NATO Secretary General - Doorstep Statement, Defence Ministers Meeting, 05 FEB 2015
Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg prior to the meetings of NATO Defence Ministers, 05 February 2015. More on our website: http://goo.gl/5GS1Js.
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LIVE: Meeting of NATO Defence Ministers
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NATO Secretary General - NATO-Georgia Commission, Defence Ministers Meeting, 05 FEB 2015
Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO-Georgia Commission at the level of Defence Ministers, 05 February 2015.
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LIVE: Meeting of NATO Defence Ministers (Press conference)
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NATO defense ministers agreed Thursday to more than double the size of the alliance's Response Force and create a new quick-reaction force of 5,000 troops to meet simultaneous challenges from Russia and Islamic extremists.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the decisions made during a daylong meeting at alliance headquarters in Brussels will "ensure that we have the right forces in the right place at the right time."
NATO will now "be able to defend all allies against any threat, from the east or from the south," he told reporters.
NATO's total Response Force was increased from 13,000 to 30,000 troops and its new rapid reaction force should start to deploy within 48 hours, Stoltenberg said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his counterparts from NATO's other 27 member nations also ordered the creation of command-and-control centers in the capitals of the three Baltic states Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania as well as in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. In an emergency the centers will help speed the arrival of the new quick-reaction force as well as later NATO reinforcements.
A new headquarters to help defend NATO members in northeastern Europe will also be created in western Poland, and Romania has volunteered to host a similar multinational divisional headquarters for southeastern Europe, the ministers said.
Six of NATO's largest European members Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain volunteered on a rotating basis to furnish the nucleus for the quick-reaction force, a brigade-sized, land-based unit accompanied by air- and sea-based elements that should be able to deploy in a week, Stoltenberg said.
"European allies are fully playing their part, taking the lead in protecting Europe," Stoltenberg said.
For 2015, he said, Germany, Norway and the Netherlands have already begun training and exercising a prototype version of the force.
U.S. officials have said they plan to assist the new formation with non-troop support such as airlifts, intelligence, surveillance or reconnaissance capabilities.
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Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove attends a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Jan. 22. Breedlove told NPR on Thursday that "the conditions in eastern Ukraine have to change." Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP hide caption
Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove attends a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Jan. 22. Breedlove told NPR on Thursday that "the conditions in eastern Ukraine have to change."
NATO Commander Gen. Philip Breelove said that "hundreds and hundreds" of Russian troops are currently operating alongside separatists in eastern Ukraine, providing supplies, weapons and air defense in the battle against the Ukrainian government.
Russia has repeatedly denied that its forces are in Ukraine.
But in an interview with NPR Morning Edition host Renee Montagne, the general said that the Russian activity was beyond dispute.
"We all agree that there are Russian troops in eastern Ukraine," he said.
The U.S. has been providing non-lethal aid to Ukraine and the Obama administration has been weighing whether to send weapons.
In a related development Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry was in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, discussing the fighting that has intensified recently.
"Clearly, what we see is that conditions in eastern Ukraine have to change," Breedlove said.
The United Nations says more than 5,300 combatants and civilians have been killed since pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces began fighting last spring.
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NATO Commander: 'Conditions In Eastern Ukraine Have To Change'
AFP Ukrainian servicemen on patrol in the village of Horlivka, Donetsk region - 4 February 2015
Nato is set to announce details of a plan to bolster the alliance's military presence in Eastern Europe in response to continued fighting in Ukraine.
The bloc's chief says it will be the biggest reinforcement of its collective defence since the end of the Cold War.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State John Kerry is to hold talks in Kiev as the US considers whether to send weapons to help Ukraine fight pro-Russian rebels.
The US has so far only provided "non-lethal" assistance to Ukraine.
On Wednesday Ashton Carter, the White House's choice for defence secretary, said he was "inclined" to start supplying arms.
Nato defence ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday will seek to reassure the alliance's member nations in Eastern Europe by boosting its forces there.
A rapid reaction force of up to 5,000 is expected to be announced, with its lead units able to deploy at two days' notice.
Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg has said the bloc faces a "fundamental change" to its security environment because of Russian aggression.
Speaking as ministers arrived in Brussels, he said: "This is something we do as a response to the aggressive actions we have seen from Russia, violating international law and annexing Crimea," he said.
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NSA Director Michael Rogers speaks Thursday at the UC San Diego, calling for a national dialogue on security versus privacy concerns
NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers said Thursday that the nation needs to debate security versus privacy concerns in the wake of revelations of expansive government surveillance revealed by whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
In a wide-ranging speech at UC San Diego, which operates one of the nations largest computer science programs and is a leader in cybersecurity, Rogers contended that the Snowden revelations have hurt the National Security Agencys counterterrorism efforts.
After Snowden, a former NSA contractor, leaked documents 18 months ago, Al Qaeda videos online warned terrorists to avoid certain communications methods because the Americans are onto it, Rogers said.
Dont let there be any doubt from anybody in this room that these revelations have hurt our ability to conduct our mission, he said. As I look at ISIL and others, Im watching those targets change their behavior directly because of this.
Snowden remains abroad after being charged with leaking secret information about U.S. government surveillance programs. He contends hes a whistle-blower who exposed NSA abuses particularly the bulk collection of domestic phone records.
Most of the Snowden stuff was about us and the metadata and all that type of thing, said Lawrence Korb, a senior adviser at the Center for Defense Information in Washington, D.C.
External reviews found the NSAs surveillance was within the law. Still, Rogers believes there should be a debate on the long-standing legal framework that authorizes cybersurveillance.
What we need to have, I believe, as a nation is a dialogue about what are we comfortable with here, he said. A world of great security but limited freedom, I have zero interest as a citizen of being a part of that. But the flip side, a world of great freedom but limited security, I dont think that is in our best interests either.
He lamented that at a time when terrorism and cyberthreats are rising, public trust in the oversight of the NSA and other government agencies has plunged.
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The NSA and its allies have raided the pockets of independent and nation-state hackers and monitored some of the security industry's foremost researchers in its bid to hoover information on targets and find better ways to break systems, Snowden documents reveal.
Spooks would monitor the work of 'freelance' and rival state hackers, notably those plundering email accounts owned by targets of interest to the NSA and friends, and pilfer the stolen contents, according to a report by The Intercept.
That stolen data, referred to as 'take', was then pinched from hacker targets such as journalists, activists and military sources including the Indian Navy. Those hacks were likely the handiwork of other nation-state hackers given the sophistication of the breaches.
The documents revealed the hackers' email-plundering infrastructure was referred to under the moniker INTOLERANT and that Canada and the UK had hands in hacker pockets.
Here's a choice bit from one of the alleged NSA documents:
The NSA would tip-off allies such as the UK and Australia when it found data in hackers' take.
Snowden's trickle-feed cache also revealed the NSA had run an open source intelligence gathering service known as Lovely Horse which monitored the Twitter feeds of security bods including Mark Dowd, Tavis Ormandy and HD Moore. The Intercept listed 36 other Twitter sources who could be flattered by the agency's interest.
The agency also scraped security blogs for data in its bid to keep abreast of emerging exploits and vulnerabilities.
It need not have go to the length to build in-house systems however. Plenty of RSS feed platforms and page-monitoring browser extensions exist, while Aussie hacker Matt Jones (@volvent) had in 2012 created the TalkBack portal to analyse Twitter chatter and pry out new vulnerability information using known good security sources.
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The NSA has published its first "report" on signals intelligence "reform" in the US. If you were hoping for sweeping changes in the wake of Ed Snowden's whistleblowing, you're in for disappointment.
The factsheet, covering the year to date, was written up after some prodding and tutting by President Obama in January 2014.
It shows some minor tweaks in how Uncle Sam's agencies collect and processes information on people's everyday lives. We're told mass surveillance is still allowed:
Information obtained en masse from emails, phone calls, internet snooping, and so on, by spies using Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will now be more closely scrutinized rather than slung into a bottomless bit well: any material deemed to not be of national importance will be deleted as soon as it is found, it's claimed.
Data which could be useful will be kept for five years before deletion, unless it's stuff the NSA really wants to keep for national security purposes in which case, it's indefinite.
The rules on whistleblowing have also been amended to allow staff to report illegal activity by their peers without fear of professional sanction. If, like Edward Snowden, you're a contractor, there are still no legal protections for whistleblowing, and you can expect to be prosecuted if you speak out.
The use of secret National Security Letters by the FBI and others has been changed, the NSA notes. These letters allow investigators to trawl through corporate databases but deny the businesses concerned the right to tell anyone about it. These gagging orders will now expire after three years.
The NSA report states:
In his January 17, 2014 remarks, the President directed the Attorney General to amend how we use National Security Letters so that [their] secrecy will not be indefinite, and will terminate within a fixed time unless the government demonstrates a real need for further secrecy.
In response to the Presidents new direction, the FBI will now presumptively terminate National Security Letter nondisclosure orders at the earlier of three years after the opening of a fully predicated investigation or the investigations close.
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The Kentucky Republican becomes the second of his party's 2016 presidential contenders to publicly oppose Lynch's confirmation as Eric Holder's replacement as head of the Justice Department, joining Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
Paul is the first Republican outside the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose Lynch, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn who is seeking to become the first African-American woman to serve as attorney general.
"Mrs. Lynch has a track-record of violating the individual freedoms granted to us by our Constitution," he said in a statement. "She considers civil asset forfeiture to be a 'useful tool,' while I consider it to be an infringement on the Fifth Amendment. She remains non-committal on the legality of drone strikes against American citizens, while I believe such strikes unequivocally violate rights granted to us by the Sixth Amendment.
"Mrs. Lynch also supports President Obama's calls for executive amnesty, which I vehemently oppose," Paul said. "The Attorney General must operate independent of politics, independent of the president and under the direction of the Constitution. I cannot support a nominee, like Mrs. Lynch, who rides roughshod on our Constitutional rights."
Republicans grilled Lynch about her stance on Obama's move to forestall some deportations during her confirmation hearing this month. Lynch said she sees the Justice Department's legal analysis backing the president's moves as reasonable.
Cruz has pushed Republicans to hold up Lynch's confirmation as a procedural move to gain leverage against Obama over immigration.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has said he'll support Lynch. But several of the committee's GOP members -- including Cruz, David Vitter of Louisiana, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and John Cornyn of Texas -- say they'll oppose her.
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A bill introduced in the House would allow any law-abiding Idahoan the right to carry a concealed weapon without a permit.
A quick look at the Second Amendment shows no requirement for a permit to carry a gun. Greg Pruett thinks there's something to that.
"The Second Amendment is our carrying permit," he said. Pruett is the founder of Idaho Second Amendment Alliance, a lobbying group that promotes gun rights.
He introduced a bill today that would not require a permit for Idahoans to carry a concealed weapon.
"In the state of Idaho you can already open carry without a permit, said Pruett. All we're doing is saying 'Hey, concealed carry ought to be the same.'"
The bill wouldn't change laws concerning guns on campus - an enhanced conceal carry permit would still be needed.
At Forward Movement Training Center - where dozens of Idahoans learn to properly use guns - the news comes with mixed reaction.
"There's a huge liability that I think a lot of people don't realize or think through when they strap on a firearm," said Matt Schneider, owner of Forward Movement.
The outfit stresses the need to properly train with guns, utilizing a state of the art simulator that forces gun carriers to respond to potential real-world scenarios.
"That training is a critical piece, said Schneider. The time to make mistakes is in training the time to make a mistake is not in the real world."
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I wanted to question Petreus about #39;successes #39; in Iraq, but got arrested - Ray McGovern
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern will not let his First Amendment rights be infringed upon by the New York City Police Department or any other organization, the prominent anti-war activist told...
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