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NSA Employee Gets 22 Years in Prison for Trying to Give Top Secret Info to Russia
A former employee of the National Security Agency was sentenced to 262 months, just shy of 22 years, in prison on Monday for trying to send classified information to someone he thought was a Russian spy, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As it turns out, the Russian spy…
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The Legal Case Against the Journalist Who Exposed Kanye West’s Weird Fox News Interview
An opaque legal case against a Florida journalist is alarming press advocates, who see it as a troubling example of draconian government overreach. In May, former Deadspin editor Timothy Burke had his home raided by the FBI. Burke says federal agents seized “phones, computers, hard drives, notebooks, and his entire digital newsroom,” as well as…
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Massive Russian Botnet Targeting Asus Routers Disrupted Before It Could Attack, FBI Says
U.S. officials have revealed a previously undisclosed law enforcement operation against “Sandworm,” the powerful Russian hacking team known for its dexterous and destructive capabilities.
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U.S. Republicans Slobbered All Over Themselves to Apologise to Big Oil CEOs
Republicans and fossil fuel interests have a, shall we say, cosy relationship. But that relationship went from snuggly to downright NSFW on Thursday at a hearing ostensibly about fossil fuel misinformation.