Will Democrats Unite to Block Trump's Torturer, Gina Haspel, as CIA Chief? If Not, What Do They #Resist?
The bipartisan national security class has united to support a torturer as CIA chief. What will it say about Washington if she is confirmed?
James Clapper
James Clapper Has a Classified Blog. It's Called "Intercept."
He doesn’t want you to read the comments.
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What's Been Legalized
“The deeper scandal is what’s legal, not what’s not,” the ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer said of the NSA revelations. The same is true of the corrupted political and legal systems exposed by the Panama Papers.
Newly Obtained Emails Contradict Administration Claims on Guardian Laptop Destruction
Encouraging Words of Regret From Dean Baquet and Weasel Words From James Clapper
Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-Monger Over Transparency
James Clapper, President Obama's top national security official, is probably best known for having been caught lying outright to Congress about NSA activities, behavior which (as some baseball players found out) happens to be a felony under federal law. <!--more-->
The Terrible Toll of Secrecy
The Intercept's inaugural exposé, by my colleagues Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, illuminates the deeply flawed interaction between omnipresent electronic surveillance and targeted drone killings –- two of the three new, highly disruptive instruments of national power that President Obama has pursued with unanticipated enthusiasm. <!--more-->