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Ex-FBI Linguist Gets 20 Months in Prison For Leaking Info to Blogger

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An ex-FBI contract linguist with top security clearance is headed off to prison for one year and eight months for leaking classified documents to a blogger. U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams in Greenbelt, Md. sentenced Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, aka Samuel Shamai Leibowitz, 40, of Silver Spring, Md., and ordered…

Homeland Security May Search the Internet for Terrorist Threats

allan16 years ago02 mins

The Internet has become the wild wild west and Homeland Security wants to be the sheriff. Can the agency pull that off? Is the universe small enough to police? By Thomas Frank USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department may soon start scouring the Internet to find blogs and message boards that terrorists use…