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    NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls 

    Published on 06-16-2013 10:39 PM



    National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.

    The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls, a participant said.

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    It's Time for Liberals to Accept That Obama Is Worse Than Bush 

    Published on 06-15-2013 03:37 PM



    "Barack Obama is not George W. Bush," the liberal French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy told me in a recent interview for al-Jazeera. "Everybody knows that." Until a few years ago, "everybody" included Edward Snowden. The 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant, responsible for one of the biggest intelligence leaks in US history, first considered "exposing government secrets" back in 2008,

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    Snipers Take Out Obama Safari 

    Published on 06-14-2013 02:22 PM   


    President and Mrs. Obama are planning a trip to sub-Saharan Africa later in the month, but the White House has scotched a plan to include a Tanzanian safari on the agenda after a reporter revealed that a team of snipers with high-powered military assault rifles would accompany him in the wild. The newspaper based its report on a confidential planning document leaked from someone in the administration.

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    Girl's controversial lung transplant surgery successful 

    Published on 06-13-2013 08:38 AM   


    Sarah Murnaghan, the 10-year-old girl suffering from end-stage cystic fibrosis whose bid to get a transplant from adult lungs drew national attention, received a lung transplant Wednesday. "Her doctors are very pleased with both her progress during the procedure and her prognosis for recovery,'' her family said in a statement issued after surgery in Philadelphia.

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    Colorado fires force thousands to flee 

    Published on 06-13-2013 08:35 AM   


    Four wildfires burning across the state Wednesday have destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands to evacuate, including 900 inmates from a state prison. Near Colorado Springs, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said Wednesday afternoon that the Black Forest Fire had destroyed 92 homes and damaged five others. Flames were jumping fire lines and burning uncontrolled over about 48 square miles.

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    IRS Illegally Seizes Medical Records 

    Published on 06-12-2013 09:15 AM   


    A class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in San Diego says 15 IRS agents illegally seized the medical records of more than 10 million Americans ... The lawsuit, filed last month in Superior Court by Malibu, Calif., lawyer Robert E. Barnes on behalf of an unnamed firm — identified in court records as the “John Doe Company” — seeks $25,000 in compensatory damages for each victim for violations of Fourth Amendment rights, which guard against unreasonable searches and seizures.

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