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Archive for August 2017
Is Donald Trump Tweeting the U.S. Into a War on North Korea?
The political burlesque show running at the White House seems to consume the overwhelming majority of attention among cable news pundits and personalities. Such attention is not entirely unfounded given the potential for criminal indictments to hit members of Donald… Read More ›
How Do Chicago Police Treat Mental Health? With SWAT Raids
On a balmy day in February, Jedidiah Brown drove onto a busy expressway in the heart of Chicago, firearm in tow, with the intention of killing himself. The South Side activist, now 30 years old, sat in his parked car… Read More ›
What’s Worse: Trump’s Campaign Agenda or Empowering Generals and CIA Operatives to Subvert it?
During his successful 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump, for better and for worse, advocated a slew of policies that attacked the most sacred prongs of long-standing bipartisan Washington consensus. As a result, he was (and continues to be) viewed as uniquely repellent… Read More ›
Videos of Baltimore Cops Allegedly Planting Evidence Test Body Camera Programs
Baltimore has been wrestling with yet another police scandal. Last month, the city public defender’s office discovered body camera footage showing a local cop placing a bag of heroin in a pile of a trash in an alley. The cop, unaware… Read More ›
Trump Signals Cuts to Unpopular “Countering Extremism” Programs, But Worse Could Be Coming
Since being rolled out under the Obama administration, “Countering Violent Extremism” programming (CVE) has been a contentious subject in the United States. Pitched as a way of working with local communities to prevent “radicalization,” such programs have existed for years in European countries, where… Read More ›
EPA Staffers Are Being Forced to Prioritize Energy Industry’s Wish List, Says Official Who Resigned in Protest
EPA staffers are spending their days addressing an industry wish list of changes to environmental law, according to Elizabeth Southerland, a former senior agency official who issued a scathing public farewell message when she ended her 30-year career there on Monday. Southerland, who most recently served… Read More ›
White House Says Russia’s Hackers Are Too Good to Be Caught but NSA Partner Called Them “Morons”
The hackers behind the dump of Democratic Party emails in the midst of last year’s presidential race left apparent evidence of their identity — a breadcrumb trail winding from the stolen files back to the Russian government, according to assessments from the U.S. intelligence… Read More ›
Intercepted Podcast: Pyongyang and the White House Gang
Subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. The developments coming out of the White House this week are like a twisted mash up of “Here Comes Honey… Read More ›
Misused Espionage Act Targets Governnent Whistleblowers
This week we celebrated National Whistleblower Appreciation Day—an appropriate time to speak out against the U.S. government’s continued use of the Espionage Act to prosecute government leakers, and in so doing, restrict the flow of important information to the press…. Read More ›