CIA

The FBI is evaluating separate criminal referrals sent to the Justice Department by the CIA in its dispute with Senate investigators over access to documents about the agency's "enhanced interrogation" practices, officials familiar with the matter said.

The CIA and one of its two main congressional overseers, the Senate Intelligence Committee, have traded accusations that each inappropriately intruded into computer systems containing highly classified data about the Bush-era practices, which human rights activists have described as torture.

Lenovo Group Ltd. (LNVGY) has turned to national security insiders to win U.S. approval to buy Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Motorola Mobility phone unit and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)’s low-end server business, people familiar with the two deals said.

AT&T is paid $10 million annually by the CIA to share call data, reports The Times. Such deals are likely to complicate a Vodafone acquisition.

AT&T is paid more than $10 million a year to help the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with its "overseas counterterrorism investigations," The New York Times reported Nov. 7. AT&T has a voluntary contract with the CIA, and is "not under subpoenas or court orders compelling the company to participate," said the report, citing government officials.

The cia.gov site was unavailable around 3.50pm ET, allegedly due to a Denial of Service(DDS)-attack from hackers affiliated with the group UGNazi. 

The site block was initially claimed by Anonymous after the group tweeted: "CIA TANGO DOWN", but later it admitted fellow hacktivists UGNazi had instead brought down the site.

By 6pm cia.gov was back up and running. The CIA did not confirm the attack but said they were "looking into these reports". Hacktivists also reportedly attacked the website for the United Nations.