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5 TSA Workers Put on Leave Following Screening Manual Leak
The Department of Homeland Security has placed five transportation security employees on leave following the inadvertent leak of a sensitive manual detailing security procedures for screening passengers at airports. The workers, all employees of the Transportation Security Administration, were put on administrative leave while an investigation is being conducted into how the security breach occurred, according to the Associated Press. The TSA manual was posted at a government procurement site last March by a private government contractor and was uncovered by a blogger on Sunday.
Continue reading »Border guards grill Goodman on 2010 Olympics
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Canadian border guards have a new role . Censorship interrogators. Amy Goodman, host of the independent US radio show Democracy Now, can tell you all about it.
Continue reading »Baker in trouble over Poppy Day Poppyrights
“You would not believe the misuses of the poppy we have to investigate,” Butt says. ‘Butt’ is Royal Canadian Legion spokesman Bob Butt, and he’s quoted in a Toronto Sun story on how the Dutch Oven Bakery in Coburg, Ontario, crossed bayonets with the legion over, Yes, alleged copyright infringement. It’d been “fulfilling the order of some poppy cookies for the family of a fallen Canadian soldier from the Afghanistan conflict,” says the story.
Continue reading »China Tweeters remember Tiananmen
According to a Harvard report , Twitter may not be all it’s said up to be. But there’s no question it’s a communications force to be reckoned with. Even the US Army says so.
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