NPR – by Mary Louise Kelly

The world is entering a new cyber era — one with no ground rules, and with the potential for traditional espionage to be “turbocharged” by the Internet, President Obama told NPR in an exclusive interview.

“Among the big powers, there has been a traditional understanding of, that everybody is trying to gather intelligence on everybody else,” Obama told Morning Edition‘s Steve Inskeep in a wide-ranging interview on Thursday. “It’s no secret that Russian intelligence officers, or Chinese, or for that matter Israeli or British or other intelligence agencies, their job is to get insight into the workings of other countries that they’re not reading in the newspapers every day.”   Continue reading “Obama: Espionage Is Being ‘Turbocharged’ By The Internet”

Fox 10 Phoenix

PHOENIX (KSAZ) – President-Elect Donald Trump is back-pedaling on earlier claims that President Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud. Now one of Trump’s biggest supporters, outgoing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is making headlines once again over the issue.

The sheriff, who’s been at odds with the administration for years, says he’s investigating the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate since 2012. Now Arpaio is set to make another announcement in that ongoing probe on Thursday afternoon.   Continue reading “Sheriff Arpaio to reveal ‘newest revelations’ on President Obama’s birth certificate”