Articles by The Intercept
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Compare the NSA’s Facebook Malware Denial to Its Own Secret Documents
Ryan Gallagher – The Intercept,
17 Mar 2014
On Wednesday [12 Mar 2014], Glenn Greenwald and I revealed new details that the NSA secretly pretended to be a fake Facebook server in order to covertly infect targets with malware “implants.” This revelation apparently infuriated Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg so much that he got on the phone to President Barack Obama to complain about it.
→ read full articleRT Host Abby Martin Condemns Russian Incursion into Crimea – On RT
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
10 Mar 2014
In response to my question about whether any U.S. television hosts issued denunciations of the attack on Iraq similar to what Martin just did on RT, Washington lawyer Bradley Moss replied: “Phil Donahue (MSNBC) and Peter Arnett (NBC).” This perfectly proves the point I made, since both Donahue and Arnett were fired because of their opposition to the U.S. war.
→ read full articleThe Washington Post Uses Biased Experts to Promote Propaganda on Venezuela
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
10 Mar 2014
That the sources of this supposedly expert analysis are funded by corporations and governments openly hostile to the Venezuelan government, and which have even attempted its overthrow in the past, would appear to be a fairly glaring omission.
→ read full articleHow Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
3 Mar 2014
24 Feb 2014 – One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.
→ read full articleOn the Meaning of Journalistic Independence
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
3 Mar 2014
1 Mar 2014 – This morning, I see that some people are quite abuzz about a new Pando article ”revealing” that the foundation of Pierre Omidyar, the publisher of First Look Media which publishes The Intercept, gave several hundred thousand dollars to a Ukraininan “pro-democracy” organization opposed to the ruling regime.
→ read full articleThe Moazzam Begg Arrest: Part of the Effort to Criminalize Muslim Political Dissent
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
3 Mar 2014
Moazzam Begg, a native-born British citizen of Pakistani descent, spent three years incarcerated in Guantánamo without ever being charged with any crime. On Tuesday [25 Feb 2014], Begg was arrested in an “anti-terror raid” on his home outside Birmingham, charged with “terrorism” offenses for having allegedly traveled to Syria to assist Syrian rebels.
→ read full articleUK Court: David Miranda Detention Legal under Terrorism Law
Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
24 Feb 2014
Miranda, a Brazilian national, was carrying secret documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden from one reporter to another — from Laura Poitras in Berlin to Miranda’s partner, Glenn Greenwald, in Rio de Janeiro.
→ read full articleOn the UK’s Equating of Journalism with Terrorism
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
24 Feb 2014
The UK Government expressly argued that the release of the Snowden documents (which the free world calls “award-winning journalism“) is actually tantamount to “terrorism”, the same theory now being used by the Egyptian military regime to prosecute Al Jazeera journalists as terrorists. Congratulations to the UK government on the illustrious company it is once again keeping.
→ read full articleIntercept Editors Win Polk Award for Coverage of Snowden Documents
Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
24 Feb 2014
Intercept editors Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras have won the George Polk Award, one of the highest prizes in journalism, for revealing expansive NSA surveillance programs detailed in documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleThe NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
17 Feb 2014
The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people. Obama once told his aides that it “turns out I’m really good at killing people; didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
→ read full articleClapper Reads from the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-Monger over Transparency
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
17 Feb 2014
Maybe it’s time for journalists to cease being the leading advocates for state secrecy and instead take seriously their claimed role as watchdogs. At the very least, demand evidence before these sorts of highly predictable, cliched attacks are heralded as something to be taken seriously. As it is, they’re just cartoons: ones that are played over and over and over.
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