IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi shows journalists a camera like the ones Iran is removing from nuclear sites, during a press conference at the agency’s headquarters in Vienna on June 9, 2022. Photo: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images The nuclear… Read More ›
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The FBI Tried to Ambush My Source. Now I'm Telling the Whole Story.
FBI agent Grayden Ridd had a confidential message for his informant. An FBI team had been given the green light by the Justice Department to ambush and derail a planned meeting between a reporter and a source, and the informant’s… Read More ›
Military-Industrial Complex Is Itching to Send “Hunter-Killer” Drones to Ukraine
After failing to convince the Biden administration to ship NATO fighter jets to Ukraine, the military-industrial complex is now trying to coax the White House into sending unmanned fighter jets to counter Russia’s invasion. Kyiv reportedly met with the major… Read More ›
As the SEC Cracks Down on Shady SPACs, CIA Officials Get In on the Action
Top leadership for Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, have quietly launched a separate “blank check” fund that stands to fuel astronomical fortunes for former intelligence officials. In-Q-Tel, which receives funding and directions from the CIA, was founded by… Read More ›
American Phone-Tracking Firm Demo'd Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA and NSA
In the months leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, two obscure American startups met to discuss a potential surveillance partnership that would merge the ability to track the movements of billions of people via their phones with a constant… Read More ›
U.S. Quietly Assists Ukraine With Intelligence, Avoiding Direct Confrontation With Russia
As hawkish members of both parties and the press call on President Joe Biden to pursue military involvement in Ukraine, including by implementing a “no-fly zone,” a complicated tightrope act by U.S. intelligence is receiving relatively little public attention. Current… Read More ›
Peter Daszak Answers Critics and Defends Coronavirus Research
Since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Peter Daszak has been at the center of a heated, and at times vicious, debate over the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The parasitologist helms the New York-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, a wildlife conservation… Read More ›
“Jan 6th is gonna be crazy. … lol”: DHS Officials Expected Violence at the Capitol, Kept It to Themselves
In the days leading up to the January 6, 2021, siege of the U.S. Capitol, officials inside the Department of Homeland Security were feeling anxious. Within the department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, the sole component of the federal government… Read More ›
Echoes of FBI Entrapment Haunt Failed Plot to Kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
In October 2020, the FBI and the Justice Department announced the arrest of six Michigan militia members who called themselves the Wolverine Watchmen. The FBI claimed that federal agents had thwarted an elaborate plot hatched by the men to kidnap… Read More ›
Even After Acknowledging Abuses, the U.S. Continued to Employ Notorious Proxy Forces in Cameroon
Months after the head of U.S. Africa Command announced that funding for Cameroon’s armed forces would be slashed due to human rights concerns, the Pentagon continued employing members of an elite Cameroonian military unit long known for committing atrocities — including extrajudicial… Read More ›