A former intelligence analyst and Afghanistan veteran has been charged with leaking classified information to the media. Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested on Thursday federal charges. The reporter that Hale leaked this information to is not named in the indictment but the charging document identifies him as Jeremy Scahill of The […]
Former Intelligence Analyst Charged with Disclosing Classified Information…
Silencing the Whistle: The Intercept Shutters Snowden Archive, Citing Cost…
On March 13, a report in the Daily Beast revealed that the New York-based outlet The Intercept would be shutting down its archive of the trove of government documents entrusted to a handful of journalists, including Intercept co-founders Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, by whistleblower Edward Snowden. However, that account did not include the role […]
Julian Assange Strikes Back at CIA Director and Talks Trump, Russia, and Hillary Clinton (AUDIO)…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hitting back at Trump’s CIA director Mike Pompeo following a speech last week in which Pompeo accused WikiLeaks of being a “hostile nonstate intelligence agency” operating outside of the protections of the First Amendment. “We can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values […]
Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts…