147 FBI agents involved in Clinton email probe
March 29, 2016 by legitgov
147 FBI agents involved in Clinton email probe | 28 March 2016 | A new report says 147 FBI agents are involved in the investigation surrounding Hillary Clinton’s private email server and handling of classified material. The Washington Post reports that the large number of agents have been deployed to run down leads in the investigation, citing a lawmaker briefed by FBI Director James Comey. The Post reported that the FBI has accelerated its investigation because officials want to avoid potentially announcing any action close to the November election.
FBI has accessed San Bernardino shooter’s phone without Apple’s help
March 29, 2016 by legitgov
FBI has accessed San Bernardino shooter’s phone without Apple’s help | 28 March 2016 | The Justice Department is abandoning its bid to force Apple to help it unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack because investigators have found a way in without the tech giant’s assistance, prosecutors wrote in a court filing Monday. In a three-sentence filing, prosecutors wrote they had “now successfully accessed the data” stored on Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone, and they consequently no longer needed Apple’s court-ordered help getting in. The stunning move averts a courtroom showdown pitting Apple and privacy interests against the government and security concerns that many in the tech community had warned might set dangerous precedents.
CIA photographed prisoners naked before sending them to be tortured
March 28, 2016 by legitgov
CIA photographed prisoners naked before sending them to be tortured –Act is potential US war crime | 28 March 2016 | The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent to its foreign partners for torture, the Guardian can reveal. A former US official who had seen some of the photographs described them as “very gruesome”…Some human rights campaigners described the act of naked photography on unwilling detainees prisoners as a potential war crime. Unlike video evidence of CIA torture at its undocumented “black site” prisons that were destroyed in 2005 by a senior official, the CIA is said to retain the photographs. In some of the photos, which remain classified, CIA captives are blindfolded, bound and show visible bruises. Some photographs also show people believed to be CIA officials or contractors alongside the naked prisoner.
Black Hawk helicopters deployed for record Kansas wildfire
March 27, 2016 by legitgov
Black Hawk helicopters deployed for record Kansas wildfire | 26 March 2016 | Firefighters trying to snuff out the biggest wildfire in Kansas history are getting help from military helicopters — and a potential assist from looming rain or snow. Four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the Kansas National Guard were deployed Saturday in the effort to contain the persistent prairie blazes that since Tuesday have charred at least 620 square miles in Oklahoma and southern Kansas, destroying at least two homes and some livestock. At least two of the helicopters have 660-gallon buckets that will be used to dump water from local sources onto the flames, said Ben Bauman, a spokesman for the Kansas Adjutant General’s Office.