Articles by Jason Leopold
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Pentagon Report: Scope of Intelligence Compromised by Snowden ‘Staggering’
Jason Leopold – The Guardian,
26 May 2014
The Guardian has obtained a copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s classified damage assessment in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the Defense Department earlier this year.
→ read full articleExclusive: Emails Reveal Close Google Relationship with NSA
Jason Leopold – Al Jazeera America,
12 May 2014
6 May 2014 – Email exchanges between NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Google executives Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt suggest a far cozier working relationship than was implied by Silicon Valley brass after last year’s revelations about NSA spying.
→ read full articleRevealed: NSA Pushed 9/11 as Key ‘Sound Bite’ to Justify Surveillance
Jason Leopold – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
The document, obtained by Al Jazeera through a Freedom of Information Act request, contains talking points and suggested statements for NSA officials responding to the fallout from media revelations that originated with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleEXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to “Pharmacologic Waterboarding”
Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye - Truthout | Investigative Report,
6 Dec 2010
The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health physician called “pharmacologic waterboarding.” The government has exposed detainees “to unacceptably high risks of potentially severe neuropsychiatric side effects, including seizures, intense vertigo, hallucinations, paranoid delusions, aggression, panic, anxiety, severe insomnia, and thoughts of suicide,” said Nevin, who was not speaking in an official capacity, but offering opinions as a board-certified, preventive medicine physician. “These side effects could be as severe as those intended through the application of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.'”
→ read full articleObama Targets Iran for Human Rights Violations and Shields Bush Officials for Engaging in Same Abuses
Jason Leopold - Truthout,
4 Oct 2010
What a stunning display of hypocrisy. On Wednesday [29 Sep 2010], President Barack Obama announced that he signed an executive order that, for the first time, imposes sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses and targets eight Iranian government and military officials who are said to be complicit in the torture, abuse and murder of citizens who protested the results of Iran’s disputed 2009 presidential election.
→ read full articleHuman Experimentation at the Heart of Bush Administration’s Torture Program
Jason Leopold - Truthout,
14 Jun 2010
“High-value detainees captured during the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’ who were subjected to brutal torture techniques were part of a Nazi Germany-type program involving illegal human experimentation, the purpose of which was to collect research ‘data,’ according to a disturbing new report that calls on President Barack Obama, Congress, and other government agencies to immediately launch inquiries and Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the allegations.”
→ read full articleIsraeli Naval Forces Seize Gaza Bound Aid Ship, “Rachel Corrie”
Jason Leopold - Truthout,
7 Jun 2010
Israeli naval forces seized control of another humanitarian aid ship headed for Gaza early Saturday [5 May 2010]. The Irish vessel, the Rachel Corrie, named after the US citizen who was intentionally crushed by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, refused demands by Israeli defense forces to dock in Ashdod. It was intercepted in international waters.
→ read full articleOBAMA’S BUDGET CALLS FOR BILLIONS IN NEW SPENDING FOR DRONES
Jason Leopold - Truthout,
3 Feb 2010
This is how major US defense contractors reacted to the unveiling of President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2011 spending plan for the Pentagon, part of the president’s overall $3.8 trillion budget proposal. Shares of General Dynamics, a maker of military aircraft, submarines and munitions, rose 3.9 percent and closed at $69.43 in trading on the […]
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