Intercepted Podcast: The Distraction in Chief
While the media overwhelmingly focuses on Trump and Russia, Yemen is dying, covert ops are spreading, and war is raging.
While the media overwhelmingly focuses on Trump and Russia, Yemen is dying, covert ops are spreading, and war is raging.
“All governments lie,” said NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. “All governments break the law. And most frequently, this happens without us realizing it.”
As opposition forces fight the government, allies of former president Chavez say his chosen successor is becoming authoritarian. And the U.S. role lingers.
Trump's homeland security transition team has private-sector background in threat-detection algorithms, facial-recognition technology, and the like.
Rep. Ro Khanna on Yemen. Col. Morris Davis discusses Bowe Bergdahl and the recent terror attack in New York. Nomi Prins explains the Paradise Papers.
One privacy activist responded: "This decision will be added to the timelines of the most significant expansions of domestic surveillance in the modern era.”
The Coalition of the Killing — gun lobbyists, politicians, and weapons manufacturers — are the only beneficiaries of the massacre in Las Vegas.
A facial recognition company is partnering with a private intelligence firm that tracks terrorists to create an Internet-based tool to scan and identify terrorists’ faces.
Privacy advocates are concerned about linking body cameras, sold to taxpayers as a tool for police accountability, with powerful technology to scan faces.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden discusses the Equifax data breach and activist Shaun King lays out his campaign to bring violent neo-Nazis to justice.
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