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Zelikow memo made a case against enhanced interrogation
Several of the enhanced interrogation techniques undertaken by the CIA were “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment” and unconstitutional, a State Department counselor during the George W. Bush presidency argued in a 2006 memo newly released by a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
Mobile devices and apps pose cybersecurity challenges
Mobile device adoption in federal agencies is challenging current cybersecurity thinking in many ways, said members of a panel speaking March 23 at a breakfast hosted by AFCEA Bethesda. "I'm not
Country of origin bad heuristic for supply chain risk
Just tracking the country of origin of information technology products would not stymie supply chain vulnerabilities, intelligence community officials told Government Accountability auditors. In a
CBP and ICE still not coordinating well, says DHS IG
Matters of coordination and siloed information systems continue to be problems for Homeland Security Department components with border-related jurisdictions, says the DHS inspector general. In a
ICE to release nationwide standard for illegal immigrant risk assessment
Law enforcement officials will soon have a nationwide standard that classifies illegal immigrants according to risk, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton told a March 8
Judge extends DNSChanger replacement servers
A federal judge has extended until July 9 an effort to keep in place legitimate replacement servers handling domain name service requests from computers infected with a virus known as DNSChanger that
Fifth Amendment protection of encrypted laptops uncertain
A legal fight in Colorado over whether the federal government can compel a defendant to decrypt her password-protected laptop has ended with the government unlocking the hard drive on its own,
Obama issues waivers to mandatory military detention of al Qaeda terrorists
The White House issued Feb. 28 a presidential policy directive (.pdf) containing broad waivers to a law requiring mandatory military detention of non-citizen al Qaeda terrorists captured inside the
COPS program can't plug local budget holes, says Melekian
Justice Department grants for community policing cannot be used to plug budget gaps at a local level, said Bernard Melekian, director of the DOJ office of community oriented policing services, aka
DOJ argues for warrantless cell phone records
The federal government argues in a brief (.pdf) submitted Feb. 15 to the fifth circuit court of appeals that it doesn't need a warrant to in order to obtain 60 days' worth of historical cell phone
