He Declined the FBI's Offer to Become an Informant. Then His Life Was Ruined.
Aswad Khan declined to become an FBI informant. His friends began getting questioned at the U.S. border.
National Security
Ghosts of Guantánamo
Lawyers for Accused 9/11 Plotters Say Government Withheld Public Information
The sanitized summaries of CIA cables provided by the prosecution leave out vital details that journalists and others have obtained using FOIA.
Targeting Iran
Dark-Money Group Linked to Anti-Iran, Pro-Israel Network Targets Turkey but Has No Turks
The Turkish Democracy Project shares leadership and personnel with the most well-funded foreign policy pressure network in Washington.
From Bush to Obama, and Trump to Biden, U.S. Militarism Is the Great Unifier
Joe Biden's presidency demonstrates, once again, that U.S. commitments to militarism and permanent global war are enduring and bipartisan.
The U.S.-Led Bombings That Ended the ISIS "Caliphate" Killed Scores of Civilians
The aerial campaign in eastern Syria dislodged the terrorist group from the final patch of land it controlled but cost an untold number of lives.
British Wife of American ISIS Fighter Russell Dennison Dodges Questions About Union
In a new documentary, Tareena Shakil, whose marriage to Dennison was first revealed in an Intercept podcast, describes her journey to the Islamic State.
Drone Wars
No Accountability in Military Probe of Kabul Drone Strike — but Intelligence Failures Laid Bare
“They never look at the big picture. It’s never a weaponeering problem and is almost always an intelligence assessment problem that leads to these incidents."
Voices
U.S. Absolves Drone Killers and Persecutes Whistleblowers
A Pentagon report treats the killing of an Afghan family as an innocent mistake -- and upholds a U.S. tradition of excusing war crimes.
FBI Investigation of Failed Mercenary Plot Delves Into Role of Erik Prince
Investigators are probing Prince’s involvement in the attempted sale of Jordanian military equipment as part of a 2019 plan to help self-declared Libyan leader Khalifa Hifter.
“The Spoils of War”: How Profits Rather Than Empire Define Success for the Pentagon
Andrew Cockburn’s new book is an incredible compendium of avarice and folly.