Washington, Apr. 2: A withering internal report made public on Wednesday has criticized the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for bureaucratic bloat, financial mismanagement and a failure to end the turf battles among America’s spy agencies that led to disastrous intelligence failures in recent years.
The report, by the inspector general, was the most detailed account to date of problems that bedevil America’s intelligence agencies more than four years after Congress and President George W. Bush created the director’s office to overcome weaknesses exposed by the Sept. 11 attacks, reports the New York Post.
Washington, Apr. 2: General David Petraeus, the top US commander in the Middle East, has told the US Congress that Israel could take matters into its own hands vis-à-vis Iran, should that country go ahead with its plans on the nuclear front.
"The Israeli government may ultimately see itself so threatened by the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon that it would take preemptive military action to derail or delay it," The Jerusalem Post quoted General Petraeus, as saying.
Washington, Apr 2 : A lawyer of Britney Spears' ex manager Sam Lufti has revealed that the pop diva's life under her dad''s conservatorship is like "prison."
In a hearing in a Los Angeles court, where Spears'' conservators are seeking restraining orders against her former manager Lutfi and lawyer Eardley, John Anderson testified he was contacted by Eardley, to represent Britney in her fight against the conservatorship
(which gives Jamie Spears control over her personal and financial affairs).
Washington, Apr 2: Public announcements in passenger terminals could now be clearer, crisper, and easier to hear—thanks to a new ''Flat, Flexible Loudspeaker'' (FFL) developed by University of Warwick engineers.
Pioneered by University of Warwick spinout company Warwick Audio Technologies, the groundbreaking new loud speakers are less than 0.25mm thick, and could even be hung on a wall like a picture.
Washington, Apr 2: Proposing a new theory of autism, scientists have revealed that the brains of autistic people are structurally normal but dysregulated, which implies that the disorder might be reversible.
The theory put forward by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is centred on the principle that autism is a developmental disorder caused by impaired regulation of the locus coeruleus-a bundle of neurons in the brain stem that processes sensory signals from all areas of the body.