Stage a gathering of spooks, and you never know who might show up. So it was last week, when the North Carolina Museum of History hosted the first Raleigh International Spy Conference. The brainchild of Bernie Reeves, a serious spy buff and publisher of both Metro magazine and the now-defunct Spectator newsweekly, the conference was […]
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Faking It
“The allegations have been substantiated.” That statement, drawn from an eight-page report by Chapel Hill Police Chief Gregg Jarvies, sharply summarizes the findings of his department’s internal investigation into a teenager’s claim that Detective John Moore “misrepresented himself as an agent of an FBI task force” while probing computer problems at Chapel Hill High School […]
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“Silly cops!”
Last Thursday, Chapel Hill Police Chief Gregg Jarvies placed three of his officers on paid administrative leave, pending the results of an internal investigation into allegations that two of the officers recently posed as FBI agents during an investigation at Chapel Hill High School. “It’s a disturbing issue that we’re having to deal with,” Jarvies […]
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“The FBI has been reading my diary”
For Erin Carter, a junior at Chapel Hill High School, it seemed like just another Friday. She went to class, and in her off time, thought about what to post on her web log, or “blog.” Part journal and part sounding board, Carter called it “Text into Nothing.” She’d launched it last December, and considered […]
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Accidents will happen
You could call it a case of “friendly fire”: Last week, 2,600 acres of the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in Dare County, near the town of Manteo, went up in smoke. The blaze was touched off on the afternoon of May 11 when a fighter pilot from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro […]
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Watching the Watchers
It’s a scheme straight out of science fiction: Build “a virtual, centralized grand database” at the Defense Department, one containing every available shred of personal information, and then “mine” it for indications of potential terrorist activity. Yet this Orwellian suggestion, which has stirred warnings from civil liberties groups and die-hard conservatives alike, is all too […]
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Freedom of Information
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former senator, passed away last month, most obituary writers left out a key chapter of the lauded statesman’s career: his eloquent defense of the public’s right to know what the government does. In one of his last major initiatives in the Senate, Moynihan co-chaired a special commission on “protecting and […]
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Takin’ it to the “Streets”
So you’ve spent the last few years protesting sanctions against Iraq, the last few months arguing against another military strike, and your birthday just happens to wind up at the end of President Bush’s ultimatum to Saddam. Happy Birthday, Andy Pearson.
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Corps Yanks Documents Off the Web
A new era of security has brought with it a new era of secrecy, and as a result, it’s time to add one more case of disappearing data to the post-Sept. 11 public information casualty list. Citing national security concerns, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has unceremoniously purged an online database of documents on […]
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Blasts from the Past
Danny and Kimberly Cash thought they had found an ideal spot to settle and raise their six children. When they said their wedding vows at a gazebo outside their new home in 1997, it was, for both of them, a second try at marriage, and it seemed just the place to start a new life: […]
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