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June 10, 2013 It’s Where You Live! Volume 105, No. 138
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Report: NSA source revealed WASHINGTON (AP) — A 29-year-old contractor who claims to have worked at the National Security Agency and the CIA was revealed Sunday as the source of disclosures about the U.S. government’s secret surveillance programs, risking prosecution by the U.S. government. The leaks have reopened the post-Sept. 11 debate about privacy concerns versus heightened measure to protect against terrorist attacks, and led the NSA to ask the Justice Department to conduct a criminal investigation into the leaks. The Guardian, the first paper to disclose the docu-
Fires prompt highway closure A wildfire in northern New Mexico prompted a section of state highway to be closed after embers crossed a protection line and caused the blaze to grow. The growth in the Thompson Ridge fire burning in the Valle Caldera National Preserve and the Santa Fe National Forest near Jemez Springs led to the closure of New Mexico Highway 4 from the junction at Route 126 to the junction at State Route 501. See Page 9.
Men wielding batons and wearing yellow arm bands evoking Lebanon’s Hezbollah attacked protesters outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Sunday during a rally against the militant group’s participation in the Syrian civil war. One protester was killed, a senior Lebanese military official and witnesses said. See Page 10.
Flood insurance rates expected to skyrocket George Kasimos has almost finished repairing flood damage to his waterfront home, but his Superstorm Sandy nightmare is far from over. See Page 12.
A HISTORY OF LEAKS Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old American intelligence analyst, has revealed himself as the source who disclosed the U.S. government’s secret phone and Internet surveillance programs. Some other famous leakers in recent history: DANIEL ELLSBERG A military analyst, he passed the Pentagon Papers a secret Defense Department study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam on to The New York Times and other newspapers in 1971. W. MARK FELT An associate director at the FBI, he was Deep Throat, the source who gave information about Watergate to The Washington Post in the 1970s. He unmasked himself in 2005.
MORDECHAI VANUNU He was an Israeli nuclear technician in 1986 when he revealed Israel’s nuclear weapons program. He served 18 years in prison. FREDERIC WHITEHURST Beginning in 1992, the FBI agent exposed shoddy work and inaccurate testimony from the bureau’s crime lab. JEFFREY WIGAND A Brown & Williamson tobacco executive, he cooperated with CBS’ “60 Minutes” and the Food and Drug Administration in the 1990s in exposing cigarette manufacturers’ practices. BRADLEY MANNING The U.S. Army private gave a trove of classified military and diplomatic material to WikiLeaks. His court-martial is underway at Fort Meade, Md.
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — It may not have been Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s Cold War walk by a frozen lake in Switzerland. But President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s 50-minute stroll through an estate in the California desert could mark a notable moment in the relationship between the heads of the world’s two largest economies. At the very least, it was a rare opportunity Saturday for the presidents to dispense with their advisers and coats and ties in the scorching heat for extended one-onone talks. Tom Donilon, Obama’s national security adviser who helped orchestrate the two-day summit, said the walk was an important moment “to establish and deepen their personal relaSUBMITTED PHOTOS tionship” and address “the Kathy Slack, left, and Kim Heim are nationally-recognized figure skating range of issues that we judges. The mother-daughter duo will judge the Troy Skating Club’s annual have to address.” It’s a big list that summer competition this year. includes cyberspying and intellectual property theft and North Korea’s nuclear provocations, as well as economic competition and climate change. There were no policy breakthroughs as Obama and Xi sauntered across the manicured lawns of the Sunnylands estate or when If you know someone they sat on the California who should be profiled redwood bench that in our Next Door feaBY COLIN FOSTER TROY Obama had custom-made ture, contact City Associate Sports Editor as a gift for his Chinese Editor Melody Vallieu colinfoster@civitasmedia.com counterpart. But both at 440-6265, or send “The Troy Summer countries appeared to Competition draws all lev- her an email at mvalThe Gentleman of the leave California pleased lieu@civitasmedia.com Road Tour coming to Troy els of skating and will that the issues were include solo dance and has been making headaddressed candidly and the lines and generating buzz pair skating, in addition groundwork was laid for technical official to disto singles skating,” Heim … future talks. cuss the elements and said. “The competition That, however, isn’t the The leaders “did not shy offers all levels of compet- program components of only big event coming to away from differences,” each skater’s program. itive skating from the Troy this summer. The critiques will focus on said Yang Jiechi, Xi’s senOn the weekend of July skating with us and the areas where improve- ior foreign policy adviser, beginner levels through 11, hundreds of skaters adding that Obama and Xi ment is needed for their the senior level. The 6.0 from all over will arrive at “blazed a new trail” in the Hobart Arena to compete judging system is used for levels of skating. relationship between their “For many skaters in the lower levels and the in the 38th Annual Troy countries. the Eastern Great Lakes International Judging Summer Competition … Obama and Xi held region, our Troy Summer System is used for the with a twist. more than eight hours of Competition kicks off the higher levels. National Born-and-raised Troy talks over the course of the and international officials summer skating season, resident Kathy Slack, a two-day summit, which will be brought in to judge which is also the official highly-respected United closed Saturday afternoon. start of the 2013-2014 the skaters, coming from States national figure skating season that starts The leaders found common as far as Colorado and skating judge who will with the regional champi- ground in their frustraserve as a team leader for Texas.” tions over North Korea’s onships in October, then Heim went on to the United States provocations and on clicontinues with the secexplain that the event Olympic Figure Skating mate change, agreeing to tional championships in offers a more personal Team on their journey to work together to reduce Sochi, Russia in 2014, and form of critiquing for par- November and ends with the use of hydrofluorocarthe national champiticipants with hopes of daughter Kim Heim, a bons, a potent greenhouse onships in January. The competing at the regional 1986 Troy High School gas used in refrigerators, level. Upon the conclusion Olympic team will be graduate, will serve as air conditioners and indusselected at the U.S. Figure of their routines, the judges and bring their trial applications. Skating Championships regional level competitors skating background to use But there was no accord and their coaches will as boys and girls of all meet with a judge and a ages perform routines. • See SKATE on Page 2 over cybersecurity, which U.S. officials see as per-
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ments, said it was publishing the identity of Edward Snowden, a former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, at his own request. “My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them,” Snowden told the newspaper. Stories in The Guardian and The Washington Post published over the last week revealed two surveillance programs. One of them is a phone
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OBAMA-XI HIGHLIGHTS Highlights of issues President Barack Obama discussed with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a weekend summit, as described by White House national security adviser Tom Donilon during a briefing Saturday for U.S. and Chinese media after the talks had concluded: • Cybersecurity: Obama described the types of problems the U.S. has faced from cyber intrusions and intellectual property theft officials believe is coming from inside China. He requested that the Chinese government “engage” on the issue as well as understand that that type of activity is inconsistent with the relationship the U.S. desires to build with China. • North Korea: The presidents agreed that North Korea must denuclearize; neither president will accept North Korea as a nucleararmed state. • Economic issues: Were discussed, largely in the context of cybersecurity. • Human rights: Aides had said before the meeting that Obama would raise the issue with Xi; Donilon offered no details on what was said. • China-Japan tension: Obama points to Xi were that both sides should seek to de-escalate tensions and communicate through diplomatic channels. • Military-to-military ties: Were discussed, continue to be part of U.S.-China discussions. haps the most pressing issue facing the two nations. Obama confronted Xi with specific evidence of intellectual property theft the U.S. says is emanating from China. Xi said China was also a victim of cyberattacks but did not publicly acknowledge his own country’s alleged activities. It remains to be seen whether the private discussion that took place during the Sunnylands walk will land a place in
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