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AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #30-10 dated 10 August 2010

Section I – INTELLIGENCE HIGHLIGHTS Witness Says WikiLeaks Investigators Sought to Limit Disclosure Two Arrested After Explosives Sent to British Spy HQ Czech Military Intelligence Uncovered its Own Spies Iran ‘Spying Trial’ Opens in Kuwait Father of Internet Imam Plans to Sue CIA The Slow Revelation of Poland’s “CIA Detention Facilities” Senate Approves Honor for …

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Secrecy News: Afghanistan Deaths, CRS Reports, Weaknesses in Industrial Cyber Sec, Too Many Secrets, Math Discovery

SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2010, Issue No. 62 August 2, 2010 Secrecy News Blog:  http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ **      AFGHANISTAN CASUALTIES, AND MORE FROM CRS **      WEAKNESSES IN INDUSTRIAL CYBER SECURITY DESCRIBED **      TOO MANY SECRETS, THE GREATEST MATH DISCOVERY, AND MORE AFGHANISTAN CASUALTIES, AND MORE FROM CRS Sixty-six American troops died …

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Wyly Brothers, Top Republican Bankrollers, Accused of Massive Fraud

By Dave Levinthal on July 29, 2010 Charles Wyly Jr. and Samuel Wyly, Texas businessmen and brothers who are among the nation’s most generous campaign donors to Republican political candidates and causes, were today hit with a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing them of fraud worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The SEC accuses the Wylys of …

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DHS: A Political Filter for FOIA Info Requests

By TED BRIDIS (AP) – July 21, 2010 WASHINGTON — For at least a year, the Homeland Security Department detoured hundreds of requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive, according to nearly 1,000 pages of internal e-mails …

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Review: Eaarth–Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

Starts Weak, Ends Strong, Not the Whole Picture July 21, 2010 Bill McKibben EDIT of 2 August 2010: However great the mind or the man, we all make mistakes. Paul Hawkins made his with Monsanto, I’ve made mine. ClimateGate established with clarity the fraud associated with both the fabricated science and the intended “sub-prime mortgaging” …

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