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• Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theorist Trained Senior U.S. Marshal, National Guard Members, Documents Show

  By theintercept on May 25, 2017 • ( )

  A former FBI agent with a penchant for spreading anti-Muslim conspiracy theories trained a senior U.S. marshal, five federal contractors, and five National Guard members at a three-day event in Louisiana, according to documents obtained by The Intercept through a… Read More ›

• Join The Intercept in Documenting the Conflicts of Interest of Hundreds of Trump Appointees

  By theintercept on May 25, 2017 • ( )

  

  The Trump administration has faced a growing clamor over the glaring conflicts of interest of many of its high-level appointees. Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, is currently under investigation for his failure to report $45,000 in fees for a speech given in… Read More ›

• The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia

  By torblog on May 23, 2017 • ( )

  

  Today, in collaboration with Sinar Project, the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) released a new research report: The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia. OONI network measurement data collected from 21 local vantage points confirms the blocking of 161… Read More ›

• British Intelligence Warned Tony Blair of Manchester-Like Terrorism if the West Invaded Iraq

  By theintercept on May 23, 2017 • ( )

  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has yet to say anything about Monday’s heinous, nihilistic suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. According to current reporting, the attack has been claimed by ISIS and was carried out… Read More ›

• To Deepen Our Investigative Journalism, We’re Asking for Reader Support

  By theintercept on May 23, 2017 • ( )

  I have spent most of my adult life reporting from war and conflict zones around the world and on the front lines of social justice struggles in the United States. As a young journalist for Democracy Now! in the 1990s,… Read More ›

• Cable Industry Lobbyists Write Republican Talking Points on Net Neutrality

  By theintercept on May 23, 2017 • ( )

  Following the vote last week by the Federal Communication Commission to unwind the net neutrality rules enacted during the Obama administration, House Republican lawmakers received an email from GOP leadership on how to defend the decision. The email was shared with The… Read More ›

• Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas Has a Problem with Science – and with Voters

  By theintercept on May 20, 2017 • ( )

  

  For most of his four years as chair of the Science Committee, Republican Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas has served up more spectacle than policy. As arguably the showiest climate denier and opponent of environmental regulations in Congress, Smith has… Read More ›

• Feds Hunted Down An Undocumented Immigrant Using Controversial Phone Tracker

  By theintercept on May 19, 2017 • ( )

  As part of a dramatic uptick in the arrest and deportation of undocumented immigrants promised by President Trump, the Detroit News reports that FBI and ICE agents used a powerful, secretive device to find Rudy Carcamo-Carranza, a 23-year-old restaurant worker living in… Read More ›

• Better Call Bob! Mueller Is the Lawyer You Bring In to Handle Politically Toxic Situations

  By theintercept on May 18, 2017 • ( )

  

  When Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, he called on Washington’s consummate clean-up man. A decorated Marine in the Vietnam… Read More ›

• Don’t Lionize James Comey. The FBI Did Some Terrible Things Under Him.

  By theintercept on May 17, 2017 • ( )

  When Donald Trump asked FBI Director James Comey in February to drop the investigation of former National Security Adviser (and then-unregistered foreign agent) Michael Flynn, the president apparently didn’t realize that Comey would behave like one of his more than 13,000… Read More ›

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