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Press More Aggressive Post Snowden; Obama Ignoring Geneva Conventions; Putin Controls Russia Internet
Intelligence Overseer Says Press Is More Aggressive Post Snowden. Speaking to a convention of government contractors, the California Democrat attributed the change partly to “less confidence or trust” in the government, and partly to a “rush to publish.”
Obama Administration Accused of Ignoring Geneva Conventions in Refusal to Release 74-Pound Guantanamo Detainee. Ba Odah has been held at Guantanamo since 2002. He has never been charged with a crime. He began a peaceful hunger strike in 2007, and in 2009 he was cleared for release – as soon as Yemen became more stable or the government could find someplace else for him to go.
How Putin Controls the Internet and Popular Opinion in Russia. “The specialists needed technical training, had to comply with orders, no questions asked, and they had to protect the secrecy of the operations. … Russia had plenty of such specialists.”
