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WikiLeaks Reveals Stratfor's Exclusive Glossary

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Following the controversial release of over five million private emails by online anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, global intelligence company Stratfor undoubtedly has some explaining to do. The emails reveal all sorts of information including details regarding sources, operations and miscellaneous gossip. But, perhaps most peculiar is one specific document circulated among employees in 2007. The document, titled The Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms.

White House to Fortify Yemen Al Qaeda Push

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The Obama administration is preparing to bolster Yemen's abilities to take on the country's increasingly bold and assertive Al Qaeda franchise, the New York Times reported.
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Bradley Manning Defers Plea at Court-Martial Hearing

U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history, deferred a plea in a military court arraignment Thursday, marking the first step in a court-martial that could land him in prison for life.
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA) introduced a bill that would make "Do Not Track" an official law.

FBI and Homeland Security Monitoring Social Media: Stop it!, Says California Congresswoman

While the FBI looks to hire app developers to help them snoop around social media sites, the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring blogs for signs of domestic terrorism. Jackie Speier, a San Francisco Bay Area based Congresswoman is demanding they stop. She said as much during a Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence meeting Feb. 16.
Leader of China Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama.

Xi Jinping: New Friend of the U.S.?

Xi Jinping's visit to the United States is all the rage as Washington scurries to get a better impression of the presumed successor of President Hu Jintao. However, it would be premature to judge Xi's comfortable and amicable style as a sign of any weakness.
China's Vice President Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping: Top Eight Facts About China's 'Next Political Leader'

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is eager to show the world that he has what it takes to lead the world's second-largest economy once he's elected as President. Jinping's official visit to Washington on Tuesday has catapulted him into the international spotlight, thus providing the first glimpse of the man most likely to be China's next leader.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the Supreme Court in Westminster, on the second day of his extradition appeal, in London

Julian Assange joins outcast Simpsons for 500th episode

Wikileaks comes to Springfield as controversial figure Julian Assange joins the cast of The Simpsons for their milestone 500th episode on Sunday, which will see America's famous animated family being banished from their hometown.
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Haditha Marine's lawyers call Anonymous cowards after hack

Lawyers for a U.S. Marine court-martialed for his role in killing Iraqi civilians in Haditha slammed the international hacking collective Anonymous as cowards on Monday after they knocked out the firm's website and published internal e-mails on the web.
Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning to Face Full Court-martial in WikiLeaks Case

Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of passing classified documents to WikiLeaks, will face a full court-martial, the U.S. Army Military District of Washington announced on Friday. Manning faces 22 charges of participating in the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the High Court in London

Julian Assange to guest star on The Simpsons

Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be a guest character and voice on animated TV comedy The Simpsons, playing a neighbor of the family after they move from their home in fictional Springfield.
Julian Assange

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange to Host Talk Show on Pro- Kremlin T.V.

Julian Assange will be taking on yet another challenge, a talk show on Russian television. The show is scheduled to air in in mid-March, and will be divided into 10 half-hour episodes each week. Assange has said he plans to invite and interview key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from around the world on the show.
Undated handout image courtesy of the U.S. Air Force shows a MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft.

How Pakistan Helps the U.S. Armed-Drone Campaign

Appearance Vs. Reality: The recent death of a senior al-Qaida leader as the result of a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal badlands -- the first such strike in almost two months -- signaled that the U.S.-Pakistan intelligence partnership is still in operation despite political tensions.
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What Does SOPA Mean to You? 5 Points You Need to Know

The proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives ostensibly to curb piracy, has been at the receiving end of severe backlash from Internet companies including Google and Wikipedia.
Afghanistan War

Marine Desecration Video - A New Abu Ghraib?

A video appearing to show U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters promises to become an enduring memory of the Afghan war and is already drawing sharp reaction from across the world as it goes viral on the Internet.

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