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    Todd Park: President Obama's Tech 'Entrepreneur-in-Residence' | The Coming Cyber War | What a Cyber War Would Look Like | Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage (episode)

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    • Charges Expected Against Standard and Poor's February 5, 2013

      Its allegedly rosy ratings for mortgaged backed securities understated the severity of the growing housing crash and may have actually contributed to the financial crisis. Michael de ...

    • Memo Lays Out Legal Rationale for Drone Strike that Killed American Citizen February 5, 2013

      A 16-page memo obtained by NBC News was apparently the legal rationale for the killing of American citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki, an Al Qaeda operative. The memo is also the clearest statem...

    • Todd Park: President Obama's Tech 'Entrepreneur-in-Residence' February 5, 2013

      Congress created the Office of Science and Technology Policy in 1976, but Barack Obama was the first president to appoint a White House chief technology officer. In 2012, Todd Park be...

    • The Coming Cyber War February 5, 2013

      <p>What will future cyber-conflicts look like?&nbsp;<strong>Richard Clarke</strong>, former White House counter-terrorism czar, has a few ideas. He's a managing partner of Good Harbor, a cyber-security consultancy.</p>

    • Is Abe Lincoln Safe? February 5, 2013

      Today marks the last day the Royal Canadian Mint will distribute the penny, a coin that has been in production in Canada for more than 150 years. The sinking of the Canadian penny is ...

    • Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage February 5, 2013

      Long before Richard Nixon was president or he and Dwight D. Eisenhower were in-laws, the two were allies and adversaries. Their relationship lasted for 20 years, and brought out both ...

    • The Future of International Cyber Attacks February 5, 2013

      In the tech world, "hackers" are variously freedom fighters, poorly behaved geniuses, truth tellers, underground rock stars, and dangerous criminals where the objective is denial of s...