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.
Contacts:
Posts:
U.S. Scuttled Negotiations to Free American Killed in Yemen
AQAP never killed any of its foreign captives. At least until a Dec. 6 twilight raid by U.S. commandos.
UK Tribunal Says Spying Programs Are Legal
U.S. Firms Accused of Enabling Surveillance in Despotic Central Asian Regimes
Psychologists Are Rethinking Their Cozy Relationship with Bush Torture Program
Frosted Glass Falcons and Other Gifts for Your Favorite CIA Employee
CIA agents are mostly gifted rugs, so many rugs. The lucky agents get wristwatches and daggers.
Secret Cash Pays for U.S. Drone Mistakes
Victims of U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia are being compensated with large amounts of cash — but it's not officially U.S. money.
EU Scrutinizes Spyware Exports To Sketchy Regimes
The Justice Department Wants Wider Hacking Authorities for the FBI
An obscure government rule change allows federal investigators to hack into computers far more often, privacy groups say.
Hacking Team Responds in Defense of Its Spyware
CEO David Vincenzetti responded to our piece on his company's spyware manuals. Here's his letter — and our response.