed to be so shameful that intelligence agency employees would do anything to keep their dark secret, including handing over classified …
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Backgrounder: Japan's deafening silence over NSA spying
The documents, dated from 2007 to 2009, include five NSA reports — four of which are marked top-secret — that provide intelligence on Japanese positions on international trade and climate change. WikiLeaks also posted an NSA list of 35 Japanese …
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A new age of espionage
In particular, electronic intelligence-gathering is based on trawling and sifting huge amounts of information. This includes private communications between people who have no connection to crime, terrorism or statecraft. Western spymasters insist that …
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