Glenn Greenwald | Watch How Casually False Claims are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
...it was the press, not Snowden, which decided what stayed secret and what was reported.
Glenn Greenwald | Watch How Casually False Claims are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
...it was the press, not Snowden, which decided what stayed secret and what was reported.
Cracking Down On Dissent: The U.S. Government Has Essentially Created A Ministry of Truth
Obama's Recently-Signed National Defense Authorization Act Includes A 'Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act'. The Intercept's Alex Emmons Explains...
HERE’S THE PUBLIC EVIDENCE RUSSIA HACKED THE DNC – IT’S NOT ENOUGH
The refrain of Russian attribution has been repeated so regularly and so emphatically that it’s become easy to forget that no one has ever truly proven the claim.
Glenn Greenwald | Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit
The institutions and elite factions that have spent years mocking, maligning, and pillaging large portions of the population ...are now shocked that their dictates and decrees go unheeded.
Glenn Greenwald Calls Out Facebook for Working With Israeli Government on Censorship Plan
Facebook officials, Greenwald revealed, have laid out plans with the Israeli government on how to block material that they feel “incites violence.” This news comes at a time when the Israeli government is pushing legislation that would censor social media content from platforms its members consider disagreeable.
NSA Closely Involved in Guantanamo Interrogations, Documents Show
The NSA documents made explicit reference to the CIA working on interrogations at Guantánamo.
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why
We have collectively shared documents with more than two dozen media outlets, and teams of journalists in numerous countries have thus worked with and reported on Snowden documents ... This partnership approach has greatly expedited the reporting, and also ensured that stories that most affect specific countries are reported by the journalists who best understand those countries.
Jeremy Scahill Outlines How Obama Made Assassination Formal US Policy
I’m a white guy, and I am a journalist. I would often see Arabs and other Muslims in the detention center at JFK airport, Area B of JFK airport. I would often come in and see a room packed with people, none of whom were white. I would be called up to the desk before them, and I would be released after them.
The Drone Papers | Part 7: The Life and Death of Objective Peckham
A classified U.S. document obtained by The Intercept shines new light on the circumstances surrounding Berjawi’s death. It reveals that the U.S. government was monitoring him for at least five years as he traveled between London and Somalia; that he was targeted by a covert special operations unit ...
The Drone Papers | Part 6: Firing Blind
Flawed intelligence and the limits of drone technology The Obama administration has portrayed drones as an effective and efficient weapon in the ongoing war with al Qaeda and other radical groups. Yet classified Pentagon documents obtained by The Intercept reveal that the U.S. military has faced “critical shortfalls” in the technology and intelligence it uses More
The Drone Papers | Part 1: The Assassination Complex
Scahill: The source said he decided to provide these documents to The Intercept because he believes the public has a right to understand the process by which people are placed on kill lists and ultimately assassinated on orders from the highest echelons of the U.S. government.