by Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman | Oct 9, 2012 | Monitor
The aftermath of violent late September clashes in Benghazi, Libya. Photo: AP/Mohammad Hannon The day after Islamic extremists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, the nation’s top counterterrorists hosted something of a brainstorming session on how to keep...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
Libyans walk on the grounds of the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Photo: AP/Ibrahim Alaguri Updated 7:42 pm. It was not a simple mob that attacked the...
by Cade Metz | Jul 17, 2012 | Monitor
The Senate Armed Service Committee isn’t exactly pleased with the NSA’s Google-like database. Image: jim.greenhill/Flickr In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google. They...