CIA’s Secret UK Bank Trawl May Be Illegal “A covert programme under which confidential information about British banking transactions is passed to the CIA with the full knowledge of the government may breach both British and European law, the Guardian has learned. The information commissioner, who is responsible for enforcing the Data Protection Act, is investigating the arrangement, which has seen details of computerised transactions from around the world passed to the CIA in an attempt to spy on the financiers of jihadist terrorism.” (Guardian)Copeland Lowery Acknowledges More Mistaken Reports “A now-defunct lobbying firm under federal investigation has acknowledged that it failed to report some $260,000 in lobbying fees between 2002 and 2005, according to records filed in recent days in the Secretary of the Senate’s Office. The firm, Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton and White had already acknowledged underreporting some $1.4 million in fees.” (National Journal)
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