The InterceptNews (U.S.)I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights andThe Intercept - Seth Harp I should have kept my mouth shut about the guacamole; that made things worse for me. Otherwise, what I’m about to describe could happen to any …
The InterceptNational Security In Guantánamo Case, U.S. Government Says It Can Indefinitely Detain Anyone — Even U.S. CitizensThe Intercept - Murtaza Hussain For over 17 years, Moath al-Alwi has been held at Guantánamo Bay without charge. A Yemeni citizen, al-Alwi is one of Guantánamo’s “forever …
The InterceptNational Security Team of American Hackers and Emirati Spies Discussed Attacking The InterceptThe Intercept - Sam BiddleMatthew Cole Operatives at a controversial cybersecurity firm working for the United Arab Emirates government discussed targeting The Intercept and breaching the …
The InterceptNational Security UAE Enlisted Businessman to Spy On Trump White HouseThe Intercept - Alex EmmonsMatthew Cole n January 2017, three days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a businessman from the United Arab Emirates was invited to a lavish dinner …
The InterceptAmazon Web Services Amazon Offered Job to Pentagon Official Involved With $10 Billion Contract It SoughtThe Intercept - Alex Emmons In a federal lawsuit, the tech giant Oracle has provided new details to support its accusation that Amazon secretly negotiated a job offer with a …
The InterceptNational Security The Media Loves This UFO Expert Who Says He Worked for an Obscure Pentagon Program. Did He?The Intercept - Keith Kloor One of the first images in the opening episode of the new History Channel show “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation” is a 2017 headline …
The InterceptNational Security Meltdown Showed Extent of NSA Surveillance — and Other Tales From Hundreds of Intelligence DocumentsThe Intercept - Margot WilliamsHenrik MoltkeMicah LeeRyan Gallagher The problem had been brewing for nearly a decade, intelligence sources had warned, as the National Security Agency vacuumed up more and more …
The InterceptNational Security Agency (NSA) Mission Creep: How the NSA’s Game-Changing Targeting System Built for Iraq and Afghanistan Ended Up on the Mexican BorderThe Intercept - Henrik Moltke In November 2005, two terminals for a new secure communications platform arrived at the U.S. military base at Bagram Airfield, outside Afghanistan’s …
The InterceptJohn Walker Lindh Is “Terrorist Recidivism” Real?The Intercept - Trevor Aaronson John Walker Lindh was the first big catch of the so-called U.S. war on terror. A Californian who had converted to Islam, Lindh was captured in …
The Intercept The Trump Administration Is Declaring a Fake Emergency to Sell Weapons to Saudi ArabiaThe Intercept - Alex Emmons The Trump administration chose the Friday afternoon before Memorial Day weekend to invoke an obscure state-of-emergency provision that would allow it …
The Intercept The Indictment of Julian Assange Under the Espionage Act Is a Threat to the Press and the American PeopleThe Intercept - James Risen A true democracy does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A nation in which a leader gets to make that decision is on the road to …
The Intercept Charging Julian Assange With Espionage Could Make His Extradition to U.S. Less LikelyThe Intercept - Robert Mackey By charging Julian Assange with 17 violations of America’s World War I-era Espionage Act on Thursday, federal prosecutors in Virginia might have …
The Intercept Senate Committee Votes to Raise Defense Spending for Second Year in a Row to $750 BillionThe Intercept - Alex Emmons The Senate Armed Services Committee advanced a major defense spending bill in a closed session this week, agreeing to the Trump administration’s $750 …
The Intercept Democrats Running for President Are Waking Up to the Danger of War With IranThe Intercept - Alex EmmonsAkela LacyJon Schwarz In a sign of growing Democratic concern that U.S.-Iran tensions could escalate to all-out war, four of the seven senators running for the 2020 …
The Intercept Four Simple Steps the U.S. Media Could Take to Prevent a Trump War With IranThe Intercept - Mehdi Hasan Here we go again. Sixteen years after the U.S. media helped the Bush administration spread myths and lies about the threat posed by Iraq to the …
The Intercept France Takes Unprecedented Action Against Reporters Who Published Secret Government DocumentThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher Journalists in France are facing potential jail sentences in an unprecedented case over their handling of secret documents detailing the country’s …
The Intercept Collapse of USS Cole Bombing Case Marks Another Failure for Guantanamo’s Military CourtsThe Intercept - Shilpa Jindia A protracted legal saga at Guantánamo Bay ended last month, when a federal court tossed out two years of rulings by the judge overseeing the military …
The InterceptPlay button How Turkey Defied the U.S. and Became a Killer Drone PowerThe Intercept - Umar Farooq Finding oneself in the crosshairs of a military drone is, for most people, not the most comforting situation. Yet at an air show last fall, tens of …
The Intercept Intercepted Podcast: Everywhere Is War: The American Threat to Iran, Venezuela, and WomenThe Intercept - Intercepted Subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. John …
The Intercept Did Donald Trump’s Grip on the Justice Department Sabotage Robert Mueller’s Investigation?The Intercept - James Risen Through his unrelenting efforts to obstruct the Trump-Russia investigation since its inception, President Donald Trump has inflicted a slow-motion …
The Intercept The Pentagon Is Reporting Low Civilian Death Tolls in Syria and Iraq. Without Accountability, People Will Keep Dying.The Intercept - Laila Ujayli Last Thursday, the Department of Defense released a report to Congress laying out its latest data for civilian casualties caused by U.S. military …
The Intercept How to Dismantle the Absurd Profitability of Nuclear WeaponsThe Intercept - Jon Schwarz The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists currently has its Doomsday Clock set to two minutes to midnight — the closest we’ve been to self-obliteration …
The Intercept Intercepted Podcast: Shadow Players: Erik Prince, Julian Assange, and the Bizarre World of TrumpThe Intercept - Intercepted Subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click …
The Intercept Unanswered Questions in the Mueller Report Point to a Sprawling Russian Spy GameThe Intercept - James Risen Throughout Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Paul Manafort had a target on his back. The former …
The Intercept Coalition Airstrikes in Raqqa Killed at Least 1,600 Civilians, More Than 10 Times U.S. Tally, Report FindsThe Intercept - Alex Emmons On the morning of September 5, 2017, Mohannad al-Tadfi rushed over to his brother’s six-story apartment building in Raqqa, Syria. Mohannad’s brother, …
The Intercept What the Mueller Report Didn’t Say About Felix Sater and the Trump Tower in MoscowThe Intercept - Johnny Dwyer The redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report contained quite a bit of information about the perfidy of the Trump White House, the …
The InterceptPlay button Robert Mueller Did Not Merely Reject the Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theories. He Obliterated Them.The Intercept - Glenn Greenwald The two-pronged conspiracy theory that has dominated U.S. political discourse for almost three years – that (1) Trump, his family and his campaign …
The Intercept Julian Assange Suffered Severe Psychological and Physical Harm in Ecuadorian Embassy, Doctors SayThe Intercept - James Risen An American doctor who conducted several medical and mental health evaluations of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside Ecuador’s Embassy in London …
The Intercept Secret Report Reveals Saudi Incompetence and Widespread Use of U.S. Weapons in YemenThe Intercept - Alex Emmons Since the brutal murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi last October, Congress has increasingly pressured the …
