June 2015 - The Intercept

FILE - This May 27, 2008 file photo shows the gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. Texas prison officials say they’ve secured a new supply of pentobarbital that will allow the nation’s most active death penalty state to continue executions. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark also said the prison agency is not identifying the source of the new drug inventory because of threats made against previous suppliers when they were identified as a provider of lethal injection drugs. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

What Justice Breyer’s Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty’s Defenders

FILE - This May 27, 2008 file photo shows the gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. Texas prison officials say they’ve secured a new supply of pentobarbital that will allow the nation’s most active death penalty state to continue executions. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark also said the prison agency is not identifying the source of the new drug inventory because of threats made against previous suppliers when they were identified as a provider of lethal injection drugs. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

What Justice Breyer’s Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty’s Defenders

FILE - This May 27, 2008 file photo shows the gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. Texas prison officials say they’ve secured a new supply of pentobarbital that will allow the nation’s most active death penalty state to continue executions. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark also said the prison agency is not identifying the source of the new drug inventory because of threats made against previous suppliers when they were identified as a provider of lethal injection drugs. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

What Justice Breyer’s Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty’s Defenders

Alongside a flimsy majority opinion in Glossip v. Gross, Justice Breyer's dissent exposed just how much cruelty must be tolerated to defend the death penalty in 2015.

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First Look Joins Legal Fight Over Hulk Hogan Sex Tape

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First Look Joins Legal Fight Over Hulk Hogan Sex Tape

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First Look Joins Legal Fight Over Hulk Hogan Sex Tape

First Look Media, owner and publisher of The Intercept, today filed a motion objecting to Hulk Hogan's request that the public and press be prevented from seeing Hogan's sex tape during Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker.

Bulk Phone Surveillance Lives Again, to Die in a More Orderly Fashion in Five Months

Bulk Phone Surveillance Lives Again, to Die in a More Orderly Fashion in Five Months

Bulk Phone Surveillance Lives Again, to Die in a More Orderly Fashion in Five Months

A federal judge reinstated the NSA bulk domestic surveillance that was temporarily halted a month ago, allowing the agency to go back to hoovering up metadata while it unwinds the program for good.

Democratic presidential candidate former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley speaks to supporters at his campaign headquarters, Saturday, May 30, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Does Clinton Rival Martin O’Malley Have an Email Scandal of His Own?

Spencer Woodman

Democratic presidential candidate former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley speaks to supporters at his campaign headquarters, Saturday, May 30, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Does Clinton Rival Martin O’Malley Have an Email Scandal of His Own?

Spencer Woodman

Democratic presidential candidate former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley speaks to supporters at his campaign headquarters, Saturday, May 30, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Does Clinton Rival Martin O’Malley Have an Email Scandal of His Own?

Spencer Woodman

The former Maryland governor has avoided public access to his Gmail archive — relying on an apparently secret legal interpretation according to which the governor’s office does not always count as a state agency.

MANAMA, BAHRAIN - FEBRUARY 18: Protesters run from a cloud of teargas during a clash with Bahraini security forces near the Pearl roundabout on February 18, 2011 in Manama, Bahrain. Protesters said that the army fired on them with live rounds, followed by teargas which drove the demonstrators back. There are unconfirmed reports that there are four dead in the clashes. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

U.S. Will Resume Sending Weapons to Bahrain Despite Ongoing Repression

Jenna McLaughlin

MANAMA, BAHRAIN - FEBRUARY 18: Protesters run from a cloud of teargas during a clash with Bahraini security forces near the Pearl roundabout on February 18, 2011 in Manama, Bahrain. Protesters said that the army fired on them with live rounds, followed by teargas which drove the demonstrators back. There are unconfirmed reports that there are four dead in the clashes. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

U.S. Will Resume Sending Weapons to Bahrain Despite Ongoing Repression

Jenna McLaughlin

MANAMA, BAHRAIN - FEBRUARY 18: Protesters run from a cloud of teargas during a clash with Bahraini security forces near the Pearl roundabout on February 18, 2011 in Manama, Bahrain. Protesters said that the army fired on them with live rounds, followed by teargas which drove the demonstrators back. There are unconfirmed reports that there are four dead in the clashes. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

U.S. Will Resume Sending Weapons to Bahrain Despite Ongoing Repression

Jenna McLaughlin

The State Department announced it will lift its freeze on arms sales to the repressive government of Bahrain on Monday, despite the country’s myriad human rights abuses in recent years, including arbitrary detention of children, torture, restrictions for journalists and a brutal government crackdown on peaceful protestors in 2011. “The Administration has decided to lift […]

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama (2-L) and President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff (2-R) visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, with National Park Service National Mall Superintendent Karen Laura Cucurullo (Front R), June 29, 2015 in Washington DC. Rousseff visits Washington DC for the first time since she became president in 2011. (Photo by Michael Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images)

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s Flip-Flop on NSA Spying

Jenna McLaughlin

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama (2-L) and President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff (2-R) visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, with National Park Service National Mall Superintendent Karen Laura Cucurullo (Front R), June 29, 2015 in Washington DC. Rousseff visits Washington DC for the first time since she became president in 2011. (Photo by Michael Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images)

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s Flip-Flop on NSA Spying

Jenna McLaughlin

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama (2-L) and President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff (2-R) visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, with National Park Service National Mall Superintendent Karen Laura Cucurullo (Front R), June 29, 2015 in Washington DC. Rousseff visits Washington DC for the first time since she became president in 2011. (Photo by Michael Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images)

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s Flip-Flop on NSA Spying

Jenna McLaughlin

Two years after she cancelled her state visit to Washington in outrage over revelations that the U.S. had spied on her, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is back in Washington, taking a decidedly more friendly approach to President Barack Obama. News articles in July 2013 based on documents provided by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden […]

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 09: U.S. President Barack Obama talks signs an Executive Order to cut waste and promote efficient spending across the federal government in the Oval Office at the White House on November 9, 2011 in Washington, DC. The order cuts spending on travel, technology devices and promotional items. (Photo by Yuri Gripas-Pool/Getty Images)

Obama Could Fix Dark Money, But Would Rather Just Yell at Republicans About It

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 09: U.S. President Barack Obama talks signs an Executive Order to cut waste and promote efficient spending across the federal government in the Oval Office at the White House on November 9, 2011 in Washington, DC. The order cuts spending on travel, technology devices and promotional items. (Photo by Yuri Gripas-Pool/Getty Images)

Obama Could Fix Dark Money, But Would Rather Just Yell at Republicans About It

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 09: U.S. President Barack Obama talks signs an Executive Order to cut waste and promote efficient spending across the federal government in the Oval Office at the White House on November 9, 2011 in Washington, DC. The order cuts spending on travel, technology devices and promotional items. (Photo by Yuri Gripas-Pool/Getty Images)

Obama Could Fix Dark Money, But Would Rather Just Yell at Republicans About It

President Obama has been denouncing "dark money" since 2010, when he declared it a "threat to our democracy." But Obama doesn't need Congress to force dark money into the sunlight.

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, testifies during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee July 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony from the panelists on "Closing Guantanamo: The National Security, Fiscal, and Human Rights Implications." (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Center for Security Policy Compares Islamic Religion to the Plague

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, testifies during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee July 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony from the panelists on "Closing Guantanamo: The National Security, Fiscal, and Human Rights Implications." (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Center for Security Policy Compares Islamic Religion to the Plague

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, testifies during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee July 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony from the panelists on "Closing Guantanamo: The National Security, Fiscal, and Human Rights Implications." (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Center for Security Policy Compares Islamic Religion to the Plague

The Center for Security Policy’s gala last Monday, a black-tie affair at the stately Metropolitan Club of New York, featured a procession of speakers warning darkly about the threat posed by the religion of Islam. Tommy Waller, a marine veteran and the legislative outreach director for the group, said he had fought the enemy on the battlefields […]

Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free

Murtaza Hussain

Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free

Murtaza Hussain

Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free

Murtaza Hussain

The U.S. government had produced “snippets of information from various sources, out of context, to weave together a narrative of terrorist ideation,” a Florida judge said Friday, ordering the release of Marcus Dwayne Robertson, an Orlando-based Islamic scholar who stood accused of supporting terrorism. Robertson, also known as “Abu Taubah,” had been incarcerated since 2011 […]

WASHINGTON - MARCH 24: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) speaks during a press conference on President Obama's proposed budget at the U.S. Capitol March 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. Republicans contend that the budget with double the size of the national debt by 2016. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Senator: Confederate Flag Removal an Attempt to Delegitimize “Fabulous Accomplishments”

WASHINGTON - MARCH 24: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) speaks during a press conference on President Obama's proposed budget at the U.S. Capitol March 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. Republicans contend that the budget with double the size of the national debt by 2016. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Senator: Confederate Flag Removal an Attempt to Delegitimize “Fabulous Accomplishments”

WASHINGTON - MARCH 24: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) speaks during a press conference on President Obama's proposed budget at the U.S. Capitol March 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. Republicans contend that the budget with double the size of the national debt by 2016. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Senator: Confederate Flag Removal an Attempt to Delegitimize “Fabulous Accomplishments”

Sen. Jeff Sessions said that calls to take down the Confederate flag are among efforts by "the left" to "delegitimize the fabulous accomplishments of our country."