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• Visible Technologies Gets Funding To Help The CIA Monitor Social Media

  PaidContent - 2009-10-20

  As if posting a stream of status updates to hundreds of strangers on Twitter doesn’t have enough “big brother” potential ... Visible Technologies, the WPP-backed social media monitoring firm, has picked up an undisclosed amount of funding from In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment arm of the U.S. government. In-Q-Tel serves...

  Tags: CIA, Twitter Inc., Social Media, In-Q-Tel, Corporate Insurance, Software Development, Homeland Security, Business Security, Government, Branding, Biotechnology, Business Operations, Software/Web Development, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Tameka Kee

• BIGresearch Analysis Shows Changing Tides in Race for the White House

  - 2008-10-14

  The crumbling economy appears to be boosting sentiments for change as Obama's Net Promotor Score* NPS increased 5 points since last month, according to BIGresearch's ( http://www.bigresearch.com ) October Consumer Intentions & Actions Survey of 8,117 respondents. While McCain's NPS decreased month over month, Obama made gains among both Democrats...

  Tags: CIA, Democrat, FINANCE, Government, Republican, White House

• Kissinger reportedly covered up PLO assassination of ambassador

  - 2008-09-29

  "Henry Kissinger instructed the CIA to continue diplomatic contacts with Yassir Arafat's PLO representatives before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, even after Arafat ordered the kidnapping and murder of the American ambassador and his deputy in Khartoum, Sudan." So reported the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on September 1, 2008. According...

  Tags: ambassador, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Leadership

• Review: The only thrill in 'Traitor' is knowing when this film is

  - 2008-08-27

  What's worse than a thriller with no thrills? A thriller that puts you to sleep. Flat and just plain boring most of the time, "Traitor" wastes some fine actors -- Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels and Said Taghmaoui -- and a topical story, finding no sparks in...

  Tags: agent, CIA, Government, movie, terrorism

• Teen had assault guns, map to White House retreat: report

  - 2008-08-06

  WASHINGTON AFP — Police are investigating a Washington area teenager who allegedly had amassed an arsenal of deadly assault weapons and bomb-making materials, along with a map to the US president's weekend retreat, press reports said Wednesday. Authorities said recent high school graduate Collin McKenzie-Gude -- who had a...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Government, Washington, White House

• Fact Sheet: A Lasting Framework for United States Intelligence Activities

  - 2008-07-31

  President Bush Updates Executive Order to Create a More Unified, Integrated, and Collaborative Intelligence Community WASHINGTON -- President Bush issued an Executive Order to advance and institutionalize the reforms enacted into law by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 and to provide a durable framework for...

  Tags: CIA, Government, president, U.S.

• Bush to unveil US intelligence overhaul

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush will Thursday unveil an overhaul of the US intelligence services that strips the CIA of some power to work with foreign intelligence agencies, a White House spokeswoman said. The executive order, signed by Bush on Wednesday, "clarifies and strengthens the authorities...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bush, CIA, director, FINANCE, Government, Investment, president, White House

• Letters: Larry's sleuthing tips

  - 2008-07-28

  MY, MY! Larry Mendte certainly was the busy little beaver, snooping into Alycia Lane's e-mail account a whopping 537 times in just under five months. Talk about someone who loved his work! The FBI and CIA could take lessons from Larry. Between Alycia the tabloid queen and Larry the snoop,...

  Tags: CIA, E-mail, FBI, Government

• Putting Al Qaeda On The Couch

  - 2008-07-28

  September 11 was a recruiting poster for young people who are looking for some kind of direction in their lives. Marc Sageman has charted an unlikely path. The first scholar-in-residence at the New York City Police Department survived the Holocaust to become a psychiatrist, a sociologist and a CIA...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, CIA, Government, recruiting

• FILM OF THE DAY; The Good Shepherd

  - 2008-07-24

  Robert De Niro directs and stars in this spy drama exploring the secret history of the CIA. The film focuses on the personal and professional struggles of Edward Wilson Matt Damon, whose membership of a secret society while studying at Yale leads him into a career with the government's intelligence...

  Tags: CAREER, CIA, drama, Government, SOFTWARE, Yale University