Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- July 9, 2013


Broken antenna covers of Former National Security Agency (NSA) listening station are seen at the Teufelsberg hill (German for Devil's Mountain) in Berlin, June 30. The revelations of alleged U.S. surveillance programmes have raised a political furore in the United States and abroad. (REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski)

Germany Defends 'Strictly Legal' Cooperation With NSA -- Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel's government said on Monday that its cooperation with American intelligence was fully regulated by strict legal guidelines after a magazine reported that the U.S. National Security Agency was in close cahoots with German spies.

Germany's opposition, with an eye on September's election, when the chancellor will seek a third term, demanded that her government explain how much it knew about U.S. surveillance tactics ahead of talks with Washington about the NSA.

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

Edward Snowden: US surveillance 'not something I'm willing to live under' -- The Guardian

How the NSA Could Hack (Almost) Any Browser -- War Is Boring

Insider Threat: Snowden Incident Returns Spotlight to Employee Danger -- Defense News

US, China Open First Meeting to Ease Cyber Disputes -- Voice of America

Exclusive: Congress delaying U.S. aid to Syrian rebels - sources -- Reuters

Report says US Bin Laden raid 'an act of war' -- Al Jazeera

Japan says faces increasing threats from China, North Korea -- Reuters

South Korean Navy Pursues Anti-Sub Aviation Boost -- Aviation Week

Iran to unveil new missiles, drones -- Trend

Former Cypriot Defense Minister Guilty Over Blast -- AP

Joint China-Russia Exercise More Political Than Military -- Mark Adomanis, USNI

Latest U.S. Missile Defense Test An Embarrassing Failure -- Aviation Week

Pentagon Confidence Not Shaken by Missile Interceptor Test Failures -- ABC News

Northrop Grumman prepares to build five E-2D Advanced Hawkeye carrier-based aircraft -- Military & Aerospace news

Hydrogen fuel cells may power future submarines -- Hydrogen Fuel News

U.S. Border Agency Allows Others to Use Its Drones -- New York Times

Pentagon Begins Furloughs for 650,000 Civilians -- Defense News/AFP

NYPD, Brookhaven Releasing Harmless Gases in Subway for Chemical Weapon Study -- NBC

Secret move keeps bin Laden records in the shadows -- AP

Court Rejects State Secrets Defense in Dragnet Surveillance Case -- Threat Level

App links struggling veterans with nearby network of military friends -- Stars and Stripes

Fort Hood Amps up Security as Murder Trial Nears -- Military.com/AP

Fort Hood attack: jury selection begins in trial of US officer accused of killing 13 -- The Guardian

U.S. soldier in WikiLeaks case had free access to secret files -- Reuters

At Navy Installation, Sexual Assault Prevention Begins at Boot Camp -- New York Times

Military Study Exposes Pentagon’s Failure to Account for Americans MIA -- NPR

Washington Post takes a look at Pentagon propaganda -- USA Today

Psst, Congress: You Don’t Really Know Sequestration’s Bite -- Mackenzie Eaglen, Breaking Defense

The Wrong-Headed Reasons Why People Believe The Worst About The Defense Industry -- Loren Thompson, Forbes

The Classic Military Runaround: Your tax dollars at work keeping you in the dark. -- Nick Turse, The Nation

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