Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/24/nine-years-after-9-11-intelligence-sharing-is-still-hobbled 2010-09-24T22:41:00Z

More than nine years after 9/11, America’s intelligence-sharing system continues to be impeded by legal and technical difficulties. As a result, important intelligence reports may be slow to reach those officials who could to take action on them. One such problem surfaced in Congress earlier this week: a glitch in the wording of the Freedom of Information Act.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/17/how-serious-is-the-alleged-london-pope-plot 2010-09-17T17:22:00Z

U.S. officials are downplaying the seriousness of a possible threat related to the visit to London by Pope Benedict XVI. News of the alleged threat surfaced on Friday when London's Metropolitan Police Service, a.k.a. Scotland Yard, issued a statement confirming that counterterrorism investigators had arrested five men early Friday morning "on suspicion of the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism."

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/17/fbi-sting-nabs-nuclear-scientist 2010-09-17T17:15:00Z

An FBI sting operation has led to the arrest of an Argentine-born “rogue” U.S. nuclear scientist who once worked in the weapons division at Los Alamos, the New Mexico lab that designs and develops America’s atomic arsenal.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/16/with-no-qurans-burned-anti-american-ire-recedes 2010-09-16T16:45:00Z

Scattered, violent anti-American protests in Islamic countries have been reported over the last few days, but U.S. government counterterrorism experts say the absence of any inflammatory televised images of Qurans being burned during recent 9/11 commemorations mean that such demonstrations should soon fizzle.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/13/another-secret-iranian-uranium-enrichment-facility 2010-09-13T20:00:00Z

Nuclear-proliferation experts are expressing deep skepticism regarding a controversial Iranian exile group’s claims that Iran is building a new secret underground uranium-enrichment site not far from Tehran.

John Barry /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/10/a-new-weapon-in-the-war-on-terror 2010-09-10T23:49:00Z

The land battle in Afghanistan grinds on, but the drone war is accelerating. So far this year there have been 62 reported strikes against Afghan Taliban and affiliated insurgent groups in Pakistan. This compares with 53 strikes in 2009 and 35 in 2008, according to local media and the Pakistani military.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/10/new-york-cops-prepare-to-handle-rival-9-11-demos 2010-09-10T19:00:00Z

At least six separate groups are planning demonstrations Saturday for and against the proposed Islamic cultural center near the site of the 9/11 attacks, say law enforcers in New York City. Nevertheless, the New York Police Department and other agencies are well prepared, and authorities are not expecting major trouble.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/09/exclusive-wikileaks-collaborating-with-media-outlets-on-release-of-iraq-documents 2010-09-09T18:32:00Z

A London-based journalism nonprofit is working with the WikiLeaks Web site and TV and print media in several countries on programs and stories based on what is described as massive cache of classified U.S. military field reports related to the Iraq War.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/08/fbi-keeping-watch-on-quran-burning-threat 2010-09-08T22:12:00Z

The FBI has begun to collect information relating to a plan by a radical Christian pastor in Florida to stage a public Quran burning on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this Saturday.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/08/no-let-up-in-secret-drone-war 2010-09-08T16:15:00Z

Three reported attacks with drone-borne missiles on Wednesday serve as a reminder that an intense secret U.S. air campaign is continuing against alleged terrorist targets in Pakistan's tribal regions.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/07/mystery-surrounding-death-of-u-k-code-breaker-deepens 2010-09-07T17:30:00Z

A statement released by Scotland Yard on Monday and posted on the Web site of the London Metropolitan Police Service reveals more details about the peculiar death of Gareth Williams, a 31-year-old mathematics wizard who worked for Britain's electronic-eavesdropping agency, but sheds no light on possible causes.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/04/efforts-afoot-to-oust-assange-as-wikileaks-leader 2010-09-04T08:00:00Z

As frontman for wikileaks.org, Julian Assange, the floppy-haired Australian computer hacker, has become an internationally celebrated advocate for would-be whistle-blowers.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/09/01/rape-probe-of-wikileaks-chief-reopened 2010-09-01T10:30:00Z

A senior prosecutor in Sweden on Wednesday announced she is reopening an official investigation into a rape allegation against Julian Assange, the Australian cofounder of the whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks. She also said a parallel investigation into allegations of "molestation" by Assange will not only continue but also apparently be expanded.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/08/31/decision-in-wikileaks-sex-probe-might-come-wednesday 2010-08-31T14:30:00Z

A senior Swedish prosecutor is expected to announce Wednesday whether she believes there is sufficient evidence to continue to pursue a sex-related investigation of Julian Assange, the Australian frontman for the whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/08/31/questions-remain-in-suspicious-luggage-inquiry 2010-08-31T14:00:00Z

U.S. authorities are still not sure what the bottom line is in an investigation that led to the detention in the Netherlands on Monday of two Yemeni men who were trying to fly from the U.S. to their homeland. American officials said evidence is accumulating that the men did not know each other before they were arrested by Dutch authorities.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/08/30/mosque-protest-leader-defends-u-k-group-that-clashed-with-riot-police 2010-08-30T14:30:00Z

A leader in the movement protesting plans to build an Islamic cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan is defending the actions of a right-wing, anti-Muslim group that was involved in violent clashes with British riot police over the weekend.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/08/27/justice-department-indicts-contractor-in-alleged-leak 2010-08-27T23:08:00Z

In the latest in a series of surprising prosecutions related to alleged sources for news reporters, the Justice Department late Friday announced a grand-jury indictment against Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, an employee of a government contractor, for allegedly leaking unspecified national defense secrets to an unidentified national news organization.

Mark Hosenball Owen Matthews /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/08/27/is-russian-spy-anna-chapman-cashing-in-already 2010-08-27T18:15:00Z

As part of the spy-swap deal that let her leave the country, flame-haired Russian sleeper agent Anna Chapman agreed to what U.S. officials claimed was a strict condition: she could not profit from her story. There's disagreement now over whether she's sticking with the deal.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/08/27/shock-and-horror-spies-engage-in-bribery 2010-08-27T15:00:00Z

Some U.S. national-security and intelligence officials are expressing exasperation at revelations—including front-page stories two days' running in the nation’s most important newspapers—alleging that the CIA has been secretly bribing numerous aides to Hamid Karzai, the embattled Afghan president.

Mark Hosenball /content/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2010/08/26/canadian-terror-suspects-may-have-been-targeting-government-buildings 2010-08-26T22:45:00Z

Three suspects arrested by Canadian authorities this week on terrorism-related charges had been collecting materials and instructions for building homemade bombs and may have considered targeting Canadian government buildings, national-security officials say.