CIA officer John Kiriakou, the first U.S. official to confirm that waterboarding was used to torture “war on terror” detainees, then faced a retaliatory prosecution and 30 months in prison. Recognizing his sacrifice, the literary group PEN gave Kiriakou its First Amendment Award, observed ex-CIA analyst…
Category: Secrecy
Lost on the ‘Dark Side’ in Syria
Can Obama Level with the People?
The Enduring Crime of ‘Agent Orange’
Carpetbagging ‘Crony Capitalism’ in Ukraine
Fresh Twists in the Lockerbie Case
Obama’s Double-Standard on Leaks
How Ukraine’s Finance Chief Got Rich
Exclusive: Ukraine’s Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko collected at least $1.77 million in bonuses from a U.S.-taxpayer-funded investment project that she ran even as it was losing money, a sign that her image as a paragon of public-interest “reform” may not…
How Technology Kills Democracy
In shutting down whistleblowing and investigative journalism on national security issues, the U.S. government can use its technology to determine who is speaking to whom and then use that metadata as evidence of leaks, a chilling new reality that endangers democracy,…