On what would be the last day of his life, Zemari Ahmadi, an employee of a U.S.-based NGO, was being watched by a remote crew piloting a Predator drone above the skies of Kabul, Afghanistan. As Ahmadi went about his… Read More ›
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Senate Intelligence Committee Endorsed CIA Term Central to Julian Assange Kidnapping Plot
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 2017 gave its stamp of approval to a legal maneuver that we now know the CIA was using to hunt WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. According to an explosive investigation published Sunday by Yahoo News,… Read More ›
Termination of Scientists Sparks Concerns About Possible China-Related Probe
Two Chinese American scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston were removed from their jobs on the same day last month, raising concerns among colleagues that they may have been targeted in fallout from the Justice Department’s controversial China Initiative. The… Read More ›
Intelligence Contract Funneled to Pro-War Think Tank Establishment
In 2018, when the government awarded a massive $769 million contract to Alion Science and Technology, a defense contractor, the company promised that the money would go to “cutting edge” intelligence and technological solutions “that directly support the warfighter.” The… Read More ›
An FBI Informant's Unlikely Role in Upcoming Supreme Court Case on Surveillance of Muslims
Craig Monteilh was no stranger to federal agents. A hulking man who’d spent much of his teenage and adult years as an amateur bodybuilder, Monteilh had once made a living ripping off drug dealers. One time, in 1986, the deal… Read More ›
9/11 and the Saudi Connection
None of the issues still lingering 20 years after the 9/11 attacks have been as persistent — or as emotionally wrenching for the families of the victims — as the question of whether Saudi Arabia provided funding and other assistance… Read More ›
How Post-9/11 Visions of an Imperiled Homeland Reshaped America
Nine days after the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush stood before Congress and delivered one of the most consequential speeches in modern history, outlining for the country and the world the shape his administration’s new “war on terror”… Read More ›
The Forever Wars Are Coming Home
I was driving home from a militia muster in the Virginia mountains last summer — after another day immersed in preelection talk of civil war — when I found myself reflecting, as I often have in the year since, on… Read More ›
General Failure: How the U.S. Military Lied About the 9/11 Wars
Army Gen. David Petraeus is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2007. Photo: Lawrence Jackson/AP Pretty much every day since 9/11, the U.S. military has disciplined soldiers who failed to do their jobs properly. They have been punished… Read More ›
FBI Spy Planes Monitored a Single Suspect for Nearly 429 Hours
The FBI’s secretive spy plane program targeted a man in Florida last year with nearly constant surveillance, logging more than 400 hours in the air with a fleet of Cessna aircraft registered to what appear to be front companies. This… Read More ›