Earth and space science missions developed by federal agencies in collaboration become more complex, costly and risky due to divided responsibilities and accountability, according to a new research.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Nov 27, 2010
Citigroup's private banking arm has set up a global unit to target family offices, organizations that manage the financial affairs of rich dynasties, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 01, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Ever wonder why overhearing a cellphone conversation is so annoying? American researchers think they have found the answer.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 20, 2010
Corrects spelling of researcher's surname
IBT Staff Reporter
May 20, 2010
Ever wonder why overhearing a cellphone conversation is so annoying? American researchers think they have found the answer.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 20, 2010
The United States is losing enough data in cyber attacks to fill the Library of Congress many times over, and authorities have failed to stay ahead of the threat, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 12, 2010
The British government failed on Wednesday in a legal challenge to keep secret U.S. intelligence material relating to allegations of cruel and inhuman treatment involving the CIA.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 10, 2010
President Barack Obama took ultimate responsibility on Thursday for security failures that led to the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner and ordered reforms aimed at thwarting future attacks.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 08, 2010
U.S. President Barack Obama is not patient and is demanding immediate changes in airline security, the top U.S. military officer said on Wednesday, as a grand jury indicted the Nigerian man for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 06, 2010
A top White House official said on Sunday the plot to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day exposed errors but he played down the need for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. security system.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 04, 2010
The CIA vowed on Thursday to avenge the deaths of seven officers in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and to investigate security breaches that allowed the second deadliest attack in agency history.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 31, 2009
President Barack Obama Thursday summoned U.S. intelligence chiefs to a meeting next week to discuss how to prevent a repeat of the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 31, 2009
Last week's failed plot to bomb a U.S. passenger jet has exposed lingering fissures within the U.S. intelligence community, which had information from interviews and clandestine intercepts but did not put the pieces together, officials said.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 31, 2009
The United States is looking at ways to expand military and intelligence cooperation with the government of Yemen to step up a crackdown on al Qaeda militants believed to be behind a failed plot to blow up a U.S. passenger jet, American officials said on Wednesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 30, 2009
An Italian judge sentenced 23 Americans to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric, in a symbolic condemnation of the CIA rendition flights used by the former U.S. government.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 05, 2009
An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against rendition flights used by the former U.S. government.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 04, 2009
The House Intelligence Committee said on Friday it was launching a formal investigation into the concealment of a secret CIA program from Congress that one senator said was withheld on orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 17, 2009
The U.S. Justice Department delayed again the release of an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program during the Bush Administration.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 02, 2009
U.S. intelligence Chief Leon Panetta said on Thursday he believes that al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is still hiding in Pakistan and the CIA hopes to find him through joint operations with Pakistani forces.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 11, 2009
A former U.S. State Department official and his wife were arrested on charges of serving as agents of Cuba for nearly 30 years and conspiring to provide classified U.S. information to the Cuban government, the Department of Justice announced on Friday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 05, 2009
The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday got into a public dispute with the CIA over what she knew about harsh interrogation techniques in 2002 in the latest twist in a Washington political firestorm.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 14, 2009
President Obama convenes his first formal Cabinet meeting Monday and asked department and agency chiefs to find way to cut $100 million out of the federal budget over the next 90 days, a senior administration official said.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 20, 2009
