http://www.mail.com/subjects/34340-intelligence-agencies.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/34340-intelligence-agencies.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2090970-justice-dept-faulted-terrorist-identities.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The government allowed "a small but significant number" of terrorists into America's witness protection program and then failed to provide the names of some of them for a watch list that's used to keep dangerous people off airline flights, the Justice Department's inspector general says. As a result of the department's failure to share i... Thu, 16 May 2013 22:10:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2090970-justice-dept-faulted-terrorist-identities.html 2013-05-16T22:10:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2089568-obama-calls-congress-to-fund-embassy-security.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday tried to turn the tables on Republicans who have criticized his administration's response to last year's deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, calling on lawmakers to approve his request to increase funding for diplomatic security. Obama's call was the second step in as many days designed to combat GOP char... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:44:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2089568-obama-calls-congress-to-fund-embassy-security.html 2013-05-16T20:44:56Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2087348-petraeus-email-objected-to-benghazi-talking-points.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points the Obama administration used after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more details revealed to the public, according to emails released Wednesday by the White House. Under pressure in the investigation that contin... Thu, 16 May 2013 00:21:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2087348-petraeus-email-objected-to-benghazi-talking-points.html 2013-05-16T00:21:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2086578-russia-alleged-spying-case-was-2nd-this-year.html MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian security services operative — his features bathed in shadows — went on state television Wednesday to claim that the U.S. diplomat who was ordered out of the country was the second American expelled this year over spying allegations. The anonymous operative said the CIA had failed to halt this "disturbing activity" despite Moscow as... Wed, 15 May 2013 20:17:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2086578-russia-alleged-spying-case-was-2nd-this-year.html 2013-05-15T20:17:26Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2085106-holder-played-role-ap-phone-subpoena.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records though he declared he had played no role in it, saying it was justified as part of an investigation into a grave national security leak. The government's wide-ranging information gathering from the news cooperati... Tue, 14 May 2013 22:26:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2085106-holder-played-role-ap-phone-subpoena.html 2013-05-14T22:26:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2085190-russia-us-spy.html The Cold War is long over, but espionage is forever. Russian spies still operate in the U.S. and American ones in Russia. On Tuesday, Russia's security services said they had caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA official trying to recruit a Russian agent. Here are some other cases of apparent spying between the old rivals: THE ANNA CHAPMAN RING ... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:07:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2085190-russia-us-spy.html 2013-05-14T21:07:13Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2077854-man-sentenced-plot-terror-witnesses.html RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man was sentenced Friday to four life terms for plotting to behead federal witnesses whose testimony helped convict him for his role in an earlier plot to slaughter U.S. servicemen and their families. Hysen Sherifi, 29, was one of six Raleigh-area Muslims convicted in 2011 of planning to attack the Marine base in Quan... Sat, 11 May 2013 03:28:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2077854-man-sentenced-plot-terror-witnesses.html 2013-05-11T03:28:16Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2077016-dept-sought-to-change-libya-talking-points.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted, according to department emails. The latest discl... Sat, 11 May 2013 01:10:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2077016-dept-sought-to-change-libya-talking-points.html 2013-05-11T01:10:06Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2073386-boston-chief-wasnt-told-fbi-tsarnaev-warning.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI did not initially share with Boston police the warnings it had received from Russia about one suspect in last month's marathon bombings, despite the work of four city police representatives on a federal terrorism task force, Boston's police commissioner told Congress on Thursday. Yet Commissioner Ed Davis acknowledged that police... Thu, 09 May 2013 21:21:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2073386-boston-chief-wasnt-told-fbi-tsarnaev-warning.html 2013-05-09T21:21:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2068842-woman-who-secret-prison-bypassed-top-spy.html WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the CIA's highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed for the agency's top spy job. The officer, who remains undercover, was a finalist for the job and would have become the first female chief of clandestine operations. As one of the last remaining senior ... Tue, 07 May 2013 22:49:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2068842-woman-who-secret-prison-bypassed-top-spy.html 2013-05-07T22:49:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2062622-7-american-service-members-killed-afghanistan.html KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Seven U.S. soldiers and a member of the NATO-led coalition were killed on Saturday in one of the deadliest days for Americans and other foreign troops in Afghanistan in recent months, as the Taliban continued attacks as part of their spring offensive. The renewed violence came as Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged at a ne... Sat, 04 May 2013 21:07:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2062622-7-american-service-members-killed-afghanistan.html 2013-05-04T21:07:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2060302-judge-reverses-decision-to-free-terror-suspect.html CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge Friday quashed another judge's surprise order to release an Illinois teenager pending trial on charges he sought to join al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria. Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, 18, of Aurora, posed a potential threat not just to Illinois and the U.S. but to "the entire world community," said U.S. District Judge Edmond Cha... Fri, 03 May 2013 20:45:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2060302-judge-reverses-decision-to-free-terror-suspect.html 2013-05-03T20:45:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2056714-official-arrested-student-entered-us-without-visa.html WASHINGTON (AP) — One of three college students arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the United States from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Authorities charged the student — a friend and classmate of one of the men accus... Wed, 01 May 2013 23:39:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2056714-official-arrested-student-entered-us-without-visa.html 2013-05-01T23:39:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2053682-sharing-bombings-under-review.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday his counterterrorism bureaucracy "did what it was supposed to be doing" before the Boston Marathon bombing as his top intelligence official began a review into whether sensitive information was adequately shared and whether the U.S. government could have disrupted the attack. "We want to go back and we... Wed, 01 May 2013 00:18:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2053682-sharing-bombings-under-review.html 2013-05-01T00:18:03Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2053726-obama-us-who-used-chem-weapons.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he'd consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil war. At a White House news conference, the president also defended the FBI's work in monitoring the activities in recent years of one... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2053726-obama-us-who-used-chem-weapons.html 2013-04-30T20:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2051180-karzai-us-funds-to-national-security-team.html KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that his national security team has been receiving payments from the U.S. government for the past 10 years. Karzai confirmed the payments when he was asked about a story published in The New York Times saying the CIA had given the Afghan National Security Council tens of millions of dolla... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:17:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2051180-karzai-us-funds-to-national-security-team.html 2013-04-29T19:17:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2050350-mother-bomb-suspects-insists-sons-innocent.html BOSTON (AP) — The angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects insists that her sons are innocent and that she's no terrorist. But Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In anot... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:46:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2050350-mother-bomb-suspects-insists-sons-innocent.html 2013-04-29T11:46:11Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2050160-mother-bomb-suspects-deeper-spirituality.html BOSTON (AP) — In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 2002, she went to beauty school and did facials at a suburban day spa. But in recent years, people noticed a change. She began wearing a hijab and cited conspiracy theorie... Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:45:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2050160-mother-bomb-suspects-deeper-spirituality.html 2013-04-28T22:45:29Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2049012-russia-caught-bomb-suspect-wiretap.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call. In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was ... Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:56:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2049012-russia-caught-bomb-suspect-wiretap.html 2013-04-28T13:56:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2048308-investigators-push-ahead-boston-bombing-probe.html BOSTON (AP) — With the Boston marathon bombing suspect in a prison hospital, investigators are pushing forward in the U.S. and abroad to piece together the myriad details of a plot that killed three people and injured more than 260. FBI agents have wrapped up a two-day search at a landfill near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where 19-year-old ... Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:04:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2048308-investigators-push-ahead-boston-bombing-probe.html 2013-04-27T15:04:53Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2047190-boston-bombing-suspects-mom-terror-database.html WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials told The Associated Press. She called it "lies and hypocrisy" and said she has never been linked to crimes or terrorism. The CIA asked for the Boston terror suspect and his mother to b... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:25:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2047190-boston-bombing-suspects-mom-terror-database.html 2013-04-26T20:25:23Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2043506-police-boston-suspects-planned-to-attack-york.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Boston Marathon bombers were headed for New York's Times Square to blow up the rest of their explosives, authorities said Thursday, in what they portrayed as a chilling, spur-of-the-moment scheme that fell apart when the brothers realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas. "New York City was next on their list of targets," Mayor... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:47:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2043506-police-boston-suspects-planned-to-attack-york.html 2013-04-26T00:47:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2043642-boston-suspects-father-hes-returning-to-us.html MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — The father of the two Boston bombing suspects said Thursday that he is soon leaving Russia for the United States, to visit one son and lay the other to rest. Their mother said she was still thinking over whether to make the journey. "I am going there to see my son and bury my older one," Anzor Tsarnaev said in an emotional meeti... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:00:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2043642-boston-suspects-father-hes-returning-to-us.html 2013-04-25T22:00:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2040930-officials-suspect-described-plot-miranda.html BOSTON (AP) — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings acknowledged to the FBI his role in the attacks but did so before he was advised of his constitutional right to keep quiet and seek a lawyer, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Once Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his rights on Monday, he immediately stopped talking, according to four officials of... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:51:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2040930-officials-suspect-described-plot-miranda.html 2013-04-25T07:51:43Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2038456-chicago-area-teen-latest-snared-website-traps.html CHICAGO (AP) — It had the trappings of an actual extremist website: Photos of gun-toting fighters and a flowery exhortation to, "Come and join your lion brothers ... fighting under the true banner of Islam." Except, it wasn't what it seemed. It was a sham site constructed and controlled by the FBI with the aim of snaring terrorist wannabes in the virtual ... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:26:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2038456-chicago-area-teen-latest-snared-website-traps.html 2013-04-24T01:26:56Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2040532-lawmakers-intel-blocked-boston-bombs.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are again asking whether a failure to share intelligence contributed to a deadly attack on U.S. soil, after senior officials briefed them Tuesday on the investigation into last week's bombings at the Boston Marathon. None of the lawmakers are saying — yet— that better sharing could have stopped the bombings, as Congress did aft... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:25:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2040532-lawmakers-intel-blocked-boston-bombs.html 2013-04-24T01:25:18Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2038378-boston-buries-dead-evidence-gathered.html BOSTON (AP) — The Boston area held funerals for two more of its dead Tuesday — including an 8-year-old boy — as evidence mounted that the older Tsarnaev brother had embraced a radical, anti-American strain of Islam and was the driving force behind the Boston Marathon bombing. Younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's condition was upgraded from serious to fair ... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:59:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2038378-boston-buries-dead-evidence-gathered.html 2013-04-23T22:59:02Z