On “60 Minutes,” Reality Winner Opens Up About the Motivation for Her Leak and the Psychic Toll of Her Confinement
“I knew it was secret, but I also knew that I had pledged service to the American people,” Winner said.
National Security
Daniel Hale Receives International Whistleblower Award for Drone Document Leak
The former military intelligence analyst is currently imprisoned in Illinois.
Report: Bit by Bit, the Noose Is Tightening Around the Nuclear Weapons Industry
Human beings are not necessarily destined to annihilate ourselves.
Biden to Pentagon: Keep the War Machine Running
The Biden administration released its first Global Posture Review, with the continuation of a Cold War stance toward China and Russia.
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Sues The Intercept Over Russian Mercenary Report
Mercenary Erik Prince filed a defamation lawsuit in a New York federal court after an earlier suit in Wyoming was dismissed. The Intercept stands by its reporting.
Human Rights Groups Call on Pentagon to Reinvestigate Civilian Deaths in Yemen
Activists want Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to open new investigations of past airstrikes, apologize for civilian deaths, and compensate relatives.
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.
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.