Congressional Democrats still refuse to end the post 9/11 legal regime of mass surveillance. That regime violates the constitution as Edward Snow notes, and it uncovered exactly one terrorist plot. The Democrats voted to keep it alive. Evan Greer, deputy director of digital rights group Fight for the Future, highlighted the provision on Twitter shortly...
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VIDEO: Chris Hedges and Stephen Kinzer Talk About the Legacy of MKULTRA
I thought Kinzer’s recent book, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, was terrific. Here he talks with Chris Hedges about the implication of what he found.
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We Still Don’t Know What Gina Haspel Really Knew About the CIA’s Torture Program
From VICE, which produced The Report, the new movie about the CIA’s torture program. “I was not even read into the interrogation program until it had been up and running for a year,” Haspell told the Committee. But Haspel’s claims raised more than a few eyebrows. For one, the CIA began its torture program in...
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Top Candidates for National Security Employees: Sanders and Buttigieg
This surprising finding comes from Foreign Policy’s C.K. Hickey. Foreign Policy examined how much money was donated to campaign committees from employees of the State Department, the military, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Justice Department, drawing on data from the Center for Responsive Politics. When combining contribution amounts together, Sanders is the biggest...
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Jason Chaffetz Predicts Durham Will Bring Charges
Former Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz has an explanation for why U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia affair “I don’t think it has anything to do with Horowitz delaying it,” said Chaffetz, who is a Fox News contributor, on the network this week. “I think it’s the fact that Durham actually...