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Afghanistan: Does War-Battered Country Have Energy Wealth?

Kabul, Afghanistan
The Central Asian nation's natural gas production has plummeted during decades of conflict, to about 1 billion cubic feet per year as of 2009. But underground there could be vast stockpiles of gas as well as oil, potentially satisfying Afghanistan's energy needs for years.
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WikiLeaks Reveals Stratfor's Exclusive Glossary

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.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill

US Intelligence Community Doesn't See Iran Moving to Build Nukes

Amid UN nuclear inspectors' findings that Iran has accelerated its enrichment of uranium, the U.S. intelligence community maintains that no hard evidence exists that Tehran has decided to build a nuclear weapon, according to current and former American officials interviewed by the New York Times.
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NYPD Spied on Newark Muslims Without Telling Mayor

New York City Police Department officers ventured out of their jurisdiction to monitor Muslims in Long Island and in Newark, New Jersey as part of a sweeping program to monitor and gather information on Muslims, the Associated Press reported.
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CIA to software vendors: A revolution is coming

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances.
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CIA to Maintain Sizable Presence in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Washington Post reports that the CIA has plans to maintain a robust operation in both countries after conventional operations have wound down, underscoring the military's broader shift towards clandestine, targeted operations undertaken by CIA agents or Special Forces commandos.
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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.
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CIA, NYPD Link Was 'Extralegal'

Recent evidence shows that the collaboration between the NYPD and CIA, which turned the NYPD into one of the most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, may not have been by the book.
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Pentagon, CIA sued over alleged meetings with filmmaker

A government watchdog group is suing the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming the agencies are refusing to release details of their alleged meetings and communications with director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal.

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