News you may have missed #305

• So is America engaged in cyberwar, or not? US Army says yes, but Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration insists “there is no cyberwar” going on.
• Indian spy master among Victims of recent Kabul blast. The victims of the February 26 suicide attacks in Afghanistan included Nitish Chibber, an undercover RAW (Indian spy agency) official assigned to the Indian consulate in Kandahar.
• FBI paid racist informant ‘in excess of $100,000’. White supremacist radio talk-show host Hal Turner is being tried for threatening three Chicago-based federal appeals judges, by writing on his blog that they “deserve to be killed” for upholding a gun control ordinance. He has also disclosed that the FBI paid him “in excess of $100,000” over a five-year period.