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  • Obama to Share Missile Defense Secrets With Russia?

    01/05/2012 11:19:30 AM PST · by ColdOne · 64 replies · 1+ views
    BigPeace.com ^ | 1/4/12 | Joel B. Pollak
    Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports that President Barack Obama has indicated he is prepared to convey information about secret American missile defense technology to Russia: In the president’s signing statement issued Saturday in passing into law the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill, Mr. Obama said restrictions aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on U.S. Standard Missile-3 velocity burnout parameters might impinge on his constitutional foreign policy authority. As first disclosed in this space several weeks ago, U.S. officials are planning to provide Moscow with the SM-3 data, despite reservations from security officials who say that doing so could...
  • Immigration crackdown leads to arrests at Sikorsky

    01/08/2003 6:49:52 AM PST · by Fixit · 1 replies · 279+ views
    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- An immigration crackdown has led to the arrests of several illegal aliens working for subcontractors at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford. Seven suspects, five men and two women, were brought into U.S. District Court shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday, charged with misusing Social Security numbers and having false alien registration cards. ... the seven were turned over to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. The seven work for subcontractors ... All had obtained security clearance badges by allegedly using false information, authorities said. As a result, they had access to classified areas and possibly sensitive materials. However, none...
  • DOE to fine weapons labs if data leaked : U.S. schedules hearings on proposed civil penalties

    04/06/2002 10:01:24 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 3 replies · 310+ views
    The Oakland Tribune ^ | Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 3:13:21 AM MST | Glenn Roberts Jr.
    Energy Department officials plan two public hearings over policies designed to levy civil fines on nuclear weapons sites for secrets divulged by their employees. An amendment to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, approved in 1999 as part of a defense bill, created civil penalties of up to $100,000 per violation for the unauthorized release of "restricted data" or "formerly restricted data." An April 1 announcement in the Federal Register, a daily publication for federal government rules and notices, states that hearings will be held May 22 and 29 on the proposed rules governing the civil penalties. As proposed,...