Glenn Greenwald

Top political officials in other nations have repeatedly demonstrated, or even explicitly claimed, wholesale ignorance about their nations' cooperation with the NSA, as well as their own spying activities. Were these top officials truly unaware, or were they pretending to be? <!--more-->

Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process. <!--more-->

We at <em>The Intercept</em> are very excited to <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140310006461/en/John-Cook-Serve-Editor-in-Chief-Intercept#.Ux44iZxbW8q.twitter">announce our new editor-in-chief</a>, John Cook, who joins us after after serving as editor-in-chief of Gawker. <!--more-->

The vast bulk of the commentary issuing from American commentators about the Russian military action in Ukraine involves condemning exactly that which they routinely advocate and which the U.S. itself routinely does. <!--more-->

This morning, I see that some people are quite abuzz about a new Pando article "revealing" that the foundation of Pierre Omidyar, the publisher of First Look Media which publishes <em>The Intercept</em>, gave several hundred thousand dollars to a Ukraininan "pro-democracy" organization opposed to the ruling regime. <!--more-->

Moazzam Begg, a native-born British citizen of Pakistani descent, spent three years incarcerated in the most notorious detention camps created in the post-9/11 "War on Terror": all without ever being charged with any crime. <!--more-->

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. <!--more-->

I'm going to have a story published later today about a new document, but until then, this new interview with (and profile of) Director of National Intelligence James Clapper by the Daily Beast's Eli Lake is worth spending a few moments examining. <!--more-->

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-->

Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution.