Archives for October 2014

Are FBI and NCTC Trying to Pressure Prosecutors to Charge the Second Intercept Source?

Are investigators trying to pressure prosecutors into charging an alleged source for The Intercept?

New Report: US Cannot Comply with International Torture Treaty without Transparency

A report from Open the Government argues that we cannot comply with our obligations under the Convention Against Torture unless we stop hiding all our torture.

Condi Rice Asked Jill Abramson to Stop Jim Risen from Reporting on Merlin

Last week, the Nation published ExposeFacts’ Norman Solomon and Marcy Wheeler story on the Government’s War on James Risen. The story described how people complicit in the programs Risen described had tried to convince the New York Times not to publish Risen’s stories. Shortly before the 2004 presidential election, Risen and his colleague Eric Lichtblau […]

James Bamford Story Reveals Similarity between Reagan-Era Efforts to Thwart NSA Reporting and Today’s

Some of the tactics James Bamford had to use to get his book, the Puzzle Palace, published are still being used today to expose the NSA’s activities.