News you may have missed #0001

• New book reveals Israel knew USS Liberty was American before bombing it in 1967. The Israelis have always claimed the bombing of the NSA ship was a mistake, but recently declassified information points to a deliberate attack.
• Colombian intelligence spied on Human Rights Watch director, churches. A new 300-page report reveals near-unprecedented privacy abuses by the Colombian secret services.
• CIA slowly adopting collaborative wikis. It’s taking the agency quite some time to shed its culture of secrecy and suspicion, even between its own internal offices.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation says DoJ conducts backdoor wiretaps. Close encounters with ISPs are allegedly behind the DoJ’s continuing disregard for communications interception regulations.