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From Washington’s Blog:
We noted in March that all U.S. intelligence agencies – including the CIA and NSA – are going to spy on Americans’ finances.
The IRS is joining the fun.
U.S. News and World Report notes today:
[The IRS] will use in robo-audits and data mining [and] it has told government and industry groups that its computers are capable of scanning multiple networks at the same time to collect “matching” comprehensive profiles [...]
by WashingtonsBlog
More and More People Are Staring Into Our Fishbowl
We noted in March that all U.S. intelligence agencies – including the CIA and NSA – are going to spy on Americans’ finances.
The IRS is joining the fun.
U.S. News and World Report notes today:
[The IRS] will use in robo-audits and data mining [and] it has told government and industry groups that its computers are capable of scanning multiple networks at the same time to collect “matching” comprehensive [...]
Nearly four weeks after the Secret Service prostitution scandal erupted, U.S. government investigators interviewed the Colombian prostitute at the center of the affair.
Dania Londono Suarez voluntarily met with investigators at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid on Thursday, a month after the scandal erupted and cost eight officers and supervisors their jobs.
The reason that it took so long for investigators to finally sit down with Ms Londono is because she mysteriously [...]
Even without passing new legislation regulating what Americans can and can’t do on the Web, recently unsealed court records reveal that federal authorities took down a music website for one year without ever filing charges.
A federal court in Los Angeles has released documents relating to a case against a music site, Dajaz1.com, that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) took offline back in 2010. At the time, government [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Electronic industry officials say counterfeit parts flooding the Pentagon supply chain are a “ticking time bomb.”
The officials along with government investigators and company executives testified Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The panel is conducting an ongoing investigation into suspect electronics from China that end up in weapons systems, helicopters and aircraft.
Sen. Carl Levin, the committee chairman, said China declined to send a witness to answer [...]
WASHINGTON — The nation’s push to computerize medical records has failed to fully address longstanding security gaps that expose patients’ most sensitive information to hackers and snoops, government investigators warn.
Two reports released Tuesday by the inspector general of the Health and Human Services Department find that the drive to connect hospitals and doctors so they can share patient data electronically is being layered on [...]
The U.S. Medicare program improperly spent more than $3 million in 2007 and 2008 to buy Pfizer Inc. (PFE)’s Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs for senior citizens, government investigators said.
The purchases violated a 2005 ban on covering the drugs under the U.S. health program for the elderly and disabled. Medicare administrators blamed the spending on a software error and said they would try to recover payments to private insurers [...]
The new revelations came to light after government investigators turned up new emails from Goldman employee Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Tourre in which he bragged to a girlfriend
that the firm was taking a “big short” position on the Gulf.
“One oil rig goes down and we’re going to be rolling in dough,” Mr. Tourre wrote in one email. “Suck it, fishies and birdies!”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/goldman-sachs-reveals-it_b_558774.html
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – In what is looming as another public relations predicament for Goldman Sachs, the banking giant admitted today that it made “a substantial financial bet against the Gulf of Mexico” one day before the sinking of an oil rig in that body of water.
The new revelations came to light after government investigators turned up new emails from Goldman employee Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Tourre in which [...]
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