ASIO Cleared Terrorist

watoday: "Australia's security watchdog cleared an asylum seeker for community detention even though he was wanted in Egypt for premeditated murder and terrorism."

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Opposition 'treating national security as political plaything'

Warwick Daily News: "SHADOW attorney-general George Brandis's decision to go public with details of a briefing he received from Australia's intelligence agency has drawn criticism from a string of fired up ministers."

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ASIO boss says his building is secure

The Australian: "THE head of Australia's domestic security agency says his new building is very secure and so are his computers."

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East Timor defends gas treaty challenge

Source and full story ---> Connect Asia | ABC Radio Australia: "East Timor says it has irrefutable evidence that Australia's overseas spy agency broke in to the cabinet room of East Timor's government in Dili nine years ago, during negotiations for a treaty over the Greater Sunrise gas field."

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More money for ASIO won't fix security problem

Source and full story ---> Computerworld: "The Australian Greens have called for an investigation into how an ASIO building site contractor’s system was hacked and documents including floor plans were stolen."

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Chinese hack on ASIO would make it payback for Embassy bugs

Source and full story ---> SMH: "In 1995, Fairfax Media revealed that ASIO had managed to riddle China's palatial embassy on the other side of the lake with fibre-optic cables."

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China rejects allegations of hacking into Australia spy agency

Source and full story ---> todaysthv.com: "BEIJING, China (CBS) -- China rejected a media report on Tuesday (May 28) that hackers stole the blueprints of a new multi-million-dollar Australian spy headquarters, saying that "groundless accusations" cannot resolve the global cyber-attack issue."

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Aussie spies accused of bugging Timor cabinet

Source and full story ---> The Australian: "AUSTRALIA'S overseas spy agency has been accused of breaking into the cabinet rooms of the East Timorese government under the instruction of then foreign minister Alexander Downer and covertly recording the Timorese foreign minister and officials."

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ABC cyber attack report ‘inaccurate’: Gillard

Source and full story ---> www.afr.com: "Greens leader Christine Milne said the reported ASIO building hack was a “security breach of epic proportions” and called for an independent inquiry"

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ASIO hack: Julia Gillard defends intelligence funding for spy agency while China rejects link

Source and full story ---> ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "The Prime Minister has defended the Government's record of funding Australia's intelligence agencies, after a Four Corners report revealed that ASIO had been successfully targeted in a cyber attack by Chinese hackers."

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Holes in Australian terror safeguards

Source and full story ---> News.com.au: "A WEEK after the terrorist attack on a London street, the federal government has been warned budget cuts to Australia's intelligence agencies had put the nation's counter-terrorism capability at risk."

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Chinese hackers steal ASIO building plans: report

Source and full story ---> www.afr.com: "Chinese hackers stole the blueprints of the $630 million building that will house the Australia Security Intelligence Organisation, according to an ABC Four Corners report."

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PressTV - Aussie intel. accused of targeting left-wingers

Source and full story ---> PressTV: "ASIO, or the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, is primarily responsible for protecting Australian citizens and the country itself from domestic security threats, such as terrorism, sabotage, and espionage."

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Miranda Devine cautions us to beware the enemy within

Source and full story ---> thetelegraph.com.au: "THE handsome black man with bloodied hands holding a knife and meat cleaver after butchering a soldier on the streets of London last week was just your average, run-of-the-mill, home-grown Islamist hothead."

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Distrustful Mossad won't replace top spy in Canberra

Source and full story ---> The Australian: "ISRAEL has refused to replace its top spy in Australia because of lingering mistrust of the federal government, after its Mossad chief was expelled and his name leaked and published during the false passports scandal in 2010."

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SL woman asylum seeker to be freed from detention

Source and full story ---> www.dailymirror.lk: "A Sri Lankan asylum seeker, previously deemed a security risk, will be released from Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney after her adverse security assessment was overturned by spy agency Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) ."

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Gillard urged to ease 'Orwellian' spy laws

Source and full story ---> NZ Herald News: "Prime Minister Julia Gillard is coming under renewed pressure to ease the wave of draconian powers handed to Australia's domestic spy agency since the September 11 attacks on the United States."

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Your rights with ASIO - advice for activists (Part 1 of two parts)

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Your rights with ASIO — advice for activists

Source and full story ---> Green Left Weekly: "Over the last eight months at least seven political activists around Australia have been approached by federal or state intelligence agents for information about other activists."

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Oz jihadist charged for issuing 'how-to survive' holy war list on Facebook

Source and full story ---> Business Standard: "An Australian has been charged under anti-terrorist laws for issuing a how-to list on Facebook for how young men can engage in holy war without getting killed or ending up in Guantanamo Bay."

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ASIO's counter-terrorism powers may be scaled back

Source and full story ---> ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Powers given to Australia's intelligence agency to combat terrorism, including the power to detain suspects without charge, could be scaled back."

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Australian Secret Intelligence Service

Source ---> Arrow Wiki: "The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) is the Australian government intelligence agency responsible for collecting foreign intelligence, undertaking counter-intelligence activities and cooperation with other intelligence agencies overseas"

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Rallies seek release of 55 refugees in limbo

Source and full story ---> smh: "Rallies will be held across the country on Friday to demand the release of a Sri Lankan mother and her three children, along with the other 55 ASIO-rejected refugees being detained in Australian detention centres."

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ASIO should stop harassing activists

Source and full story ---> Green Left Weekly: "I received a knock on the door on April 16 from two members of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, better known as ASIO."

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Renaming the Defence Signals Directorate and the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation

Source and full story ---> Defence Ministers » Prime Minister and Minister for Defence: "Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Defence Stephen Smith today announced that the Government has decided to rename the Defence Signals Directorate and the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation to reflect their critical roles in support of Australia’s national security."

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Friends, spies and espionage

Source and full story ---> smh: "South Korean spies working out of Canberra have been carrying out clandestine operations against Australia, and ASIO has been trying to cover it up."

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