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Front Page: Julia Child Was a Spy, Inflation Hits Major High, Lebanon Bombing Kills 15
- Julia Child Was a Spy: Newly released files show that famous chef Julia Child was a World War-II era spy. The CIA declassified 35,000 top-secret personnel files that detailed the huge spy network run by the OSS, which later became the CIA. Former OSS agents are pleased with the release of the information, a list which includes other notables like Ernest Hemingway's and Teddy Roosevelt's sons.
- Inflation Hits Major High: Consumer prices rose at twice the rate expected to post the fastest rate of growth in 17 years.
Reply All? Swedish Government Checking Citizens' Emails
She looks so happy checking her email in her Ikea-esque room! Too bad if she was actually in Sweden, she'd be hopping mad that her government was checking her email for her. A new law that provides the Swedish government the right to read all emails and listen to all phone calls crossing the country’s borders has outraged its citizens — who've harnessed build-your-own-irony and filed 2 million protests — online.
Spies Among Us Prove Israel Has the Bomb?
Yesterday, an American mechanical engineer for a US Army weapons center was arrested for disclosing classified defense information to none other than our own allies, the Israelis.
Ben-Ami Kadish is being accused of acting as an illegal agent (read: spy) for the Israelis from 1979 to 2008 without notifying anyone in the US Attorney General’s office. Between 1979 and 1985, it is alleged that Kadish took classified documents to his home in New Jersey where his contact (code named CC-1) would photograph the sensitive material.
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Shot Through the Heart! Spy Gives Gun Control a Bad Name
Get this: a gun-control activist, who sat on the board of two anti-violence groups, might have been a spy for the NRA all along! Mary Lou McFate (or Mary Lou Sapone) has worked for gun control for over a decade, but her organizations have just kicked her out so they can start checking her offices for bugs. Using her maiden name "McFare," Mary allegedly posed as a gun-control activist at the behest of the National Rifle Association.
Google to Help the CIA Spy
Google is helping the CIA get its blog on. The internet search engine giant will supply the technology for a Wikipedia-style intelligence site: Intellipedia.
Agents will post information about targets on a secure internal forum where they can read, edit, and tag their own content, as well as the content of other spies.
Sunday Confessional: I Spied To Save My Marriage
Dear Sugar
My husband and I have been married for a year and a half. We met in our early thirties and dated for about three years before we got married. This is my husband's second marriage, and my first.
Front Page: UK Papers Accused of Spying on Famous People
- British police are investigating the tabloid News of the World and other papers for allegedly paying private investigators to obtain private phone numbers, bank statements, and voice mail messages from top celebrities and politicians. — AP
- Violence erupted across Iran, as Iranians held a new wave of demonstrations. Baton-wielding police officers broke up the protests.
Front Page: Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee Arrive Home
- Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrived home in California this morning, accompanied by former President Bill Clinton. — CNN
- A man who opened fire in a Pennsylvania gym last night, killing four, apparently kept a website chronicling his years of rejection by women. — AP
- President Obama has unveiled a $2.4 billion grant program for electric cars.
Briefing Book! China Surveillance Spying on Skype Users
- China: Wireless wiretapping? Chats over Skype network are being tracked and recorded by computers located in China. — Shanghaiist
- McCain: Is John McCain a hipster?
Front Page: Cheney in Afghanistan, Germany Limits Spying, McCain in the UK
- Vice President Dick Cheney visited Afghanistan today to meet with President Hamid Karzai. The visit is in anticipation of a NATO summit where Washington is expected to urge its allies to send more troops to the troubled country. The NATO-led force has about 43,000 troops in Afghanistan, charged with fighting Taliban militants.
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