CIA interrogator of "high-value detainees" filed a complaint with the agency's internal watchdog in which he sought "whistleblower protection," claiming the CIA punished him as a "reprisal" for him cooperating with investigations into the treatment of detainees.
The leaked secret strategic plans of Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi — who served in the Iraqi army under Saddam and later masterminded the Islamic State — reveal the surveillance at the heart of Islamic State's military success.
SPOT, the TSA's billion dollar "behavioral detection" mind-reading program, is now apparently in use at Walt Disney World, Seaworld and other Florida attractions.
The panel may also have just saved the career of a Navy nurse who refused to force feed Guantanamo captives.
The two officers blamed for hundreds of anonymous edits to Wikipedia pages on victims of police brutality, made from the NYPD's IP block, will face minor discipline for using work computers for non-work activities.
Police officers are required to display and provide their identification on request—except when they aren't.
Panic attacks, psychosis, and violent impulses. Free with your pumpkin spice latte!
The eBay description: "PLAYMOBIL MUSCULATION CULTURISME DOPING DOPAGE SPORT GYM CRUISING GAY HOMO RARE"
"Let this socialist country resound with Song of Big Fish Haul and be permeated with the fragrant smell of fish and other seafoods!"
Some 600,000 volumes were published in English last year. Here's a few of the best.
Among the dead: cartoonists, editors, journalists, and graphic designers.
Matthew Green's got an excellent postmortem on the huge dump of NSA docs Der Spiegel last weekend.
Many in the information security community doubt that the Sony hack was North Korea's handiwork.
A splendid time with the actor-writer-blogger-geek-champion turned host of TableTop
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's got a nuanced view on the proposal to give cops body-cams, noting the ACLU's view that these cameras need to be carefully designed so that they don't violate the privacy of citizens or make it easy to cover up official corruption.
Glashütte's Nomos rings are clever little fidget-rings that act as sundials: you adjust the little sliding rings to the correct date, turn it to the sun, and the shadow cast by the little ring tells you the time.
Major Wall Street institutions were cracked wide open by a phishing scam from FIN4, a hacker group that, unlike its competition, can write convincingly and employs some basic smarts about why people open attachments.
What Is On Netflix? ranks movies based on ratings from Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB and presents a simple list. This will come in handy.
NASA's launch of an Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares rocket and Cygnus resupply spacecraft for the International Space Station today ended abruptly when the rocket exploded in smoke and flames shortly after liftoff. This was to be Orbital's third resupply mission to the ISS. — Read the rest
Lawyers for a detainee held captive at Guantanamo since 2002 are arguing in court that new force-feeding protocols are particularly abusive, and designed to deter detainees from participating in hunger strikes.
