*News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government*
02 Jul 2009
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*Heads up! The Obusha pre-holiday Friday afternoon environmental/human
rights bad news dump is starting to dump a day early! Obama Administration
to Involve NSA in Screening Civilian Agency
Networks<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR200...>
* 02 Jul 2009* The Obama regime will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use
National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic
on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site*, according to
three current and former government officials. President Obama said in May
that government efforts to protect computer systems from attack would not
involve *"monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic."* Under a
classified pilot program approved during the Bush regime, NSA data and
hardware would be used to 'protect' the networks of some civilian government
agencies. Part of an initiative known as Einstein 3, the pilot called for
telecommunications companies to route the Internet traffic of civilian
government agencies through a monitoring box that would search for and block
malicious computer codes... The pilot was to have been launched in February.
"To be clear, Einstein 3 development is proceeding," DHS spokeswoman Amy
Kudwa said.
*Lawsuit accuses Xe contractors of murder, kidnapping, child
prostitution<http://hamptonroads.com/2009/07/lawsuit-now-accuses-xe-contractors-mu...>
*02 Jul 2009 A just-amended lawsuit alleges six additional instances of
unprovoked attacks on Iraqi civilians by Blackwater mercenaries. Three
people, including a 9-year-old boy, are said to have died. Also added to the
suit is a racketeering count accusing *Blackwater founder Erik Prince of
running an ongoing criminal enterprise involved in, among other
things, kidnapping
and child prostitution*. The latest charges, filed this week in U.S.
District Court in Alexandria, bring to more than 60 the number of Iraqis
allegedly killed or wounded since 2005 by armed Blackwater mercenaries
guarding U.S. diplomatic personnel in Iraq. The Moyock, N.C.-based security
company, since renamed Xe, earned more than $1 billion under that contract
before the State Department, under pressure from the Iraqi government, let
it lapse in May.
*Senate Investigates Blackwater
Subsidiary<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/01/cbsnews_investigates/main51...>
*01 Jul 2009 The Senate Armed Services Committee is investigating the
mercenary firm Paravant LLC which provides contracted services to the U.S.
Army in Afghanistan and Iraq. Paravant is a subsidiary of Xe, formerly known
as Blackwater, owned by Erik D. Prince, president of The Prince Group.
Steven McClain and Justin Cannon, two former Paravant security personnel
stationed in Afghanistan, were involved in a fatal shooting incident that
left one Afghan civilian dead and two others wounded in Kabul on May 5,
2009.
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