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April 26, 2023
What Were the Twitter Files?
While it’s clear Matt Taibbi made some serious factual errors, criticisms of the disclosures have ignored the role of the FBI and other parts of the national security state.
Branko Marcetic
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April 25, 2023
The DOJ Is Using “Foreign Agents” Accusations to Repress Black Liberation Organizers
We must demand that the FBI cease invoking the Foreign Agents Registration Act to spy on and criminalize Black social justice leaders.
Collin P. Poirot and Azadeh Shahshahani
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March 15, 2023
Havana Syndrome and the Psychosomatic Empire
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Branko Marcetic comments on the age of imaginary super-weapons and wild threat inflation.
Jeet Heer
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March 7, 2023
The Cult of J. Edgar Hoover
A zealot through and through, he ran the FBI like a religious sect.
Adam Hochschild
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January 25, 2023
The Original Sin Is We Classify Too Much
How overclassification fails us and harms national security.
Elizabeth Goitein
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January 17, 2023
Why Biden and Trump Are Both Trapped in Secret-Document Scandals
The real problem is the national security state’s love of classification.
Jeet Heer
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December 30, 2022
How the GOP Learned to Hate the FBI
And why it matters that Democrats and Republicans have switched positions on the national security state.
Jeet Heer
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December 9, 2022
If Merrick Garland Had the Courage of His Convictions…
Donald Trump would already be on his way to prison.
Ben Gerson
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October 3, 2022
Off the Record: Barack Obama on Donald Trump
A newly declassified press conference shows the former president’s prescience—and his blind spots.
Jeet Heer
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September 26, 2022
Do Presidents Have a Right to Secrecy?
Trump’s refusal to share information has been part and parcel of the Washington scene for far longer than the current moment.
Karen J. Greenberg