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Reagan played role in NSA’s Hanson lobbied for budget’s OK hack of Google and Yahoo
“I’ve been around for about 30 budgets. It is not unusual at all … [for people] to say they don’t like the process and this is last minute and you’re rushing it through.”
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The ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JOSE, Calif. – Back when Yahoo was something hollered at a rodeo and no one could conceive of Googling anything, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order that extended the power of U.S. intelligence agencies overseas, allowing broader surveillance of nonU.S. suspects. At the time, no one imagined he was granting authority to spy on what became known as Silicon Valley. But recent reports that the National Security Agency secretly broke into communications on Yahoo and Google overseas have technology companies, privacy
Group support important • SMOKEOUT Continued from page A1 about staying overnight. I thought, ‘I can’t smoke. What am I going to do?’ It’s the first thing that comes to mind.” Martha Kieffer, a nurse educator at Kishwaukee Hospital, teaches the Time to Quit Tobacco class, which will be offered from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays from Jan. 28 to Feb. 18 at the hospital, 1 Kish Hospital Drive, DeKalb, for $25. Those who attend all four sessions will receive a full refund. Kieffer said group support is important. “I even had one person who was very successful in quitting [who] said, ‘When I came to class, I didn’t plan on quitting, but everybody else did, so I did too,’ “ she said. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and can cause lung diseases, cancer, heart disease, infertility, stroke and bone density issues. But the benefits of quitting can happen relatively quickly. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, a person’s blood pressure and pulse rate return to normal within 20 minutes of the last cigarette. The carbon monoxide level in the blood and oxygen level return to normal within nine hours. After just one day without smoking, a person’s chance of a heart attack decreases. “Nothing can be that bad that you have to smoke,” Robinson said. “I wish I would have thought about that years and years ago. “I can’t change the past, but I can do something about my future.”
Learn more n The Illinois Tobacco Quitline is available in more than 200 languages and for the deaf/hard of hearing. To contact them, call 866-784-8937. n For information, call DeKalb County Health Department at 815758-6673 or Kishwaukee Hospital at 815-756-1521; or visit www. cancer.org, www.smokefree.gov or www.quityes.org.
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advocates and even national security proponents calling for a re-examination of Reagan’s order and other intelligence laws. Experts suggest a legislative update is long overdue to clear up what Electronic Frontier Foundation legal director Cindy Cohn calls “lots of big gray areas.” With the cooperation of foreign allies, the NSA is potentially gaining access to every email sent or received abroad, or between people abroad, from Google and Yahoo’s email services, as well as anything in Google Docs, Maps or Voice, according to a series of articles in the Washington Post. It’s impossible to know how many of Goo-
gle and Yahoo’s collective 1.8 billion accounts are affected, but in a single 30-day period last year, field collectors processed and warehoused more than 180 million new records – ranging from “metadata,” which would indicate who sent or received emails and when, to content such as text, audio and video, the Post reported. “Had the NSA done the same warrantless tapping at Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters, there’s no doubt they would be violating the law,” said Cohn, whose San Francisco-based non-profit fights for digital freedoms. “They’re doing this abroad because they want that fig leaf of legality.”
about them,” he said. Other board members such as Frank O’Barski, D-DeKalb, and Mark Pietrowski, D-Cortland, said board members should pass the budget and find ways to make cuts next year along with improving the budget appeal process. County Administrator Gary Hanson encouraged the board to pass it as well. He said the arguments against passing the tax levy and budget were nothing new. “I’ve been around for about 30 budgets,” he said. “It is not unusual at all … [for people] to say they don’t like the process and this is last minute and you’re rushing it through.” Since county officials put
Gary Hanson, county administrator the budget on public display in September, there have been several changes made through the appeal process. Peter Stefan, county finance director, said the State’s Attorney’s Office requested a full-time secretary position. Because of budget constraints, two part-time secretary positions were budgeted instead, with a cost of no more than $27,000 to cover salaries and expenses for Social Security and Medicare. Several funds for county
Service member: ‘We don’t care if things go properly. We just don’t want to get in trouble’ • TROUBLES Continued from page A1 into question the management of a force that demands strict obedience to procedures. The AP was advised in May of the confidential study, shortly after it was completed, by a person who said it should be made public to improve understanding of discontent within the ICBM force. After repeated inquiries, and shortly after AP filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a PowerPoint outline, the Air Force provided it last Friday and arranged for RAND officials and two senior Air Force generals to explain it. Based on confidential small-group discussions last winter with about 100 launch officers, security forces, missile maintenance workers and
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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh talks to a reporter Wednesday in his office at the Pentagon. others who work in the missile fields – plus responses to confidential questionnaires – RAND found low job satisfaction and workers distressed by staff shortages, equipment flaws and what they felt were stifling management tactics.
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It also found what it termed “burnout.” Burnout in this context means feeling exhausted, cynical and ineffective on the job, according to Chaitra Hardison, RAND’s senior behavioral scientist and lead author of
the study. She used a system of measure that asks people to rate on a scale of 1 to 7 – from “never” to “always” – how often in their work they experience certain feelings, including tiredness, hopelessness and a sense of being trapped. An average score of 4 or above is judged to put the person in the “burnout” range. One service member said, “We don’t care if things go properly. We just don’t want to get in trouble.” That person and all others who participated in the study were granted confidentiality by RAND in order to speak freely. The 13 launch officers who volunteered for the study scored an average of 4.4 on the burnout scale, tied for highest in the group. A group of 20 junior enlisted airmen assigned to missile security forces also scored 4.4.
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This has always been considered hard duty, in part because of the enormous responsibility of safely operating nuclear missiles, the most destructive weapons ever invented. In its Cold War heyday, an ICBM force twice as big as today’s was designed to deter the nuclear Armageddon that at times seemed all-too-possible amid a standoff with the former Soviet Union and a relentless race to build more bombs. Today the nuclear threat is no longer prominent among America’s security challenges. The arsenal has shrunk – in size and stature. The Air Force struggles to demonstrate the relevance of its aging ICBMs in a world worried more about terrorism and cyberwar and accustomed to 21st century weapons such as drones.
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services will see a decrease in funding from property tax levies. Funds for Senior Services, Public Health and Veteran’s Assistance will have a combined reduction of $85,000. Stefan said these funds are capped at the maximum tax rate and can receive no more funding, while other funds such as the Mental Health Fund can receive more. The fiscal 2014 budget is viewable online at shawurl. com/vr4.
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