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Netanyahu’s ‘Telegenically Dead’ Comment Is Grotesque but Not Original
GAZA, PALESTINE - 2014/07/20: Palestinian medics carry the body of a child killed in Shijaiyah east of Gaza City, after Israel expanded its ground offensive on the Gaza Strip (Photo by Ibrahim...
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The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence”...
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The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police
Barack Obama and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in 2010. Photo credit: Ron Edmonds/APThe National Security Agency last year significantly expanded its cooperative relationship with the Saudi Ministry of...
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Top Journalists and Lawyers: NSA Surveillance Threatens Press Freedom and...
Photo Credit: Human Rights WatchTo do their jobs properly, journalists and lawyers sometimes need to be able to keep information private from the government.And because what journalists and lawyers do...
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Terrorism in the Israeli Attack on Gaza
Palestinian relatives mourn for victims of the Duheir family, near the rubble of their home, after it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Rafah on July 29, 2014, in the southern of Gaza strip....
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It’s About the Lying
John Brennan at the Council on Foreign Relations on March 11, 2014. Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesI don’t want to understate how seriously wrong it is that the CIA searched Senate...
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Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: the U.S. is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference on March 20, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. Photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Getty ImagesThe U.S....
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Barack Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers
Nearly half of the people on the U.S. government’s widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government documents obtained by...
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Leaked Files: German Spy Company Helped Bahrain Hack Arab Spring Protesters
Photo credit: APA notorious surveillance technology company that helps governments around the world spy on their citizens sold software to Bahrain during that country’s brutal response to the Arab...
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U.S. “Humanitarian” Bombing of Iraq: A Redundant Presidential Ritual
Associated Press, December 1, 1990:New York Times, January 17, 1991:CNN, December 16, 1998:New York Times, December 17, 1998:CNN, March 1, 2003:Time, John Dickerson, January 28, 2003:CBS, March 22,...
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Quiz: Who Said This? Hillary Clinton or Benjamin Netanyahu?
Photo credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty ImagesLeave your scores in the comment section:1) “Israel has a right to defend itself. The steps Hamas has taken to embed rockets and command-and-control...
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NPR Is Laundering CIA Talking Points to Make You Scared of NSA Reporting
Photo credit: Charles Dharapak/APOn August 1, NPR’s Morning Edition broadcast a story by NPR national security reporter Dina Temple-Raston touting explosive claims from what she called “a tech firm...
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The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the...
Photo credit: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe intensive militarization of America’s police forces is a serious menace about which a small number of people have been loudly warning for years, with little...
View ArticleWelcoming Ryan Tate, Margot Williams, and Cora Currier to The Intercept
When The Intercept launched in February, we had two goals: in the short term, to continue reporting on the NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden, and in the long term, to produce fearless,...
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Five Muslim-Americans Sue Feds Over Watchlisting
Relying in part on recent Intercept reporting on the vast breadth of the government’s watchlisting system, several Muslim Americans filed a complaint in a Michigan federal court today, arguing that...
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