Our thoughts on why the FBI will never reveal its method to crack the iPhone, the Drone battle between the CIA & Pentagon & the creepy line Google crossed.

Plus a quick 2016 race update, a bunch of “cyber” news & a packed overtime segment!

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• WikiLeaks – Hillary Clinton Email Archive
• In Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State is in retreat on multiple fronts – The Washington Post
• In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA – LA Times
• Clinton email probe enters new phase as FBI interviews loom – LA Times
• How to Spot a Liar: The Case Against Amanda Carpenter
• Who is D.C. Shooting Suspect Larry Dawson? | Mediaite
• Glenn Beck Opens Show With Bizarre Joke: ‘We Were All Raped By Ted Cruz’ | Mediaite
• Russia’s Putin, Iran’s Rouhani agree to cooperate | IBP
• Pot purveyor has hard time opening in Burlington | KING5.com
• Kremlin ‘braced for expose on Vladimir Putin’s alleged secret fortune’ | Daily Mail Online
• Ryan moves stir White House talk | TheHill
• Book for first time details emails, allegations in Petraeus scandal – CNNPolitics.com
• ‘Burner’ phones could be made illegal under US law that would require personal details of anyone buying a new handset | News | Lifestyle | The Independent
• Huge fire engulfs 2 towers of residential skyscraper in UAE (VIDEO) — RT News
• SHOCK CLAIM: Bill Clinton snorted cocaine off my coffee table, former lover says | The American Mirror
• Bank Freezes Online Payment Over Dog’s ‘Terrorist-Sounding’ Name
• This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest | Jill Abramson | Opinion | The Guardian
• Police Radio Chatter Is Open To All Ears. But Should It Be? – NPR One
• 8 Things You Need To Know About Ted Cruz’s Sex Scandal – Conservative Outfitters
• Newspapers Gobble Each Other Up to Survive Digital Apocalypse – Bloomberg
• UNAOIL: THE COMPANY THAT BRIBED THE WORLD
• Surveillance Video Suggests ISIS Is Interested In Building A Dirty Bomb – NPR One
• Brussels Attacks Draw Attention To Concentration Syrian Radicals In Belgium – NPR One
• Hillary Clinton Turned a Stable, Developed Nation Into an ISIS Safe Haven. That’s the Real Benghazi Scandal
• Bernie Sanders wins big in Washington caucuses | The Seattle Times
• ‘War on Drugs’ has made no difference to number of users and actively harms public health, major study concludes | Science | News | The Independent
• Pentagon to try again at training Syrian rebels – LA Times
• Is Paul Ryan Prepared to Commit Political Suicide? | Vanity Fair
• CNN’s GOP Town Hall Is Most-Watched on Record | TVNewser
• Erdogan Uses Closed-Door Meeting to Blast Obama Administration | Foreign Policy
• Bill Boyarsky: The Clooneys’ Fundraisers for Hillary Clinton: A Tale of Two Economies – Bill Boyarsky – Truthdig
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz is loathed by Democrats, yet just got a head-scratching endorsement by Obama. Here are some guesses why – Salon.com

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Terror attacks in Brussels, major developments in Apple vs the DOJ, Western Tuesday’s elections & of course news from around the world. It’s a packed edition of Unfilter this week.

We cover the latest developments in the iPhone unlocking case, “Cyber Threats” & privacy threats. Some a few historical moments & our new Overtime segment.

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• Apple’s Brief Hits the FBI With a Withering Fact Check | WIRED
• Hackers trace ISIS Twitter accounts back to internet addresses linked to Department of Work and Pensions – Mirror Online
• A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case | WIRED
• WikiLeaks – Hillary Clinton Email Archive
• U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone – The New York Times
• How Saudi Arabia captured Washington – Vox
• Wikileaks Drops Hillary Email Bomb That Could End Her Campaign but FB Censored It
• Isis claims responsibility for Brussels attacks ‘in revenge for Belgium’s role fighting militants in Syria and Iraq’ | Europe | News | The Independent
• Experts see little chance of charges in Clinton email case – seattlepi.com
• IS Claims Brussels Attack, Threatens States Participating in Anti-IS Coalition | Jihadist News
• seattlepi on Twitter: “Bill Clinton slams “awful legacy of the last eight years” on Monday as Hillary comes to town https://t.co/Q9KXIoCsLo https://t.co/Rq3nk9DVDK”
• Russian court sentences Ukrainian pilot to 22 years in jail | Reuters
• Footage shows suspects in Brussels attack – CNN.com
• 14 dead, dozens injured in suicide attack at Brussels airport — RT News
• Bernie Sanders on Twitter: “Don’t know that I’d call President Obama’s 72 straight months of job growth an “awful legacy.” https://t.co/GUzlY6Wp4h”
• Belgians hunt ‘third man’ after Islamic State bombings | Reuters
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• Russia will cut defense budget by 5 percent in 2016, RIA reports | Reuters
• ISIS Claims Responsibility for Brussels Attacks – The New York Times
• What Happened at Each Location in the Brussels Attacks – The New York Times
• FBI enlists Israeli firm to unlock encrypted iPhone | VentureBeat | Security | by Reuters
• Top Nixon Aid: The War on Drugs Was Intended to Criminalize Black People and Hippies | HistoryBuff | The Future of History
• Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies – Vox
• WikiLeaks – Hillary Clinton Email Archive
• Anti-terrorism crackdowns may have spurred attackers, Belgian prosecutor says – The Washington Post
• LiveLeak.com – Syrian Activist Danny Dayem Admits he is a Terrorist Propagandist.Exposed!

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It’s a document extravaganza this week, with newly released Bin Laden files, ISIS informants & document treasure troves. We cover what surely must be a great week for the intelligence agencies.

Plus an update on the Apple vs DOJ case, the latest terrorism bogeyman, a 2016 race update, a high-note & even more!

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• North Korea fires two missiles into Sea of Japan, cuts cooperation with South — RT News
• Ignore him at your own peril: Why Bernie Sanders may defy all predictions to win the Democratic nomination – Firstpost
• Producer License Descriptions and Fees | Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board
• Barack Obama blames David Cameron for Libya descending into a “sh** show” – Mirror Online
• Germany says stolen Islamic State files ‘probably genuine’ – BBC News
• Obama Critical Of Cameron Over Libya Invasion
• Germany Obtains List of Foreigners Suspected of Fighting for ISIS – The New York Times
• German Media Say They Have a List of 22,000 Foreign ISIS Recruits – The Atlantic
• Isis document leak reportedly reveals identities of 22,000 recruits | World news | The Guardian
• US, South Korea take part in joint military exercise
• South Korea, U.S. begin exercises as North Korea threatens attack | Reuters
• 315,000 U.S. and South Korean troops begin massive exercise as North threatens war
• Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug. Watch why. – Vox
• One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent | American Civil Liberties Union
• SITE Cyber Security on Twitter: “Jihadi Telegram Channels Disseminate Anonymous-Associated Hacking Guide https://t.co/h0uzLhv75g https://t.co/dpgAFLk1DY”
• At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Commiserate, Plot To Stop Trump
• How DuPont Concealed the Dangers of the New Teflon Toxin
• NPR One
• iPhone may be suffering from Harry Potter fan-created disease – CNET
• This is how we spooked Putin: What the New York Times won’t tell you about the American adventure in Ukraine – Salon.com
• Cannabidiol could have rapid-acting antidepressant-like effects

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The Feds want Apple to break iOS encryption using an 18th-century law & it certainly fails the sniff test. Sony is playing the victim after it’s recent breach & the hype is reaching new levels of absurd. Plus the decade old iTunes lawsuit that could feature testimony from Steve Jobs, we’ll tell you how.

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Feds want Apple’s help to defeat encrypted phones, new legal case shows

Prosecutors invoke 18th-century All Writs Act to get around thorny problem.

Newly discovered court documents from two federal criminal cases in New York and California that remain otherwise sealed suggest that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is pursuing an unusual legal strategy to compel cellphone makers to assist investigations.

In both cases, the seized phones—one of which is an iPhone 5S—are encrypted and cannot be cracked by federal authorities. Prosecutors have now invoked the All Writs Act, an 18th-century federal law that simply allows courts to issue a writ, or order, which compels a person or company to do something.

Ars is publishing the documents in the California case for the first time in which a federal judge in Oakland specifically notes that “Apple is not required to attempt to decrypt, or otherwise enable law enforcement’s attempts to access any encrypted data.”

The two orders were both handed down on October 31, 2014, about six weeks after Apple announced that it would be expanding encryption under iOS 8, which aims to render such a data handover to law enforcement useless. Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that DOJ officials told Apple that it was “marketing to criminals” and that “a child will die” because of Apple’s security design choices.

Apple did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment.

DOJ is uing an Antiquated 1789 ‘All Writs Act’ To Try To Force Phone Manufacturers To Help Unlock Encrypted Phones

Ars went in person to the Oakland courthouse on Wednesday to obtain the documents and is publishing both the government’s application and the judge’s order for the first time here. The All Writs Act application and order are not available via PACER, the online database for federal court records.

“This Court has the authority to order Apple, Inc., to use any capabilities it may have to unlock the iPhone,” Garth Hire, an assistant US attorney, wrote to the court and cited the All Writs Act.

Cyber Ring Stole Secrets For Gaming US Stock Market

Reuters has the scoop this morning on a new report out from the folks at FireEye about a cyber espionage ring that targets financial services firms. The campaign, dubbed FIN4 by FireEye, stole corporate secrets for the purpose of gaming the stock market. FireEye believes that the extensive cyber operation compromised sensitive data about dozens of publicly held companies. According to the report, the victims include financial services firms and those in related sectors, including investment bankers, attorneys and investor relations firms. Rather than attempting to break into networks overtly, the attackers targeted employees within each organization. Phishing e-mail messages led victims to bogus web sites controlled by the hackers, who harvested login credentials to e-mail and social media accounts. Those accounts were then used to expand the hackers’ reach within the target organization: sending phishing email messages to other employees.

Sony hires Mandiant after cyber attack, FBI starts probe | Reuters

Sony Pictures Entertainment has hired FireEye Inc’s Mandiant forensics unit to clean up a massive cyber attack that knocked out the studio’s computer network nearly a week ago, three people with knowledge of the matter said on Sunday.

• New evidence points to North Korean involvement in Sony Pictures hack | The Verge

New evidence is emerging that suggests North Korea may be behind the hack. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that researchers investigating the hack have found the malicious code to be almost exactly the same as the code used in a March 2013 attack on a series of South Korean banks and broadcasters, an attack widely believed to have been conducted by North Korea. Re/code had previously reported that Sony was investigating a North Korean connection, but this new analysis is the most definitive evidence unearthed so far.

• Sony Restored After Hacking, Nears Deal For NYPD Docu ‘The Seven Five’ | Deadline

Sony Pictures has gotten its computer systems back online, with emails and everything else up and running again.

Google sold more Chromebooks to US schools than Apple did iPads in Q3

According to the latest data from IDC, Google, for the first time ever, has overtaken Apple in United States schools. The research firm claims that Google shipped 715,000 Chromebooks to schools in the third quarter, while Apple shipped 702,000 iPads to schools. Chromebooks as a whole now account for a quarter of the educational market (via FT).

Chromebooks start at $199, while last year’s iPad Air, with educational discounts applied, costs $379. The research firm also says that many school corporations prefer the full keyboard found on Chromebooks instead of the touchscreen found on iPads. Some schools that use iPads, however, supply students with a keyboard case as well, but that only further increases the cost of iPads compared to Chromebooks.

Apple faces trial in decade-old iTunes DRM lawsuit | ITworld

Plaintiffs in the Apple iPod iTunes antitrust litigation complain that Apple married iTunes music with iPod players, and they want $350 million in damages. The lawsuit accuses Apple of violating U.S. and California antitrust law by restricting music purchased on iTunes from being played on devices other than iPods and by not allowing iPods to play music purchased on other digital music services. Late Apple founder Steve Jobs will reportedly appear via a videotaped statement during the trial, scheduled to begin Tuesday morning in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The original January 2005 complaint in the case references a music distribution industry that no longer exists nearly a decade later. The document refers to iTunes competitors Napster, Buy.com, Music Rebellion and Audio Lunch Box, along with digital music players from Gateway, Epson, RCA and e.Digital.

The opening paragraphs of the complaint talk about defunct CD seller Tower Records.

Apple has monopoly market power, lawyers for plaintiff Thomas Slattery wrote. “Apple has rigged the hardware and software in its iPod such that the device will not directly play any music files originating from online music stores other than Apple’s iTunes music store,” they wrote.

Apple removed DRM (digital rights management) from iTunes in early 2009, so the lawsuit covers iPods purchased from Apple between September 2006 and March 2009.

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Amazon announces new Kindle hardware with some compelling features. Apple calls out Google and proclaims they are the ones who take your privacy seriously, but can we trust them?

Plus a look at some of the innovative features of FireOS, the new world wide hacking powers the DOJ wants to grant to the FBI & much more.

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Amazon announces massive Kindle refresh including new ‘Kindle Voyage’ and $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet | 9to5Google

Following a big day of Apple news, Kindle has unleashed a massive refresh of its Kindle lines, including three refreshed Kindles and—interestingly—one completely new Kindle model. The lineup includes the company’s new flagship e-reader dubbed Kindle Voyage, a new entry-level Kindle that now packs a touch screen, an updated Kindle Fire HDX, and a new Kindle Fire HD, which is starting at just $99.

The Kindle Voyage, which now sits at the top of the lineup, sports a brand new 6-inch e-ink display and what the company is calling “Pagepress,” which replaces the previous hardware buttons and allows you to change pages by simply squeezing on the bezel around the screen. In terms of dimensions, the device comes in at an impressive 7.6 mm thin and weighs in at right around 6.4 ounces. The device starts at $199, and that’s the version that ships with ads and lacks 3G.

Additionally, Amazon also announced the new bottom-of-the-line Kindle, which now comes standard with a touch screen as well as a processor that’s supposedly around 20 percent faster than the previous entry level model. This device will be the most affordable of the bunch, coming in at $79 and up ($99 if you want to ditch the “special offers”).

• Kindle Voyage hands-on – YouTube

Amazon releases Fire OS 4: Adds Firefly to tablets, integrates cloud | ZDNet

• Fire OS 4 lands with deeper cloud integration, an updated user interface, and profiles for multiple accounts — including individualized preferences for email, social, and settings.

• Based on Android 4.4 KitKat, Amazon built Fire OS 4 on top us. (Just in time for L to ship soon)

• Better battery life with Smart Suspend: Amazon touted Smart Suspend as the new way to save battery life. It sets up a device-specific profile over time to proactively turn off wireless functionality, delivering up to 25 percent more battery life, Amazon says.

• Advanced Streaming and Prediction: Dubbed “ASAP,” devices running Fire OS 4 can now predict which movies and TV content you may want to watch next, while caching them in the background.

• Free cloud-based photo storage: Amazon said Fire OS 4 users now have free and “unlimited” photo storage — including full-resolution snaps — in Amazon’s cloud. Photos are uploaded wirelessly.

Apple Confirms HealthKit Bug, Promises Fix by End of September – Mac Rumors

While details on the issue are still unknown, Apple has confirmed to Tim Bradshaw of Financial Times that it has discovered a “bug” in HealthKit that will require a software update to fix. Unfortunately, Apple is not necessarily promising an immediate turnaround on the fix, saying only that the company is aiming to “have HealthKit apps available by the end of the month”.

Apple will no longer unlock most iPhones, iPads for police, even with search warrants – The Washington Post

The key is the encryption that Apple mobile devices automatically put in place when a user selects a passcode, making it difficult for anyone who lacks that passcode to access the information within, including photos, e-mails and recordings. Apple once kept possession of encryption keys that unlocked devices for legally binding police requests, but will no longer do so for iOS 8, it said in a new guide for law enforcement.

“Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data,” Apple said on its Web site. “So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8.”

Digia spins off Qt as subsidiary · LinuxGizmos.com

Digia has spun off a subsidiary called “The Qt Company” to unify Qt’s commercial and open source efforts, and debuted a low-cost plan for mobile developers.

Now Qt is its own company, or at least a wholly owned subsidiary under Digia. Finland-based Digia has largely been involved with the commercial versions of Qt since it acquired the platform from Nokia in 2012, but it has also sponsored the community Qt Project as a relatively separate project. Now, both efforts are being unified “under one roof” at The Qt Company and the new QT.io website, says Digia. Meanwhile, Digia will focus on its larger enterprise software business.

According to Qt, the number of Qt developers has grown “exponentially” to about 800,000, spurred on by the 2013 Qt 5.2 release, which added Qt for Android and iOS ports. Within six weeks, Qt 5.2 was downloaded 500,000 times, and it reached one million downloads only four months after the release. Another one million downloads have occurred since the July release of Qt 5.3, says the company.

DOJ Proposal Would Let FBI Hack Into Computers Overseas With Little Oversight | Techdirt

JustSecurity, alerts us to a rather frightening proposal from the Justice Department that would enable law enforcement to hack into the computers of people who are trying to be anonymous online. At issue is that current rules basically would extend the powers granted for terrorism investigations to everyday criminal investigations, concerning specifically the DOJ/FBI’s ability to hack into computers. In the past, judges could issue warrants for such computer hacking if the target was known to be located in the same district. But the proposed change would wipe out that limitation, and basically give the DOJ/FBI the power to get approval for hacking into a much broader range of computers. Without the geographical limitation, there’s concern about just how broadly this new power would be (ab)used.

Under the DOJ’s proposal, unilateral state action will be the rule, not the exception, in the event an anonymous target “prove[s] to be outside the United States.” The reason is simple: without knowing the target location before the fact, there is no way to provide notice (or obtain consent from) a host country until after its sovereignty has been encroached.

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The DOJ’s investigations into journalists has expanded, who is the target, and how far is the US government willing to go? We dig into the details.

Ripped apart from a massive tornado Moore Oklahoma, begins their recovery. The media on the other hand has gone into full exploitation mode, we’ll rip them up.

Then Russia outs another CIA operative, Tim Cook Testified in the senate, the flawed Media Shield Law, a BIG drone update, and much much more.

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Oklahoma Twister

• Dad drives through storm to get son as tornado hits – YouTube

Jeff Lechus talks about driving to pick up his son from school as a tornado hit the area.

• Majority thinks global warming, clean energy should be priorities – latimes.com

70% of American adults say global warming should be a priority for the nation’s leaders, while 87% say leaders should make it a priority to develop sources of clean energy. Those support levels have dropped by 7% and 5% respectively since fall.

Tim Cook Testifies to Senate Committee

• Apple’s Tim Cook: U.S. Tax Code Handicaps Companies – YouTube

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., said the iPhone maker doesn’t use “gimmicks” to avoid taxes. Cook, testifying before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in Washington, said the current U.S. tax code “handicaps” American companies. (This is an excerpt from the hearing. Source: Bloomberg)

• Apple CEO makes no apology for company’s tax strategy – Yahoo! Finance

In Ireland, where low corporate taxes have been an economic development tool for many years, the government said it had not made a special tax deal with Apple. If Apple’s tax rate was too low, it was the fault of other countries, deputy prime minister Eamon Gilmore told national broadcaster RTE on Tuesday.

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IRS Targets “Tea Party” Groups

• IRS official refuses to answer questions at scandal hearing

“I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations, and I have not provided false information to this or any congressional committee,” she said. “Because I am asserting my right not to testify, I know that some people will assume that I have done something wrong. I have not.”

DOJ Targeted Fox News as Well as AP

• Fox News Reporter James Rosen Had DoJ Target – Business Insider

The Department of Justice heavily tracked Fox News reporter James Rosen during a 2009 leak probe, according to a report from Ann E. Marimow in the Washington Post.

Media Shield Law has Flaws

• White House asks Schumer to introduce press shield law – POLITICO.com

The White House has asked Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to reintroduce a press shield law, White House officials said Wednesday.

The move comes after questions were raised about the seizure of Associated Press phone records by the Justice Department as part of a national security leak investigation.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that Obama welcomes the reintroduction of the shield bill.

• Obama’s media shield law makes prosecuting journalists even easier

“As a Senator, Obama was a vocal supporter of a robust shield
law; he co-sponsored a bill in 2007 and campaigned on the issue in
2008,” Timm wrote. “But when the Senate moved to pass the
bill as soon as Obama came into office, his administration abruptly
changed course and opposed the bill, unless the Senate carved out
an exception for all national security reporters.”

For the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Timm wrote this week
that the latest version of the shield law wouldn’t do much more.
Under the Sept. 2009 request sent from the White House, the shield
law once supported by Pres. Obama would include an exception where
journalists could be subpoenaed if it means national security is at
risk.

“Now, it’s important to remember: virtually the only time the
government subpoenas reporters, it involves leak investigations
into stories by national security reporters. So it’s hard to see
how this bill will significantly help improve press freedom,”
wrote Timm. “Worse, there’s a strong argument that passing the
bill as it ended in 2010 will weaken rights reporters already have
and make it easier for the government to get sources from
reporters.”

“The difference is that instead of DOJ unilaterally making
that determination,” the Justice Department would "have to
convince a judge that this was the case," University of
Minnesota Law Professor Jane Kirtley explained to the Post.

Friend of the Boston Bomber Older Brother Killed by FBI

• Man killed by FBI agent knew Tsarnaevs, official says – CNN.com

Ibragim Todashev, the man shot dead last night by an FBI agent in Orlando, Florida, had been acquainted with deceased Boston Marathon attacker Tamerlan Tsarnaev at a mixed martial arts center near Boston, according to a source briefed on the ongoing marathon bombing investigation. Todashev had Tsarnaev’s phone number in his cell phone, the source said.

• Man with ties to Boston bombing suspect admits role in 2011 murders; shot during FBI questioning – U.S. News

Dead Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and another man — who was killed by the FBI on Wednesday — murdered three people in Massachusetts after a drug deal went wrong in 2011, law enforcement sources tell NBC News.

SPIED HARD

• Russian Official Names CIA Station Chief In Moscow

Breaching protocol, a Russian official let a name slip during an interview with Interfax, the state news agency.

The FSB agent told the news agency that last year, another embassy secretary was expelled from Russia for recruiting attempts. That case wasn’t made public, the agent said, but the U.S. was warned.
“We hoped our American colleagues would hear us, given that we also presented to them precise information about CIA officers making recruitment attempts in Moscow and who exactly was doing that,” the FSB agent said.
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Drone Update

• Meet Cyro, The US Navy’s 170 Pound Underwater Jellyfish Drone – Girls Just Wanna Have Guns

Meet Cyro, the Virginia Tech College of Engineering underwater life-like jellyfish drone in development for US Navy surveillance.

• Pentagon absorbs portion of CIA’s drone program – YouTube

The Obama administration is handing control of some of its counterterrorism operations that previously fell into the hands of the CIA over to the Pentagon. The controversial drone program used by the CIA to target suspected terrorists has attracted a fair share of criticism as of late, and moving some of its operations over to the Department of Defense will allow Congress to have some oversight. Drone strikes in Yemen will fall into the hands of the Armed Forces while those that occur in Pakistan will continue to be controlled by the CIA.

• U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes – NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.

The letter also said that the United States had killed three other Americans: Samir Khan, who was killed in the same strike; Mr. Awlaki’s son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was also killed in Yemen; and Jude Mohammed, who was killed in a strike in Pakistan.

“These individuals were not specifically targeted by the United States,” Mr. Holder wrote.

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