That government agencies with a mandate to
care about national security have an interest in Internet communications is no longer news, if it ever was.
But this isn't
really about national security — that just happens to be the legal argument the administration is using to establish that it has the legal authority to do this.
But the British military became increasingly
concerned about national security and the project was abandoned with no further attempts being made for almost a century.
«At some point, Senator Schumer's credibility in
talking about national security issues, particularly when the facts are as they are when it relates to homeland security, have to be affected by the position that he's taken on other issues,» Earnest said.
«Senator Schumer's credibility in talking
about national security issues... [has] to be affected by positions he's taken on other issues,» Earnest said Wednesday.
(Although to be fair, Alberta's ruling Conservative party is in the midst of a leadership contest and the front - runner, Jim Prentice, is a former federal cabinet minster who's said kind things
about a national securities regulator in the past.)
Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Watergate scandals and, in May, disclosures
about the National Security Administration's surveillance program.»
But «for businesses it's an issue because if [the NSA is] data mining this and it's not
just about national security, it's about national competitiveness for major contracts, say a Bombardier against an Embraer or whatever.
KINDERHOOK, NY... October 27, 2016 — John Faso, who is running for the 19th Congressional district, today joined Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - NY21), local and regional emergency response and law enforcement agencies, students and local stakeholders in a frank
discussion about national security and emergency preparedness.
«I hope I get nominated for the Supreme Court so that I can dismiss what I did when I was 20 Main Kerr interviews former FBI
lawyer about National Security Letters»
«As we continue to push for more transparency in how we can
speak about national security requests, we will update this new section in future transparency reports,» Twitter said.
New
details about the National Security Agency's ability and efforts to decrypt digital information could raise concerns not only about the security of data held by business, but also the software and services marketed to protect that data.
they don't know
anything about national security, maybe the good reverend wants to be a lamb to the slaughter like Jesus but not this guy... if you're on the business end of a US drone it's for a good reason.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin defended his (eventually withdrawn) request to use a government plane for his honeymoon, saying it «had nothing to do with convenience, this was
purely about national security.»
Some incidents are
less about national security than about embarrassment: Bahrain's royal family briefly fought to block its citizens from viewing Google Earth images of its luxury housing, for fear of personal exposure.
Government committees
fret about national security and cultural issues, while businesses ponder the commercial opportunities in what promises to be an enormous market.
McAdams is incapable of being anything but adorable onscreen, Krasinski doesn't say much and does it well, and this might have been a cut - rate version of «The Descendants» (without the genuine emotion) if only Crowe hadn't slopped a belly flop of a
subplot about national security and military privatization over the top.
U.S. law enforcement officials revealed the hack attempts on Wednesday at a conference of American energy firms who were
meeting about national security concerns.
Clearly the debate over the environmental merit of electric hybrids isn't over, but given that Energy CS's Prius got better than 160 mpg while driving around Palm Springs, it pretty well puts to rest any
doubts about its national security benefits.
Shortly after my post earlier
today about national security letters, the Electronic Frontier Foundation issued an alert, «Last Chance to Support PATRIOT Reform — Call Congress Now!»
If this were
all about national security, I might be content to ignore the NSA rumbling around in our metadata closets, but this is not evident and other branches of government want the data.
But as I wrote this week, the movie is essential viewing for anyone who
cares about the national security debate and NSA's co-opting of familiar technology like Google and Facebook to spy on us.