Cora Currier
Cora Currier is a freelance editor in Los Angeles. A former story editor and reporter at The Intercept, she has written on war, surveillance, immigration, and other topics. She previously worked at ProPublica and the New Yorker, and her writing has appeared in Bookforum, the New Republic, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is a co-founding editor of the feminist magazine Lux.
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Al Jazeera Journalist Responds to U.S. Labeling Him Al Qaeda
Islamabad bureau chief Ahmad Zaidan spoke to <em>The Intercept</em> about being tracked by the U.S. government. “To monitor and bug journalists is absolutely immoral and unethical,” he said.
Snowden Archive
The NSA Plan to Find Bin Laden by Hiding Tracking Devices in Medical Supplies
The NSA concocted a top-secret plan to find bin Laden by "tagging and tracking medications/supplies" to cross the “non-electronic moat" around the ailing terrorist leader.
Snowden Archive
What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid
Secret documents related to the Abbottabad raid neither prove nor disprove Seymour Hersh’s controversial account but do add context.
Mexican Authorities Implicated in Violence, But U.S. Security Aid Still Flows
Documents show that the U.S. is well aware that its support is going to Mexican authorities connected to abuses, but only very rarely has anything been done in response.
Snowden Archive
U.S. Government Designated Prominent Al Jazeera Journalist as "Member of Al Qaeda"
The U.S. labeled a prominent journalist a member of the terror group, according to a top-secret document.
Emails Reveal Close Relationship Between Psychology Group and CIA
The messages show connections between the American Psychological Association and the psychologists who helped create the architecture of the CIA’s torture program.
Media Sues to Get Letters from Top Officials in Support of Petraeus
First Look Media joined <em>The New York Times</em>, Bloomberg, the Associated Press, <em>The Washington Post</em> and other media in lawsuit.
Military Pursued Concealable Lie Detector for Interrogations
A short-lived Army experiment aspired to analyze the human face for signs of stress and deception during interrogations.
Drone Wars
Secret Details of Drone Strike Revealed As Unprecedented Case Goes to German Court
A secret report indicates the U.S. knew a drone strike in Yemen killed an anti-Al Qaeda cleric.