NSA analysts have access to 'powerful and invasive' search tools – Greenwald

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The disclosure of new information about the access by low-level analysts to private emails and phone calls of Americans will soon be revealed to public, said Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist, who was the first to report about the US National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs.

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Full Update: The US Army restricted access to parts of The Guardian newspaper’s website

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The US Army confirmed on Thursday that access to The Guardian newspaper’s website has been filtered and restricted. Gordon Van Vleet, spokesman for the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, or NETCOM, said in an email to the Monterey Herald that the Army is filtering "some access to press coverage and online content about the NSA leaks."

The Guardian's website has posted classified information regarding the NSA's surveillance activities, including PRISM, the massive domestic spying program that has Internet companies collude with military intelligence to keep tabs on Americans' online habits.

According to staff at the Presidio of Monterey, a military installation in California, employees told the Herald that they were able to access the paper’s US site, www.guardiannews.com, but were prevented from accessing articles on the NSA that redirected to the British site.

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Coscharis Boss Cosmas Maduka retires from Access Bank’s board

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By Omoh Gabriel & Peter Egwuatu
LAGOS — The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has sanctioned Access Bank Plc for violating the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act, BOFIA, 1991 in 2011.  This came as Dr Maduka Cosmas has retired from Access Bank’s Board of Directors.

The apex bank, in the sanction, fined Access Bank N3 million for violating its rules and regulations on granting of loans.

However, CBN told Vanguard, yesterday, that the issue at stake is not new. The CBN official said the said sanction was based on the examination the CBN carried out on the bank on September 30, 2011.