In October 2018, Clare Lopez, a far-right activist and longtime top figure at the anti-Muslim group Center for Security Policy, wrote to a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security expecting a receptive audience. After all, the recipient of the email was… Read More ›
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Amid Terror Warnings, Railroad Industry Group Passed Intel on Environmental Journalist to Cops
Environmental reporter Justin Mikulka was unnerved as he scanned through the pages. “A friend had contacted me and said that he had found some documents with my name in them,” Mikulka recalled to The Intercept. “He told me I really… Read More ›
Operation Legend Is Bringing Surveillance Tech to Cities
In August, 40 federal agents arrived in Memphis. Some were already on the ground by the time U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant announced the onset of Operation Legend and the city became, along with St. Louis, the seventh to be targeted… Read More ›
Georgia Democrat Drops Out, Paving the Way for QAnon Candidate to Enter Congress
A sign showing support for Marjorie Taylor Greene is seen on a vehicle outside an election watch event, late Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Rome, Ga. Photo: AP/Mike Stewart. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican nominee for Congress in northern Georgia… Read More ›
BlueLeaks Documents Bolster Whistleblower Account of Intelligence Tampering at Homeland Security
If Chad Wolf, the man currently running the largest law enforcement agency in the country, had any idea of what was coming, he didn’t show it. On Wednesday, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security stood before his… Read More ›
Surveillance in an Era of Pandemic and Protest
LIVE: Monday, September 21 at 3 p.m. ET As this summer of pandemic and racial justice protests draws to a close, Naomi Klein will host a landmark conversation between Shoshana Zuboff, author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” and Simone Browne,… Read More ›
3,000 Dead on 9/11 Meant Everything. 200,000 Dead of Covid-19 Means Nothing. Here's Why.
A supporter of President Donald Trump wears a Trump mask in Miami, on May 10, 2020. Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images Lots of people have ridiculed President Donald Trump for telling journalist Bob Woodward that he “wanted to always play [Covid-19]… Read More ›
Journalism's New Propaganda Tool: Using "Confirmed" to Mean its Opposite
One of the most humiliating journalism debacles of the Trump era played out on December 8, 2017, first on CNN and then on MSNBC. The spectacle kicked off on that Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. when CNN, deploying its most melodramatic music and graphics designed… Read More ›
Rebuilding the Economy Will Require Joe Biden to Think Very Differently Than 2009
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks on the third plank of his “Build Back Better” economic recovery plan for working families, on July 21, 2020, in New Castle, Del. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Joe Biden’s invocation of Franklin Roosevelt’s New… Read More ›
Doorbell Cameras Like Ring Give Early Warning of Police Searches, FBI Warned
The rise of the internet-connected home security camera has generally been a boon to police, as owners of these devices can (and frequently do) share footage with cops at the touch of a button. But according to a leaked FBI… Read More ›