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• Stealth Tech, Facebook Revolutions, Shadow Wars: The Most Dangerous Year Ever
  When 2011 began, Osama bin Laden was still alive, U.S. troops were still fighting in Iraq, and Iran could only dream about capturing our most advanced spy drone. By the end of the year, everything had flipped upside-down.
  12.28.11

• A Rocket For Christmas
  12.25.11

• Army Piles on Evidence in Final Arguments in WikiLeaks Hearing
  In closing arguments, the government continued to add evidence linking former intelligence analyst Bradley Manning to WikiLeaks, as Manning's attorney protests that the Army is overcharging his client in an attempt to get at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
  12.22.11

• U.S.: 'Lack of Trust' in Pakistanis Fueled Helo Disaster
  On the surface, the cause of the disastrous November U.S. helicopter mission that left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead was faulty maps and miscommunication. But the official U.S. investigation into the disaster points to deeper causes: the U.S. doesn't think it can trust its Pakistani counterparts with intel on its missions; and the Pakistanis stonewall the U.S. about their own operations.
  12.22.11

• Mozilla + Google: Browser Wars Are Really Search Wars by Proxy
  Five to 10 years ago, the most powerful force in web browsing was the maker of the operating system — then, overwhelmingly Microsoft. Today, it's the search and advertising engine — now, overwhelmingly Google.
  12.21.11

• It's Not a UFO, Just a Killer Drone for an Aircraft Carrier
  One downside to trucking a wrapped-up version of a killer drone from one side of the country to another: locals are going to think they've seen a captured UFO. Nope, just a futuristic X-47B, a flying robot the Navy hopes will one day take off and land on an aircraft carrier. You know, the kind you see every day on the highway.
  12.21.11

• #40dollars and No Mule: The White House and Social Media Strike Back
  12.21.11

• In WikiLeaks Case, Bradley Manning Faces the Hacker Who Turned Him In
  12.20.11

• North Korean Propaganda Totally Hearts 'Great Successor'
  No one outside Pyongyang has any idea who's really going to run North Korea now that "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il is dead. But North Korean official propaganda is all throwing its support behind his son, Kim Jong-un, the freshly dubbed "Great Successor."
  12.20.11

• Pakistan's Taliban Launches Jihad Against Sexting
  Usually, Pakistani terrorists hate cellphones because they're afraid of CIA snitches. But now they've got a new jihad: an anti-sexting crusade. The Pakistani Taliban has confiscated and burned over 300 cellphones for spreading "obscenity."
  12.19.11

• Jolt in WikiLeaks Case: Feds Found Manning-Assange Chat Logs on Laptop
  A government digital forensic examiner retrieved communications between accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and an online chat user identified on Manning¿s computer as ¿Julian Assange,¿ the name of the founder of the secret-spilling site that published hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables.
  12.19.11

• North Korea Fires Off Missile As Kim Jong-Il Dies
  The porno fetishist and nuke enthusiast who ran North Korea is dead. His twentysomething son now runs the world's most militarized state, without having served a day in uniform. So naturally North Korea launched off missiles on Monday morning, to tell the world: This is not the time to mess with it.
  12.19.11

• Newt Gingrich, Prophet of Nation Building
  12.19.11

• Manning Sent 'Collateral Murder' Video Links to Commanding Officer
  Former army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking the 'Collateral Murder' video to WikiLeaks, showed keen interest in the video to officers at his Iraq military base after the video was published online.
  12.18.11

• Video: Drone Watches Last U.S. Convoy Leave Iraq
  Video: Here's a drone's eye view of the final U.S. military convoys to leave Iraq. Over eight years after the U.S. began one of its most controversial wars, a flying robot loitered overhead to watch the military cross the Kuwait border.
  12.18.11

• Mobile Carriers Claim Consumer Consent to Carrier IQ Spying
  Two of the nation's largest wireless phone providers say their customers authorized them to secretly monitor their phone, thanks to the small print in the contracts millions have signed and few have read.
  12.16.11

• Review: Ghost Protocol Makes the Most of Impossible Mission
  12.16.11

• Manning Hearing Moves Forward Under a Cloud of Questions
  12.16.11

• Bradley Manning Case Advances Despite Defense Objections
  The lawyer for alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning threw a wrench into a military hearing on charges against Manning -- calling for the presiding officer to step down over conflicts of interest.
  12.16.11

• Space Planes, Psyops, Secret Prisons: 9 Secret Military Programs You Shouldn't Know
  Anyone who's tried to get information out of the Pentagon has heard it at least once: Sorry, that's classified. But we live in an age of disclosure. Even the military's most precious, sensitive, cherished hush-hush programs get leaked eventually. Here are nine of the craziest.
  12.16.11

• Hero Marine Drops Lawsuit Against Defense Giant
  12.15.11

• LAPD Bails on Google Apps Because of Security & Privacy Concerns
  The LAPD is backing out of a decision to migrate its email to Google Apps, citing security and privacy concerns.
  12.15.11

• Drones and Nuke Spying: a Match Made in the Heavens
  Why would the U.S. send its super-stealthy spy drone, the RQ-170 "Beast of Kandahar," to spy on suspected Iranian nuclear sites? Because the long, long stares of secret drones are perfect for observing the subtle patterns of movement that reveal a hidden nuke program -- something that spy satellites aren't that good at.
  12.15.11

• Iraq's Garbage Holds Reminders of a U.S. Massacre
  12.15.11

• WikiLeaks in Court: What to Look for in Bradley Manning's Hearing
  Bradley Manning, charged with leaking millions of U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks, will get his first day in court Friday as the military will take days to outline the evidence it has that he damaged national security. Here's what to expect from the proceedings.
  12.15.11

• Darpa: Use Tobacco to Save Soldiers From Nerve Gas
  Here's a new idea from Darpa to combat the convulsions, choking and diarrhea that come with a nerve-gas attack. The Pentagon's blue-sky researchers want to harvest ersatz human liver enzymes to increase immune-system resilience -- after, um, growing them inside tobacco plants.
  12.15.11

• Warning to Gossipy Grunts: Darpa's Eyeing Your E-Mails
  The Pentagon's far-out research agency is freaked out about insider threats -- like the next Wikileaker or the next Fort Hood shooter. So it's putting together a massive project to find, log and report anomalous or unauthorized data usage inside the military. Be careful what you say, text or type on a military network.
  12.15.11