MSNBC cuts off Congresswoman talking about NSA to report on Justin Bieber

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Screenshot from youtube video by user jonmanization

A US government privacy board dubs the NSA’s phone calls hoarding illegal and calls to shut… wait, it’s Justin Bieber. And so the Congresswoman being interviewed was dumped mid-sentence to report the “breaking news” of Bieber’s DUI arrest.

On Thursday, the MSNBC put out a report by the

Congress members exploiting legal loophole for luxury travel on lobbyists’ dime – report

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Sen. Kelly Ayotte Mark (Wilson / Getty Images / AFP)

Despite a number of laws forbidding them from accepting gifts from lobbyists, congressional leaders regularly exploit legal loopholes to jet-set throughout the country on lobbyists’ expense, according to a new report.

Members of Congress have taken trips to California’s Napa Wine Valley, Col

Corrupt Britain: Organized crime infiltrates key institutions – report

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AFP Photo / Carl Court

A secret report spanning many years, which was seen by The Independent, reportedly shows a shocking level of corruption in the Metropolitan Police, the judicial system, the Crown Prosecution Service, HM Revenue & Customs, and the Prison Service.

In 2003, Operation Tiberius – an undercover Scotland Yard probe – found that organized crime gangs had c

Snowden obtained nearly 2 million classified files in NSA leak – Pentagon report

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Edward Snowden.(AFP Photo / Wikileaks)
Edward Snowden.(AFP Photo / Wikileaks)

Edward Snowden downloaded 1.7 million intelligence files from US agencies, the most secrets ever to be stolen from the US government in a single instance in the nation’s history, according to lawmakers who have viewed a classified Pentagon report.

Legislators who saw the secret report claimed that many of the documents taken by Sno

France-UAE satellite deal shaky after US spy tech discovered onboard – report

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Pleiades satellite.(Image from smsc.cnes.fr)
Pleiades satellite (Image from smsc.cnes.fr)

The sale of two intelligence satellites to the UAE by France for nearly a billion dollars could go south after they were found to contain American technology designed to intercept data transmitted to the ground station.

The equipment, costing 3.4 billion dirhams ($930 million), constitutes two high-resolution Pleiades-type