Archive for the ‘Security News’ Category


Facebook’s IPO movie better than ‘Social Network’

A short documentary now playing on the Internet is the best movie about Mark Zuckerberg yet. It’s studded with clues to the workings of Zuckerberg’s brain, and possibly even clues to the future of Facebook, which makes its initial public stock offering on Friday. The film is called “Facebook IPO Roadshow,” and it runs a [...]

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Super PAC shelves Obama-Wright ads after outcry

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama‘s former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic. An aide to Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, said the proposal to draw the Rev. Jeremiah Wright [...]

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John Edwards’ mistress paid $9K a month

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Records introduced Tuesday at John Edwards‘ corruption trial show his campaign finance chairman paid the candidate’s mistress a $9,000 monthly cash allowance, on top of other living and travel expenses. Wealthy Texas lawyer Fred Baron is one of two political supporters who combined gave about $1 million to help hide Edwards’ [...]

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The character test: What can we really know about a president?

Take a step back from the “Mitt Romney, Teen Bully” dust-up, and ask yourself why The Washington Post spent 5,500 words delving into the details of Romney’s prep-school days, or why Barack Obama’s youthful romances garnered so much attention when excerpts from David Maraniss’ biography appeared in Vanity Fair. Apart from voyeuristic curiosity, these excursions [...]

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Secret Service sex scandal hearings set

Sullivan arrives on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee hearing on a White House … The chairmen of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committees leading a probe of the Secret Service said on Sunday that they plan to hold a May 23 Congressional hearing on the prostitution scandal that rocked the [...]

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John Edwards’ mistress led a tabloid-grade life

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Rielle Hunter‘s life had a lurid, supermarket-tabloid quality to it — full of deception, betrayal, reckless behavior and broken dreams — well before she became a party to one of the biggest lies in recent American political history. Her father had her beloved show horse killed for insurance money. An ex-boyfriend [...]

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John Edwards judge refuses to dismiss charges

A federal judge today rejected defense lawyers’ arguments that the case against John Edwards should be thrown out because there “was not one ounce of evidence” that the former presidential candidate broke the law by using nearly $1 million in donations to hide his mistress. Instead, Edwards’ lawyer Abbe Lowell said the disgraced former senator [...]

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