After “Dark Times” in Pretrial Detention, Reality Winner Sought Closure in Plea Deal
Winner has seen “dark times” during pretrial detention in the small county jail, where she struggles with depression and an eating disorder.
National Security
Whistleblower Reality Winner, Charged Under the Espionage Act for Helping to Inform Public of Russian Election Meddling, Pleads Guilty
Reality Winner agreed to a sentence of 63 months in prison and three years of supervised release as part of her plea deal.
Snowden Archive
The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
These fortress-like AT&T buildings are central to a secret NSA program that has monitored billions of communications, documents and sources reveal.
Ghosts of Guantánamo
Force-Feeding, Fasting, and Big Macs: the Doublespeak of Food at Guantánamo
A cultural adviser for the U.S. military at Guantánamo made much of the accommodations for Muslim diets, adding that hunger strikers were “faking” their fasts.
Supreme Court Rules That the U.S. Government Must Get a Warrant Before Accessing Cellphone Location Data
The justices agreed that the law has failed to keep pace with the amount of intrusive data we voluntarily hand over to private companies.
Drone Wars
The U.S. Has Conducted 550 Drone Strikes in Libya Since 2011 — More Than in Somalia, Yemen, or Pakistan
Libya has served as a laboratory for new drone warfare tactics.
Election Insecurity
State Election Officials Didn’t Know About Russian Hacking Threat Until They Read It in the News, Emails Show
The officials were unaware that Russia was trying to infiltrate their voting systems until months after the elections took place.
Making a Killing
The U.S. Is Exacerbating the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis by Outsourcing Its Yemen Policy
The attack on Hodeidah is seen as a failure by the U.S. to restrain its coalition partners, who depend on American weapons, intelligence, and logistics.
Federal “Countering Violent Extremism” Grants Focus on Minority Communities — Including in Schools
The Brennan Center for Justice examines “CVE” grants focusing on minority communities, which critics say are just a new approach to surveillance.
Who Cares What Trump “Gives” North Korea at the Summit? What Matters Is Preventing Him From Starting a Nuclear War.
We should all pray that Tuesday is the beginning of long, drawn-out negotiations — whether extremely successful or empty and fruitless.