NEW YORK (AP) – Brooklyn College faculty have passed a resolution condemning the New York Police Department’s effort to infiltrate Muslim student groups.
The college’s Faculty Council voted unanimously to condemn the practice, part of a broad intelligence-gathering operation that the NYPD has built in the last decade with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The CIA is now investigating whether its agents broke the law by spying on Americans.
The Faculty Council passed the resolution on Sept. 13. College spokesman Jeremy Thompson confirmed the resolution’s passage Monday. He said that college president Karen Gould shared the professors’ concerns.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – About 300,000 Internet users in Iran have been spied on last month by one or several hackers who stole security certificates from a Dutch IT firm, a report presented by the Dutch government said on Monday.
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BANGKOK (AFP) – A Thai court on Tuesday jailed three men, a Cambodian, a Vietnamese and a local, for two years each for espionage, officials said.
The trio were arrested in June in Kantharalak District, near the disputed border with Cambodia, amid a bitter land dispute between Thailand and its neighbour.
Police said at the time that they were carrying maps with military facilities marked on them, and two of the men were using the illegal stimulant methamphetamine.
The Thai was jailed for two years and four months while the Cambodian was handed two years and three months and the Vietnamese received two years, Kantharalak District Court Director Thongchanai Kothajit said by telephone.
Sept. 6, 2011: Exterior view of the building housing Internet security firm DigiNotar in Beverwijk, north-western Netherlands. Dutch prosecutors say they are investigating DigiNotar for possible criminal negligence after it was slow to disclose a hacking incident that compromised dozens of websites and likely helped the Iranian government spy on dissidents for a month.
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7 September 2011
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Nozette was accused of seeking millions of dollars to sell classified information
A former government scientist charged with attempting to sell technology secrets to Israel has confessed to one count of attempted espionage.
Stewart Nozette is expected to serve a sentence of 13 years in prison after making a plea deal with prosecutors.
He has been in jail since his arrest in 2009 after a sting operation by an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer.
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