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CIA chief says social media ‘greatly amplifies’ terror threat

March 13, 2015 admin agency, agency-john, congress, diffuse-threats, facebook, headquarters, intelligence, pauses-while, sign-outside, Technology

Social media and other technology are making it increasingly difficult to combat militants who are using such modern resources to share information and conduct operations, the head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency said on Friday.

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Rifts within India’s movie censor panel spill into the open

March 12, 2015 publisher agency, angeles, ashoke-pandit, central-board, certification, congress, diffuse-threats, pauses-while, regal, sign-outside, social-media

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) – A prominent member of India's government censors took to social media on Thursday to rail against its chairman, exposing rifts within a censorship panel that has thwarted the theatrical release of films such as Hollywood hit “Fifty Shades of Grey”. Ashoke Pandit, a Bollywood film-maker, accused censor chief Pahlaj Nihalani of treating India's Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) like his personal fiefdom.

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CIA to make sweeping changes, focus more on cyber ops: agency chief

March 6, 2015 creative 70-year-history, agency, biggest, cia, creating-new, cutting, director-said, focus-on-cyber, mission-centers, national, sharpening-its, the-cutting, units-within, virginia

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Central Intelligence Agency will make one of the biggest overhauls in its nearly 70-year history, aimed in part at sharpening its focus on cyber operations and incorporating digital innovations, CIA director John Brennan said. Brennan said he is creating new units within the CIA, called “mission centers,” intended to concentrate the agency's focus on specific challenges or geographic areas, such as weapons proliferation or Africa