The Secret Government Rulebook for Labeling You a Terrorist
The watchlist system now requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate you a terrorist. <!--more-->
The watchlist system now requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate you a terrorist. <!--more-->
Snowden Archive
Drone Wars
A new report on the U.S. drone missile strike that killed 12 members of a Yemeni wedding convoy has renewed calls for the Obama administration to make public its own investigations into the incident -- and explain how such strikes are consistent with international laws of war. <!--more-->
A British lower court has ruled that London police acted lawfully in employing an anti-terror statute to detain and interrogate David Miranda for nearly nine hours at Heathrow Airport last summer, even while recognizing that the detention was "an indirect interference with press freedom." <!--more-->
Intercept editors Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras have won the George Polk Award, one of the highest prizes in journalism, for revealing expansive National Security Agency surveillance programs detailed in documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. They shared the national security reporting award with the Guardian's Ewen MacAskill and the Washington Post's Barton Gellman. <!--more-->