The House Democrats’ “Rebuke” of Rep. Ilhan Omar is a Fraud For Many Reasons, Including its Wild Distortion of Her Comments, he writes at the Intercept.
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The Great Jordan Smith
She used to be an investigative reporter for the Austin Chronicle, but now she reports on the wrongly convicted for the Intercept. Here, she and also-great reporter Liliana Segura launch a new podcast called Murderville, GA about a man wrongly convicted of being a...
8/03/18 Iona Craig on US-Saudi Air War in Yemen
Iona Craig discusses her recent report for the Intercept on a Saudi airstrike in Yemen and civilian casualties in the ongoing 3 1/2 year U.S.-Saudi-UAE war there. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Zen Cash; The War State, by Mike...
The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll
“I think that when Americans talk about the Vietnam War … we tend to talk only about ourselves. But if we really want to understand it … or try to answer the fundamental question, ‘What happened?’ You’ve got to triangulate,” says filmmaker Ken Burns of his celebrated...
New Snowden NSA Documents Released
From The Intercept: SIDtoday is the internal newsletter for the NSA’s most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate. After editorial review, The Intercept is releasing nine years’ worth of newsletters in batches, starting with 2003. The agency’s spies...
6/12/17 Peter van Buren on Reality Winner’s dubious arrest
Peter van Buren is on the show to talk about the arrest of the latest leaker or whistleblower to be arrested, Reality Winner. The dubious circumstances and questions surrounding the arrest and leaking of the document are discussed at length. van Buren also discusses...
5/3/17 Trevor Aaronson on terrorism-related trials, FBI entrapment, and criminal justice since 9/11
Trevor Aaronson, a contributing writer at The Intercept, discusses his 4-part series on the nearly 800 people prosecuted by the US government on terrorism-related charges since 9/11, supposedly for serious crimes endangering the lives of Americans. However, most of...
Formerly Imprisoned Journalist Barrett Brown Taken Back into Custody Before PBS Interview
Award-winning journalist Barrett Brown was re-arrested and taken into custody Thursday, the day before he was scheduled to be interviewed for a PBS documentary. Brown quickly became a symbol of the attack on press freedom after he was arrested in 2012 for reporting he...
3/26/17 Iona Craig on the truth about Trump’s ‘Highly Successful’ January SEAL raid in Yemen
Iona Craig, a British-Irish independent journalist, discusses the result of President Trump's first authorized counterterrorism operation - a SEAL raid on the Yemeni village of al Ghayil that left many civilians dead, including 10 children under 13 years old. The...
3/10/17 Zaid Jilani on Trump’s selection of Russia-hawk Richard Grennell for NATO ambassador
Zaid Jilani, a writer for The Intercept, discusses President Trump's apparent concessions to critics accusing him of being soft on Russia, including his selection of Richard Grennell (who is in favor of arming Ukraine and leaving direct military confrontation with...
2/22/17 Jon Schwarz on the connection between Americans’ fear of Muslims and ignorance of foreign policy
Jon Schwarz, a writer for The Intercept, discusses President Trump's executive order restricting immigration and why most Americans are understandably confused about why "Muslims hate us," since politicians and the media completely avoid making any link between...
2/1/17 Trevor Aaronson on The Intercept’s cache of secret FBI documents showing their vast powers and operating rules
Trevor Aaronson, a contributing writer at The Intercept and executive director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, discusses the classified FBI documents obtained by The Intercept showing that the FBI has expanded its role far beyond federal...
The FBI’s Secret Rules
President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers. A cache of documents offers a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11. Confidential Human Source Policy Guide Detailed rules for how the FBI handles...
Trump to Abolish Liar Clapper’s Old Director of National Intelligence Spot?
Jared, Interesting that Clapper quit when he did -- perhaps in a race to get out before being thrown out. But now the Intercept says Trump and his men are strongly considering abolishing the Director of National Intelligence job and department, and presumably then...
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