Dan Froomkin at PressWatch on journalism after January 6. The most important lesson of the Bush/Cheney years is that we should never assume government officials are telling us the truth, especially when it comes to matters involving war and national security. This is hardly an original lesson, and yet nonetheless it bears repeating. We should...
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A Short Course in the CIA’s Use of Torture
Accused Trump Contributor Worked for CIA For Many Years
CIA: O Maior Serviço de Espionagem do Mundo
FSB: O Maior Serviço de Segurança da Europa
MSE: Agência de Controle Social
‘The Dissident’ Unravels the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
Sidney Gottlieb: Mastermind of MKULTRA
Will U.S. See a Rural Insurgency?
The Five Eyes: The Global Spy Network You Never Heard Of
السعودية: رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة
भारत की अनुसंधान और विश्लेषण विंग (रॉ)
Deutschlands Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)
RIP Fred Hampton, Black Panther Assassinated by the FBI
‘Special Ops’: A RAW Story in a New Format
With NSA Training, UAE Spies Monitored Rights Activists and Michelle Obama
The Unsolved Mystery of the ‘Havana Syndrome’
China’s Top Spy is a Working Class Hero
Israel Threatens War to Block Biden’s Iran Diplomacy
MI6 and CIA Are Recruiting: Diversity and Disabilities Welcome
Tag: transparency
MuckRock on Transparency and the Transition Away from Trump
MuckRock is a collaborative news site that gives you the tools to hold the government accountable. From our friends at MuckRock. MuckRock wants to help you prepare for the coming administration and the deep reflection we’ll need to give to the current one. Let us know what questions you have. Check out our FOIA 101: Tips and...
Democratic Erosion in the Time of the Virus
From Just Security blog comes a warning. As people get sicker, democracy is getting weaker. Long before this pandemic erupted, a multi-year wave of governments cracking down on dissent, flouting international norms, and backtracking from cooperative alliances was disheartening. But now, at a moment when we need a coordinated and transparent global response, the full...
Rep. Adam Schiff: ‘It’s Not OK’
The chair of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence insists that Attorney General Bill Barr’s four-page summary of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s 300-page report does not settle the question of collusion.
South Korea’s Intelligence Service Has a Different Way of Doing Things
As I follow the Korea denuclearization story in the Korean media, I am finding the South Korea’s National Intelligence Service does something remarkably responsible and sane: they provide elected officials with timely intelligence, in a classified and unclassified setting, on a regular basis. When the New York Times published an overhyped story last month that North...
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