01 May 2018 - The Intercept

Afghan policemen destroy poppy fields in Badakhshan province, one of Afghanistan's top opium producers, on August 9, 2017. In the heart of Afghanistan's opium-farming area, police used red tractors to churn up a small field of young green opium plants in a large sandy desert. (Photo by Mohammad Sharif Shayeq/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The U.S. Quietly Released Afghanistan’s “Biggest Drug Kingpin” From Prison. Did He Cut a Deal?

Afghan policemen destroy poppy fields in Badakhshan province, one of Afghanistan's top opium producers, on August 9, 2017. In the heart of Afghanistan's opium-farming area, police used red tractors to churn up a small field of young green opium plants in a large sandy desert. (Photo by Mohammad Sharif Shayeq/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The U.S. Quietly Released Afghanistan’s “Biggest Drug Kingpin” From Prison. Did He Cut a Deal?

Afghan policemen destroy poppy fields in Badakhshan province, one of Afghanistan's top opium producers, on August 9, 2017. In the heart of Afghanistan's opium-farming area, police used red tractors to churn up a small field of young green opium plants in a large sandy desert. (Photo by Mohammad Sharif Shayeq/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The U.S. Quietly Released Afghanistan’s “Biggest Drug Kingpin” From Prison. Did He Cut a Deal?

Before his arrest, Haji Juma Khan worked with the CIA and the DEA while aiding the Taliban and trading tons of heroin and opium.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 26: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt (2nd L) arrives at Rayburn House Office Building to testify at a hearing before the Environment Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee April 26, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Pruitt testified on his agency's FY2019 budget proposal, and nearly a dozen federal inquiries into his travel expenses, security practices and other issues. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

EPA Adviser Albert Kelly Resigned Amid Ethics Inquiries. Is Scott Pruitt Next?

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 26: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt (2nd L) arrives at Rayburn House Office Building to testify at a hearing before the Environment Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee April 26, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Pruitt testified on his agency's FY2019 budget proposal, and nearly a dozen federal inquiries into his travel expenses, security practices and other issues. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

EPA Adviser Albert Kelly Resigned Amid Ethics Inquiries. Is Scott Pruitt Next?

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 26: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt (2nd L) arrives at Rayburn House Office Building to testify at a hearing before the Environment Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee April 26, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Pruitt testified on his agency's FY2019 budget proposal, and nearly a dozen federal inquiries into his travel expenses, security practices and other issues. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

EPA Adviser Albert Kelly Resigned Amid Ethics Inquiries. Is Scott Pruitt Next?

Albert Kelly, a longtime associate of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, was overseeing the Superfund program. Last year, he was banned for life by the FDIC.

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - SEPTEMBER 16: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by the U.S. Military prior to transmission.) A U.S. military guard carries shackles before moving a detainee inside the U.S. detention center for "enemy combatants" on September 16, 2010 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. With attempts by the Obama administration to close the facility stalled, some 170 detainees remain at the detention center, which was opened by the Bush administration after the attacks of 9/11. The facility is run by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, located on the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay on the southeastern coast of Cuba. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

New Bipartisan Bill Could Give Any President the Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military Detention Forever

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - SEPTEMBER 16: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by the U.S. Military prior to transmission.) A U.S. military guard carries shackles before moving a detainee inside the U.S. detention center for "enemy combatants" on September 16, 2010 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. With attempts by the Obama administration to close the facility stalled, some 170 detainees remain at the detention center, which was opened by the Bush administration after the attacks of 9/11. The facility is run by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, located on the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay on the southeastern coast of Cuba. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

New Bipartisan Bill Could Give Any President the Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military Detention Forever

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - SEPTEMBER 16: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by the U.S. Military prior to transmission.) A U.S. military guard carries shackles before moving a detainee inside the U.S. detention center for "enemy combatants" on September 16, 2010 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. With attempts by the Obama administration to close the facility stalled, some 170 detainees remain at the detention center, which was opened by the Bush administration after the attacks of 9/11. The facility is run by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, located on the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay on the southeastern coast of Cuba. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

New Bipartisan Bill Could Give Any President the Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military Detention Forever

A new Authorization to Use Military Force, supposedly aimed at restricting presidential power, could expand it in a terrifying way.

A picture taken on January 16, 2018 shows a Syrian man holding an undetonated mine that was left by the Islamic State (IS) group in Raqa.The Islamic State group was ousted from its de facto Syrian capital Raqa in October, but it left an ocean of mines scattered across the ravaged city. / AFP PHOTO / Delil souleiman (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Syrians Are Returning to Homes in Raqqa Littered with Land Mines, but the U.S. May Cut Funds for Clearing the City

A picture taken on January 16, 2018 shows a Syrian man holding an undetonated mine that was left by the Islamic State (IS) group in Raqa.The Islamic State group was ousted from its de facto Syrian capital Raqa in October, but it left an ocean of mines scattered across the ravaged city. / AFP PHOTO / Delil souleiman (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Making a Killing

Syrians Are Returning to Homes in Raqqa Littered with Land Mines, but the U.S. May Cut Funds for Clearing the City

A picture taken on January 16, 2018 shows a Syrian man holding an undetonated mine that was left by the Islamic State (IS) group in Raqa.The Islamic State group was ousted from its de facto Syrian capital Raqa in October, but it left an ocean of mines scattered across the ravaged city. / AFP PHOTO / Delil souleiman (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Making a Killing

Syrians Are Returning to Homes in Raqqa Littered with Land Mines, but the U.S. May Cut Funds for Clearing the City

Residents of Raqqa have been killed and mutilated by explosives left by ISIS, finding them hidden inside refrigerators, teddy bears, and even under Qurans.

Friends and relatives of Agence France Presse (AFP) Afghanistan Chief Photographer Shah Marai Faizi gather at his burial in Gul Dara, Kabul on April 30, 2018, after his death in the second of two bombings that occurred in the Afghan capital. - Friends and colleagues of Shah Marai have reacted with shock and grief to news of the veteran AFP photographer's death in Kabul. Marai, who leaves behind six children, was one of at least nine journalists killed in twin suicide bomb attacks that rocked the Afghan capital. At least another 16 people were killed in the blasts. (Photo by Andrew Quilty / POOL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (Photo credit should read ANDREW QUILTY/AFP/Getty Images)

Ten Journalists Were Just Killed in Afghanistan. Please STFU About the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Friends and relatives of Agence France Presse (AFP) Afghanistan Chief Photographer Shah Marai Faizi gather at his burial in Gul Dara, Kabul on April 30, 2018, after his death in the second of two bombings that occurred in the Afghan capital. - Friends and colleagues of Shah Marai have reacted with shock and grief to news of the veteran AFP photographer's death in Kabul. Marai, who leaves behind six children, was one of at least nine journalists killed in twin suicide bomb attacks that rocked the Afghan capital. At least another 16 people were killed in the blasts. (Photo by Andrew Quilty / POOL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (Photo credit should read ANDREW QUILTY/AFP/Getty Images)

Ten Journalists Were Just Killed in Afghanistan. Please STFU About the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Friends and relatives of Agence France Presse (AFP) Afghanistan Chief Photographer Shah Marai Faizi gather at his burial in Gul Dara, Kabul on April 30, 2018, after his death in the second of two bombings that occurred in the Afghan capital. - Friends and colleagues of Shah Marai have reacted with shock and grief to news of the veteran AFP photographer's death in Kabul. Marai, who leaves behind six children, was one of at least nine journalists killed in twin suicide bomb attacks that rocked the Afghan capital. At least another 16 people were killed in the blasts. (Photo by Andrew Quilty / POOL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (Photo credit should read ANDREW QUILTY/AFP/Getty Images)

Ten Journalists Were Just Killed in Afghanistan. Please STFU About the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner touches on everything that is lucratively diseased in Washington journalism.