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WikiLeaks: We've Got Secret Cables on Murdoch, News Corp.

LONDON -- Not content with riling the U.S. government and military, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warns that he has a stash of potentially damaging secret documents on the world's most powerful media mogul: Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch. In an interview in this week's issue of Britain's left-leaning New Statesman...

Rumsfeld Memoir Highlights VIP Access to Government Files

Two days after WikiLeaks began publishing classified diplomatic cables, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped forward to condemn the massive leak, declaring on his Twitter feed, "I was a co-sponsor of [the Freedom of Information Act] in 1966. There is an appropriate, lawful process for declassifying material....

New Zealand Releases UFO Files

It's close encounters of the Kiwi kind as hundreds of formerly classified UFO reports, spanning nearly 60 years, were released this week by authorities in New Zealand. More than 2,000 pages of documents, revealing UFO sightings going back to the 1950s, are included in the files, the New Zealand Dominion Post reports. The...

Navy Intelligence Specialist Jailed in FBI Sting

(Dec. 7) -- A Navy petty officer is behind bars after selling secret documents to an undercover agent in an FBI sting, federal authorities say. US Navy / AP Navy Petty Officer Bryan Minkyu Martin is being held at Fort Bragg, N.C. Bryan Minkyu Martin, a Navy Reserve intelligence specialist with the Joint Special...

British UFO Hacker Fights Extradition to US

(Dec. 3) -- When Gary McKinnon decided to try to find secret UFO files, he did what any curious computer expert would do: He hacked into nearly 100 military and NASA computers until he was finally caught. Eight years later, the Scottish systems administrator awaits his legal fate. As controversy swirls around WikiLeaks,...