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CIA Chief Panetta Provides Economic Intel Brief


Posted: 25 Feb 2009 10:50 PM PST



Highlighting the potential impact the worldwide economic
downturn may have on global security and foreign policy,

new CIA Director Leon Panetta said today that the agency is

now producing a new daily intelligence document for

President Obama and other top officials that focuses on economic

issues.


Panetta says the new intelligence product, known as the
Economic Intelligence Brief, is intended to make sure that

policymakers “aren’t surprised by the implications of the

worldwide economic crisis.”


The first brief was presented to the White House this morning,
after a request
from the Obama administration, Panetta said.

He said the briefs would “cover overseas developments –-
economic, political,
leadership developments,” as well as “the

implications of those developments in terms of the U.S. economy.”


The new intelligence brief is another sign of the Obama
administration’s focus on
economic issues.


Since his first day in office, Obama has received daily
briefings from his economic
advisers that take
place before the long-standard security briefing focused on the

intelligence community’s daily assessment, known as the Presidential

Daily Brief.


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FBI Raids University of Floridas Nuclear Power Institute


Posted: 25 Feb 2009 10:45 PM PST



The nuclear space power institute at the University of Florida
has been
raided by the FBI.

Supervisory Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Rhew in Tallahassee
said search
warrants were served at the university’s Innovative

Nuclear Space Power and Propulsion Institute.


Rhew would not comment on the target of the investigation, but
University
of Florida spokesman Steve Orlando said the FBI was in the

office of professor Samim Anghaie, the Iranian-born director of the

institute.


Rhew would not comment on the investigation but did say no
arrest warrants
have been issued.


Court documents filed by the United States Attorney in
Tallahassee describe a
criminal and civil investigation into “fraudulent”

invoices that resulted in funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to

Professor Samim Anghaie, 59, his wife, Sousan, 54, and their two adult

sons.


Federal officials would not talk about the details of their investigation,

which UF reacted to by placing Anghaie on leave with pay. He could not

be reached for comment.


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