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Omidyar’s Intercept Teams Up with War-Propaganda Firm Bellingcat…

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The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, recently hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York. The workshop, which cost $2,500 per person to attend and lasted five days, aimed to instruct participants in how to perform investigations using “open source” tools — with Bellingcat’s past, controversial investigations for […]

Feds Seek 4-Year Plus Sentence for FBI Agent in Leak Case…

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Federal prosecutors are seeking a sentence of more than four years in prison for a former FBI agent who admitted disclosing classified terrorist-profiling guidelines to the media, but the agent’s defense lawyers argue he should get no prison time at all. Ex-agent Terry Albury is set to be sentenced in Minneapolis later this month after […]

Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters…

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Wikileaks is possibly the most opaque transparency organization. The group, founded by Julian Assange, sometimes hides its true motives, and has not published any information about its own finances in years, despite amassing tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. Now, an activist who has developed an adversarial relationship with the group has published […]

By Suing WikiLeaks, DNC Could Endanger Principles of Press Freedom…

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In 1993, WILK radio host Frederick Vopper broadcast a conversation intercepted by an illegal wiretap and sent anonymously to the Pennsylvania radio station, in which two teachers union officials discussed violent negotiating tactics. The officials sued Vopper, arguing that he should be liable for the illegal wiretap that captured their comments. But the Supreme Court […]

Department of Justice Charges FBI Whistleblower Under Espionage Act…

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A former FBI agent has been charged with two counts related to the unauthorized disclosure of national security information, according to documents filed by the Department of Justice this week, marking the latest instance of the Trump administration’s stated intention to crack down on leaks to the press. The charges, filed by the DOJ’s National […]

Opinion: Fearless Adversarial Journalism Doesn’t Work When You Are Funded by a Billionaire…

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Disobedient Media previously opined on the dagger-in-the-back publication of a hit piece against Wikileaks’ Julian Assange just one day after a UK magistrate, with blatant conflict of interest in the matter, shot down his legal representatives’ attempt to finally free him from the confines of the Ecuadorian embassy. What that article did not address was […]

Et Tu, The Intercept? Smear of Assange Murderously Timed…

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The T-Room here: We read half-way through The Intercept piece on Assange and immediately saw it for what it was–a smear job. It’s shameful that a site who few would ever read, without the Snowden–Greenwald connection, would wield its hubris towards a guy who has otherwise been forced to hold himself captive due to European […]

By Ending Shutdown, Senate Democrats Gave Trump Budgetary Authority over the Intelligence Community…

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The Democratic Party-endorsed spending bill intended to end the three-day-long government “shutdown” also provides the Trump administration with budgetary authority over U.S. intelligence operations. Largely unnoticed until after the 81-18 vote in favor of ending the shutdown, the provision in question was apparently added into the budget bill at the request of the Office of […]

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