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• James Comey, a Washington Operator, Knows How to Play the Game

  By theintercept on June 8, 2017 • ( )

  Former FBI Director James Comey cut an impressive figure during his sworn testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. His presentation was poised, low-key, and almost cold-blooded as he laid out what amounted to a meticulously constructed case against… Read More ›

• Top Spies Stonewall Congress About Their Talks With Trump on James Comey and Russia

  By theintercept on June 7, 2017 • ( )

  On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that he would not invoke executive privilege to keep the public from hearing the truth from James Comey about his reported attempts to sideline the FBI’s investigation into his Russia ties. On Wednesday, it… Read More ›

• Intercepted Podcast: The Woman Democrats Love to Hate

  By theintercept on June 7, 2017 • ( )

  Subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here.   The Green Party’s presidential candidate Jill Stein has been widely attacked by Democrats simply for running for president. Some blame… Read More ›

• Sen. Mark Warner Says Russian Hacking Was “Much Broader Than Has Been Reported So Far”

  By theintercept on June 6, 2017 • ( )

  Russian government attempts to hack into U.S. election infrastructure were “much broader” than what was laid out in a report Monday in The Intercept, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top-ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, told USA Today in an interview… Read More ›

• Private Toll Operators Salivate Over Donald Trump’s Infrastructure Plan

  By theintercept on June 6, 2017 • ( )

  Investors are hoping to seize upon the $1 trillion infrastructure plan proposed by President Donald Trump to transform the nation’s highways, bridges, and tunnels into assets they can monetize by adding tolls and other user fees. The Trump infrastructure plan, which… Read More ›

• Fifty Years Later, NSA Keeps Details of Israel’s USS Liberty Attack Secret

  By theintercept on June 6, 2017 • ( )

  On June 8, 1967, an Israeli torpedo tore through the side of the unarmed American naval vessel USS Liberty, approximately a dozen miles off the Sinai coast. The ship, whose crew was under command of the National Security Agency, was… Read More ›

• Statement on Justice Department Allegations

  By theintercept on June 6, 2017 • ( )

  On June 5 The Intercept published a story about a top-secret NSA document that was provided to us completely anonymously. Shortly after the article was posted, the Justice Department announced the arrest of Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old government contractor… Read More ›

• Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election

  By theintercept on June 5, 2017 • ( )

  Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained… Read More ›

• Standing Rock Documents Expose Inner Workings of “Surveillance-Industrial Complex”

  By theintercept on June 3, 2017 • ( )

  

  On a freezing night in November, as police sprayed nonviolent Dakota Access Pipeline opponents with water hoses and rubber bullets, representatives of the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, North Dakota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office, and local law enforcement agencies frantically… Read More ›

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