The Crimes of SEAL Team 6
Behind the heroic narratives of SEAL Team 6 is a darker, more troubling story of criminal brutality and war crimes.
John Thomason
John Thomason is the articles editor at Grist and the former Research Editor at The Intercept.
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Foreign Influence
Gary Locke, While Obama’s Ambassador to China, Got a Chinese Tycoon to Buy His House
The revelation of a substantial financial transaction between an American diplomat and a prominent citizen of the host country in which he was serving raises ethical flags.
Foreign Influence
Meet the Chinese Husband-and-Wife Team Whose Company Spent $1.3 Million Trying to Make Jeb Bush President
Gordon Tang and Huaidan Chen have cultivated ties to American politicians through campaign contributions and other investments.
Foreign Influence
How a Top GOP Lawyer Guided a Chinese-Owned Company Into U.S. Presidential Politics
With advice from Republican power lawyer Charlie Spies, APIC, a company owned by Chinese nationals, donated $1.3 million to Jeb Bush’s Super PAC.
Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing
While patients and more than 100 employees and caretakers slept in the Kunduz Trauma Center, an American AC-130 gunship prepared to strike the MSF hospital.
Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts
The company has cultivated unprecedented ties to the government not only by lobbying but sharing its digital expertise, raising questions about undue influence.
What We Know and Don’t Know About Mass Shootings and Gun Deaths
Public massacres are hard to talk about, not just because they are frightening and unpredictable, but because we just don’t know that much about them.
Inside Erik Prince’s Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force
Erik Prince used his publicly traded company, Frontier Services Group, to disguise his secret plans to develop light attack aircraft for use in a mercenary air force.