Reality Winner to Sign Plea Deal on Espionage Charge

Two things emerge clearly from the Winner and Albury espionage cases: 1) The Espionage Act was not created to, and should cease to, target journalists’ sources; 2) It would behoove The Intercept, and any such outlet, to work harder at protecting their sources.

Emma Fiala
بواسطة Emma Fiala
Accused NSA whistleblower, Reality Winner, leaves the U.S. District Courthouse in Augusta, Ga., following a bond hearing on June 8, 2017. (Photo: Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle/AP)

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA -- Reality Leigh Winner -- a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and linguist, and the first person to be charged with violating the Espionage Act on President Donald Trump’s watch -- has signed a plea agreement, according to the Courage Foundation. Her plea hearing has been scheduled for the morning of Tuesday, June

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With Progressives Like These, Who Needs Conservatives?

“The left has moved so far to the right that they have no memory or understanding that many of us on the left come out of a black revolutionary tradition. In their mind, they’re always the ones who should be running shit.”

Jon Jeter
بواسطة Jon Jeter
amy goodman Glenn Grewwnwald

NEW YORK -- In April, in the days after Western diplomats, aid workers, and reporters yet again accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of using chemical weapons against his own people, the renowned foreign correspondent Eva Bartlett found herself watching a video clip of Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman interviewing Glenn Greenwald, a co-founder of

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The Intercept and Reality Winner: When a Conflicted News Organization Should Pass the Baton

While The Intercept skillfully shows the audacious federal government’s attack on whistleblower Winner is a threat to our democracy, it woefully obfuscates its own multiple failings to protect sources.

Ian Berman
بواسطة Ian Berman
Accused NSA whistleblower, Reality Winner, leaves the U.S. District Courthouse in Augusta, Ga., following a bond hearing on June 8, 2017. (Photo: Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle/AP)

On Jeremy Scahill’s June 6, 2018 Intercepted podcast, The Persecution of Reality Winner, his guests, colleagues and he skillfully showed how Reality Winner’s prosecution is a shameless act of the federal government’s prosecutorial overreach to shut down whistleblowers. Briefly, Winner released one classified NSA document that showed the federal

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The “Cruise Missile Left” Now Cheerleading NATO’s Next Wars

Since 2011, certain influential members of the anti-war left have never strayed far from the official NATO line on countries such as Libya, Syria, and Russia.

Danny Haiphong
بواسطة Danny Haiphong
Media War Propganda

The US-led alliance of imperial nations has waged war on Syria for eight years with the hopes of overthrowing the independent Arab nationalist state led by President Bashar Al-Assad. Syria was believed to be another domino destined to fall in imperialism’s great power game to contain any international threat to its rule. Former NATO general Wesley

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Dear Salafist Wahhabi Apologists

Your head chopper heroes are apparently not what Syrians have in mind when they think of democratic revolution.

Paul Larudee
بواسطة Paul Larudee

Mehdi Hasan (MH) can hardly be blamed for the ignorance that he displays in his Intercept article, “Dear Bashar al-Assad Apologists: Your Hero Is a War Criminal Even If He Didn’t Gas Syrians.”  He has apparently never been to Syria, doesn’t often do research on Syria, and gets his information from proponents of a single point of view, representing

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Bad Track Record Gets Worse as New Whistleblower Outed by The Intercept

“I am appalled that yet another whistleblower in touch with The Intercept has been outed and arrested. … [P]erhaps The Intercept should walk away from national security reporting before its lack of journalistic professionalism ruins any more lives.” — CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
A screenshot of the feature photo from the Intercept story which eventually led to former Minneapolis-based FBI agent Terry James Albury's arrest.

MINNEAPOLIS – On Wednesday, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) reported that former Minneapolis-based FBI agent Terry James Albury had been charged with leaking classified government information to the online publication The Intercept. Albury’s legal defense, led by Jane Anne Murray and Joshua Dratel, identified him as a whistleblower, stating that his

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