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Bill Clinton: Better rules needed on spying

Billclinton  Bill Clinton is calling for clarity in how countries gather intelligence. And when it comes to secretly monitoring the telephone conversations or emails of world leaders, Clinton says that during his presidency it depended on who the leaders were. He says American agencies might have spied on leaders his administration thought were engaging in hostile […] Continue reading →

New U.S. spying revelations coming from Snowden leaks: journalist

Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who published documents leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, plans to make new revelations “within the next 10 days or so” on secret U.S. surveillance of the Internet. “The articles we have published so far are a very small part of the revelations that ought to be […] Continue reading →

Al Qaeda vs. Hezbollah: Which is the Current World Champion of Terrorism?

Back during the Bush administration, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage famously called Hezbollah the “A Team of terrorists,” adding, “al-Qaeda is actually the B Team.” How do these two organizations compare today? Last week, the State Department released the 2012 issue of its annual “Country Reports on Terrorism.” At a “background briefing,” a “senior […] Continue reading →