We Spend $68 Billion a Year on Intelligence Agencies—and They Don’t Really Work We Spend $68 Billion a Year on Intelligence Agencies—and They Don’t Really Work
US intelligence has been blindside by the rise and spread of ISIS and the collapse of the Iraqi army.
Sep 30, 2014 / Tom Engelhardt
‘We Tortured Some Folks’ ‘We Tortured Some Folks’
And the only government official who went to jail for it was the whistleblower who exposed it.
Aug 12, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow
Senators to Obama: Stop Censoring the Torture Report Senators to Obama: Stop Censoring the Torture Report
Lawmakers say the CIA redacted “key facts” from a long-awaited investigation into the agency’s cruel interrogation tactics.
Aug 6, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Why Does the United States Have 17 Different Intelligence Agencies? Why Does the United States Have 17 Different Intelligence Agencies?
We have built over thirty building complexes for top-secret intelligence work since 2001—and our security state just keeps growing.
Aug 4, 2014 / Tom Engelhardt
Spied On for Being Muslim Spied On for Being Muslim
A new investigation by The Intercept reveals how racist anti-Muslim neocons are driving the nation’s law enforcement agenda.
Jul 10, 2014 / Moustafa Bayoumi
Does America Still Torture? Does America Still Torture?
President Barack Obama made a big deal of turning the page on Bush-era “interrogration techniques,” but how much has really changed?
Jul 10, 2014 / Rebecca Gordon
Four Ways the Fourth Amendment No Longer Applies to Our Lives Four Ways the Fourth Amendment No Longer Applies to Our Lives
Since 9/11, the government has ceaselessly violated our constitutional rights—none more so than the right to privacy.
Jun 26, 2014 / Peter Van Buren
How We Learned That the Government Was Watching Us How We Learned That the Government Was Watching Us
Glenn Greenwald’s No Place to Hide chronicles the publication of secret NSA files that reshaped global conversations about government surveillance.
Jun 3, 2014 / Betty Medsger
How We Lost the Internet to Big Brother How We Lost the Internet to Big Brother
In case you hadn’t noticed, the nets of corporate and government phishing are in the water, already being drawn up around you.
May 29, 2014 / Tom Engelhardt
I Almost Blew Off Edward Snowden—and the Largest National Security Leak in a Generation I Almost Blew Off Edward Snowden—and the Largest National Security Leak in a Generation
The NSA leaker indisputably proved all that the US government had done to destroy the privacy of Americans and people around the world.
May 13, 2014 / Glenn Greenwald