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President Trump is moving to revive the watchdog agency that oversees major surveillance programs, but some privacy advocates see his pick to lead it as overly deferential to the intelligence community. Adam Klein, nominated Friday to serve as chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, has taken sides in one of the biggest policy debates this year: whether authorities need a warrant to search American communications collected "incidentally" under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires later this year unless Congress acts.

An American woman diplomat, who was allegedly involved with an espionage network in the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), has left India, informed sources said in New Delhi on Monday night. The diplomat Rosanne Minchew, who was allegedly receiving information from arrested NSCS official SS Paul has left India after the Government took up the issue with the US authorities, the sources said. The diplomat was understood to have been associated with Indo-US Cyber Security Forum, a joint initiative of the two countries to fight international terrorism. When contacted, a US Embassy spokesman said "no comments". The spy ring came...

In a bow to the rise of Internet-era secrets hidden in plain view, the agency has started hosting Web logs with the latest information on topics including North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il's public visit to a military installation -- his 38th this year -- and the Burmese media's silence on a ministry reshuffling. It even has a blog on blogs, dedicated to cracking the code of what useful information can be gleaned from the rapidly expanding milieu of online journals and weird electronic memorabilia warehoused on the Net. The blogs are posted on an unclassified, government-wide Web site, part...

We are Ignoring and excepting what is happing to us in the united states of america. We think it is exceptable to have camera's watching us and to a degree it is ok. I live in a small town though and we have had camera's on every street light put up in our town on our main street, that is posted in every direction.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A man caught on tape smoking marijuana in a car is the first person arrested because of new police cameras installed in high-crime areas, according to the department. Marcus Jackson, 22, was arrested Saturday and charged with felony and misdemeanor drug possession. Besides the pot, Jackson was also carrying $60 worth of the club drug ecstasy, police said. Jackson was freed on $40,000 bond. He is due in court Sept. 3. Jackson's arrest and the camera that caught him are part of a new plan for ending the crime that blights some neighborhoods in Chicago. He was...