detachments -- or units -- of as little as 12 men were formed, and bases of operations were set up in the United Sates and throughout the world. In 1953, the first deployment of Green Berets took place. Half of the force was sent to Bad Tolz, West Germany, which served as that ...
was one of the first to contemplate the intricacies of enmity, called misos. Aristotle defined hate as a dislike for someone based on our negative perception of that person's nature, so intense that whoever feels it wants to cause real harm to another. Aristotle also noted that a person ...
I passed the FBI's entrance exams and became a special agent in 1969. Because of my background and training, it became clear that my specialty was undercover." Pistone was so effective that even when the operation put dozens of mobsters behind bars, his Mafia friends still thought he was...
・ In a video interview in 2015, Sibel Edmonds, a former interpreter with the FBI, talked about how the US had planned and acted to destabilize Xinjiang. She said that "Xinjiang is the entry artery of energy. We want to, gradually and internally, play the gender card and the race card...
Blarney.This international version of the PRISM program was also said to be part of Fairview. Through Blarney, the NSA formed partnerships with foreign telecom operators to gain access to their customer data. Stormbrew and Oakstar.Like Blarney, these two programs fall under the Fairview umbrella....
The most well-known dark web marketplace was the Silk Road, which launched in 2011 and essentially functioned as an Amazon-like market for illegal drugs. In 2013, the FBI shut down the Silk Road, and its founder Ross Ulbricht is now serving a double life sentence. Dark web marketplaces ...
funnel drone footage to the Central Intelligence Agency. Elemental’s national security contracts weren’t the main reason for the proposed acquisition, but they fit nicely with Amazon’s government businesses, such as the highly secure cloud that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was building for the ...
Was the victim yelling at someone on the phone a half-hour before the police arrived? If so, the Caller ID unit is a good piece of evidence. If an upstairs neighbor heard a struggle and then the sound of water running, this could indicate a clean-up attempt, and the CSI knows to ...
This case was significant because it was the first time the SEC accused a company of intentional or reckless fraud (known legally as scienter-based fraud) in a cybersecurity matter. By bringing this case, the SEC sent a clear message that it will hold companies and their executives responsibl...
“I think it’s because most people were wearing the fancy hats the first and the second night,” Carpus told me. “Tonight’s more of an elegant night.” More broadly, the vibes of both conventions were eerily similar. In Milwaukee, Trump was the object of a kind of religi...