The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
A Los Angeles Times intelligence reporter routinely submitted story drafts to the CIA for review.
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The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson
Newly Obtained Emails Contradict Administration Claims on Guardian Laptop Destruction
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-->
Keith Alexander Unplugged: on Bush/Obama, 1.7 million stolen documents and other matters
Welcome, Jordan Smith
I’m proud to announce the newest addition to the Intercept staff, award-winning investigative journalist, Jordan Smith. <!--more-->
The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency's Role in Torture for Years
From 2009 to 2012, the Obama administration went to extraordinary lengths to keep a single short phrase, describing President Bush's authorization of the torture program, secret.<!--more-->
New Photos of the NSA and Other Top Intelligence Agencies Revealed for First Time
What does a surveillance state look like? Over the past eight months, classified documents provided by Edward Snowden have exposed scores of secret government surveillance programs. Yet there is little visual material among the blizzard of code names, PowerPoint slides, court rulings and spreadsheets that have emerged from the National Security Agency’s files. <!--more-->
The NSA Has An Advice Columnist. Seriously.
An NSA official, writing under the pen name “Zelda,” has served as a Dear Abby for spies. One of her most intriguing columns responds to an NSA staffer who complains that his (or her) boss is spying on employees. <!--more-->
On the UK's Equating of Journalism With Terrorism
As my colleague Ryan Deveraux reports, a lower UK court this morning, as long expected, upheld the legality of the nine-hour detention of my partner, David Miranda, at Heathrow Airport last August, even as it acknowledged that the detention was “an indirect interference with press freedom”. <!--more-->