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Obama meets with GOP leaders
Military's Twitter, YouTube sites hacked
France prepares new terror laws
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forgiven” — a phrase one
writer said meant to show
that the survivors of the
attacks forgave the gunmen.
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has not issued a broad
instruction to change or
update its password and
verification profiles on the
social media sites. But he
said accounts within the
office of the secretary of
defense, which includes
Pentagon press operations,
have made passwords
and security changes in
more than 50 accounts.
The Defense Department
has thousands of social
media accounts across
all the military services,
commands and bases.
U.S. Central Command
Twitter accounts in
English and Arabic and
the YouTube site were
quickly removed from the
web about a half hour after
the breach, and were back
online late Monday night.
FBI spokesman Joshua
Campbell said the bureau
is investigating the Central
Command Twitter and
YouTube breaches and is
working with the Pentagon
Minority Leader Harry
Reid, D-Nev., who suffered
an injury during a recent
workout and has not yet
returned to Capitol Hill.
The White House said
the president also updated
lawmakers on foreign
policy issues, including the
military campaign against
Islamic State militants in
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As Chopins funeral march
played in central Paris and the
caskets draped in French flags
were led from the building, a
procession began in Jerusalem
for the four Jewish victims of
the attack Friday on a kosher
supermarket in Paris.
“Returning to your
ancestral home need not
be due to distress, out
of desperation, amidst
destruction, or in the throes
of terror and fear,” said Israeli
President Reuven Rivlin.
Defying the bloodshed
and terror of last week, a
caricature of the Prophet
Muhammad is to appear
Wednesday on the cover
of the satirical newspaper
Charlie Hebdo, weeping and
holding a placard with the
words “I am Charlie.” Above
him is emblazoned: “All is
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Iraq and Syria. Obama has
called on Congress to vote
on a new authorization for
use of military force that
would be a guidepost for
that effort. Boehner and
other Republicans have said
they want the White House
to write the authorization,
then send it to Congress for
votes.
PARIS (AP) — Frances
prime minister announced
he would seek tighter
surveillance of convicted
extremists Tuesday and
reports emerged that the
weapons used by a terror
cell to kill 17 people around
Paris came from outside the
country.
In a rousing, indignant
speech, Prime Minister
Manuel Valls said “serious
and very high risks remain”
and warned the French not
to let down their guard. He
called for new surveillance
of imprisoned radicals and
told the interior minister to
come up with new security
proposals shortly.
Christophe Crepin,
a French police union
representative, said several
people were being sought in
the president’s agenda,
including legislation on
immigration and health
care that the White House
has vowed to veto.
Boehner appeared
to double down on the
Republican strategy in
Tuesday’s meeting. His
office said the Ohio
Republican made clear
that the House would
push forward on a bill that
would block the president’s
executive actions on
commercial, non-Defense
Department Internet
servers.
One of the documents
appeared to be slides
developed by the
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology’s Lincoln
Laboratory, a federally
funded research and
development center focused
on national security. The
slides appeared to depict
what it called “scenarios”
for conflict with North
Korea and China. It’s not
clear where the documents
came from or how long
ago they might have been
taken, since some of the
information was as much as
a year old.
The tweets came shortly
after U.S. Central Command
posted its own tweets about
the U.S. and partner nations
continuing to attack Islamic
State terrorists in Iraq and
Syria and one repeating a
report that said France will
deploy an aircraft carrier to
WASHINGTON (AP)
— President Barack
Obama and Republican
congressional leaders paid
lip service to the notion
of bipartisanship in their
first meeting of the year
Tuesday, but neither side
appeared to give ground on
GOP priorities that have
been met with a flurry
of veto threats from the
White House.
As he opened Tuesday’s
meeting, Obama urged
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Madonna, AC/DC and
Ariana Grande are among the
first performers announced to
take the stage at the Grammy
Awards next month.
Singer-songwriter Ed
Sheeran and country star
Eric Church will also
perform at the Staples Center
in Los Angeles on Feb. 8,
The Recording Academy
announced Tuesday.
Grande, who is nominated
for two awards, will make her
Grammy debut. Church is
nominated for four honors,
while Sheeran has three,
including album of the year
for x.
Beyonce, Sam Smith and
Pharrell are the leaders in
nominations with six apiece.
The three pop stars, along
with Sheeran, will compete
with Beck for album of the
year.
deployed 10,000 troops
to protect sensitive sites,
including Jewish schools and
synagogues, mosques and
travel hubs.
Earlier in the day, in
ceremonies thousands of
miles apart, France and Israel
paid tribute to the victims of
the terror attacks.
At police headquarters
in Paris, French President
Francois Hollande paid tribute
to the three police officers
killed in the attacks, placing
Legion of Honor medals on
their caskets.
Hollande vowed that France
will be “merciless in the face
of anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim
acts, and unrelenting against
those who defend and carry
out terrorism, notably the
jihadists who go to Iraq and
Syria.”
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Twitter and YouTube
sites for the U.S. military’s
Central Command are back
online after being taken
over by hackers claiming
to support the Islamic
State militant group, and
Pentagon officials are
reviewing some security
protocols in the wake of the
breach.
Col. Steve Warren, a
Pentagon spokesman, said
Tuesday that it is too soon
to tell who the hackers are
and where they got some
of the official documents
they placed on Central
Command’s Twitter feed
Wednesday afternoon. The
documents included some
personal phone numbers
and email addresses and
a few slides that were
prepared by an independent
research group.
Defense Secretary Chuck
Hagel, visiting Whiteman
Air Force Base, Mo., said
Tuesday that the hack “was
to determine the scope of
the incident.
The Central Command
Twitter site was filled
with threats that said
“American soldiers, we
are coming, watch your
back.” Other postings
appeared to list names,
phone numbers and
personal email addresses
of military personnel as
well as PowerPoint slides
and maps.
Most of the material
was labeled “FOUO,”
which means “For
Official Use Only,” but
none of it appeared to
be classified or sensitive
information. U.S. Central
Command said that none
of the information and
documents posted on the
hacked site were from
the command’s Internet
servers or social media
sites.
The breach only affected
the Twitter and YouTube
sites, which reside on
a violation, it wasn’t a big
deal. But it shows you, it
reminds you, once again,
of how dangerous these
different groups are and
how capable they are.”
The hacker group, calling
itself CyberCaliphate,
was already under FBI
investigation for incursions
into the Twitter feeds or
websites of media outlets in
New Mexico and Maryland,
prompting officials to
question whether the group
has any real affiliation with
the Islamic State militants.
The U.S. and other
partner nations have been
launching airstrikes against
Islamic State insurgents and
locations across Iraq and
Syria since last summer.
The Pentagon called the
breaches an annoying prank
and said they did not affect
military networks or access
classified or operational
data.
Warren said Tuesday
the Defense Department
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban
dissidents freed as part of
a historic detente with the
United States are praising
the warming of relations and
pledging to keep pushing for
change inside their country.
Angel Yunier Remon
Arzuaga, a rapper known
as “The Critic,” told The
Associated Press Tuesday
that U.S.-Cuban detente
“gives me the strength to
keep demanding our rights
and freedoms.”
Miguel Alberto Ulloa,
a 25-year-old Havana
man arrested in 2013 for
painting anti-government
slogans and released
under house arrest, said
he will stay at home until
his sentence ends in two
months but that he’s
“eager to go to the street,
speak out, show that I’m
dissatisfied.”
AP photo
President Barack Obama, accompanied by, from left, House Majority
Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of
Calif., and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks to media during a
meeting with bipartisan, bicameral leadership of Congress to discuss a wide
range of issues, on Tuesday in the White House.
are about trying to work
with the president.”
“In the first five
days that they’ve been
in session, they’ve
advanced five pieces of
legislation all the way
to the rules committee
that they already know
this president strongly
opposes,” Earnest said.
Despite the areas of
disagreement, the White
House and Boehner both
raised the prospect of
working together on trade,
overhauling the nation’s
complex tax code, and
cybersecurity.
The president renewed
his call for Congress
to pass legislation
encouraging the private
sector to share cyberthreat
data with the government
and shield companies from
lawsuits if they opt to do
so.
“I think we agreed that
this is an area where we
can work hard together,
get some legislation done
and make sure that we are
much more effective in
protecting the American
people from these kinds of
cyberattacks,” Obama said.
Boehner’s office
concurred, saying
“Republicans are ready to
work with both parties to
address this important issue
and put some common-
sense measures on the
president’s desk.”
Absent from Tuesday’s
meeting was Senate
NEW YORK (AP) —
Opening statements are
about to begin in the New
York trial of a San Francisco
man accused of running an
underground website where
authorities say drugs were
sold.
A jury was selected
Tuesday. Ross William
Ulbricht has pleaded not
guilty to charges he ran the
Silk Road website. Among a
dozen protesters supporting
Ulbricht outside Manhattan
federal court was a man with
a sign: “Web Hosting is not a
crime!”
Prosecutors say they plan to
show Ulbricht tried to hire hit
men to protect his business.
Ulbricht disputes he
operated online under the
alias “Dread Pirate Roberts.”
the fight.
The hackers titled the
Central Command Twitter
page “CyberCaliphate”
with an underline that said
“i love you isis.” And the
broader message referred
to the ongoing airstrikes
against the Islamic State
group in Iraq and Syria
and threatened, “We broke
into your networks and
personal devices and know
everything about you. You’ll
see no mercy infidels. ISIS
is already here, we are in
your PCs, in each military
base.”
It added: “US soldiers!
We’re watching you!”
Some IS militant videos
also were posted on the
Central Command’s
YouTube site, purporting
to show military operations
and explosions.
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relation to the “substantial”
financing of the three
gunmen. He said the weapons
stockpile came from abroad
and the amount spent plus
the logistics of the attacks
indicated an organized
network
French authorities were
working to trace the source
of the weapons funding while
in Bulgaria, a prosecutor
announced that a man
already in custody had ties
to one of the brothers who
carried out the Charlie
Hebdo newspaper massacre.
French police say as
many as six members of the
terrorist cell that carried out
the Paris attacks may still
be at large, including a man
seen driving a car registered
to the widow of one of the
gunmen. The country has
leaders to stake out areas of immigration and also
compromise on trade, tax urged the president to
reform and cybersecurity, sign a bill approving
saying he was hopeful that construction of the
“a spirit of cooperation Keystone XL pipeline,
and putting America first” The Keystone measure
will prevail. The president and immigration bill
was flanked by House are among the five veto
Speaker John Boehner and threats the White House
Senate Majority Leader has issued in the week
Mitch McConnell, the two since Congress returned to
Republicans now in charge Washington.
on Capitol Hill, White House spokesman
Obama’s sunny spin on Josh Earnest took a
Washington’s new power sharper tone in discussing
dynamic was at odds with Republicans than the
much of what has played president, saying the
out in the week since the GOP’s approach to the
new Congress was seated. opening days of the new
Republicans have taken Congress raises questions
aim at core elements of “about how serious they
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