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• Top NSA Official Has a Lucrative Side-Business

  By theintercept on October 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  A new report suggests that a high-ranking NSA official may have a profitable side-gig in the “electronics” business. Last month a Buzzfeed’s Aram Roston published a story documenting potential self-dealing by the head NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, Teresa O’Shea. O’Shea happens to be… Read More ›

• Remembering Rick Piltz, Who Fought Government Suppression of Science

  By theintercept on October 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Rick Piltz, a climate change whistleblower, died this weekend of cancer. Piltz revealed in 2005 that the Bush administration was revising supposedly scientific reports to cast doubt on the existence of human-caused climate change. He leaked copies of the edited… Read More ›

• How the UAE Tried to Silence a Popular Arab Spring Activist

  By theintercept on October 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Earlier this year, as a wave of counterrevolution and repression continued to roll back popular democratic uprisings across the Middle East, one of the Arab Spring’s most popular online activists found himself sitting in a jail cell. Iyad el-Baghdadi, a… Read More ›

• Ebola Fears Turn Into an Epidemic of Racism and Hysteria

  By theintercept on October 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Thus far, there have been just eight confirmed cases of Ebola in the United States following an outbreak in West Africa. Far more contagious here has been a new virus of hysteria — and of the sort of ignorant discrimination… Read More ›

• Surprise: U.S. Drug War In Afghanistan Not Going Well

  By theintercept on October 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  A new report has found the war on drugs in Afghanistan remains colossally expensive, largely ineffective and likely to get worse. This is particularly true in the case of opium production, says the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General… Read More ›

• Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That ‘A Terrorist’ Attacked Its Soldiers

  By theintercept on October 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  (updated below – Update II) TORONTO – In Quebec on Monday, two Canadian soldiers were hit by a car driven by Martin Couture-Rouleau, a 25-year-old Canadian who, as The Globe and Mail reported, “converted to Islam recently and called himself Ahmad Rouleau.”… Read More ›

• Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges

  By theintercept on October 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  A federal jury in Washington, D.C., returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives charged with killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians and wounding scores of others in Baghdad in 2007. The jury found one guard, Nicholas Slatten, guilty of… Read More ›

• A Story About Ben Bradlee That’s Not Fucking Charming

  By theintercept on October 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  “So what have you been doing?” The question was barked out by Ben Bradlee, and the young reporter who had to come up with a quick answer was me. I had been freelancing for The Washington Post from South Korea… Read More ›

• Is Obama Stalling Until Republicans Can Bury the CIA Torture Report?

  By theintercept on October 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Continued White House foot-dragging on the declassification of a much-anticipated Senate torture report is raising concerns that the administration is holding out until Republicans take over the chamber and kill the report themselves. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s intelligence committee sent a… Read More ›