As part of the Biden administration’s crackdown on domestic extremism, the Pentagon plans to launch a pilot program for screening social media content for extremist material, according to internal Defense Department documents reviewed by The Intercept, as well as a… Read More ›
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After Slamming Trump, Lawmakers Silent on Biden Drone Export Policy
When the Trump administration announced last July it was loosening decades-old restrictions on military drone exports, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee came out swinging. Progressive Democrats pounced and introduced legislation to reverse the decision. The new… Read More ›
Border Police Wants a Bite of Burgeoning Anti-Drone Industry
In April, U.S. Army officers met with representatives from Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based subsidiary of Boeing, to test whether the company’s technology could intercept and bring down an enemy drone. Aurora was one of three companies that took part… Read More ›
Israel May Have Destroyed Iranian Centrifuges Simply by Cutting Power
The explosion and blackout at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran over the weekend raised the specter of past sabotage — including the Stuxnet cyberattack that took out some of Natanz’s centrifuges between 2007 and 2010 as well as an… Read More ›
The Journalist and the Whistleblower
The Federal Bureau of Investigations headquarters is seen in Washington, D.C., on October 24, 2019. Photo: Elise Swain/The Intercept When I became a reporter, I was surprised to discover a trait that I had never before recognized in myself. People… Read More ›
White Supremacists, Conspiracy Theorists Are Targeting Cell Towers, Police Warn
As the Biden administration turns its attention to an infrastructure system beset with problems, a strange new issue has emerged: conspiracy theorists. That’s according to a detailed intelligence report, produced by the New York Police Department and obtained by The Intercept,… Read More ›
CIA Headquarters Got Vaccinated in Early January, Rankling Intelligence Officers Abroad
In early January, as much of the country awaited the Covid-19 vaccine, personnel at the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, had already begun receiving their shots, according to three former CIA officials with knowledge of the matter. Yet the agency… Read More ›
Biden's War Policy Offers Chance for Change — or More of the Same
Less than two months after taking office, most of President Joe Biden’s national security policy is under review. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is reexamining worldwide troop deployments, and the administration is taking a hard look at global counterterrorism operations. Biden’s… Read More ›
Erik Prince and the Failed Plot to Arm a CIA Asset-Turned-Warlord in Libya
In 2019, Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater and a prominent Donald Trump supporter, aided a plot to move U.S.-made attack helicopters, weapons, and other military equipment from Jordan to a renegade commander fighting for control of… Read More ›
Democrats Pressure Biden on U.S. Backing for Saudi War in Yemen
Weeks after President Joe Biden announced he would end U.S. support for “offensive” military operations in Yemen by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a group of progressive lawmakers are asking his administration to clarify what forms of U.S…. Read More ›