Articles by Cora Currier

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U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
Murtaza Hussain and Cora Currier – The Intercept, 17 Oct 2016

11 Oct 2016 – A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of “homegrown” terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to “radicalization,” concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts. Government officials rarely acknowledge the role that political grievances play in driving attacks.

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Report Finds Loose Laws on Data and Surveillance in Latin America
Cora Currier – The Intercept, 17 Oct 2016

10 Oct 2016 – Privacy researchers warn of the potential for abuse of spyware and anti-encryption laws in countries across the region.

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(Português) Relatório expõe leis ultrapassadas sobre dados e vigilância na América Latina
Cora Currier – The Intercept Brasil, 17 Oct 2016

10 out 2016 – As leis de muitos países latino americanos não acompanharam a expansão das tecnologias de vigilância, criando a possibilidade de sérios abusos, de acordo com um novo relatório de uma entidade fiscalizadora de assuntos de privacidade.

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A Walking Tour of New York’s Massive Surveillance Network
Cora Currier – The Intercept, 26 Sep 2016

A new “field guide” by Ingrid Burrington makes visible the infrastructure of surveillance in New York, and explains the money and politics behind it.

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The Drone Papers – Firing Blind (6 of 8)
Cora Currier and Peter Maass – The Intercept, 26 Oct 2015

Flawed Intelligence and the Limits of Drone Technology

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The Drone Papers – The Kill Chain (3 of 8)
Cora Currier – The Intercept, 19 Oct 2015

The Lethal Bureaucracy behind Obama’s Drone War

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CIA Director Describes How the U.S. Outsources Terror Interrogations
Cora Currier – The Intercept, 16 Mar 2015

Brennan’s remarks confirm what journalists have long reported: that the Obama administration sometimes helps other countries do the dirty work of snatching and interrogating terror suspects-keeping the U.S. at arm’s length from operations that are ethically and legally dubious.

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European Lawmakers Demand Answers on Phone Key Theft
Ryan Devereaux and Cora Currier – The Intercept, 23 Feb 2015

20 Feb 2015 – European officials are demanding answers and investigations into a joint U.S. and U.K. hack of the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile SIM cards, following a report published by The Intercept [on TMS] Thursday [19 Feb 2015].

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Is Your Child a Terrorist? U.S. Government Questionnaire Rates Families at Risk for Extremism
Murtaza Hussain, Cora Currier, and Jana Winter – The Intercept, 16 Feb 2015

Are you, your family or your community at risk of turning to violent extremism? That’s the premise behind a rating system devised by the National Counterterrorism Center, according to a document marked For Official Use Only and obtained by The Intercept.

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How Guantánamo Diary Escaped the Black Hole and Got Past the Censors (Mostly)
Cora Currier – The Intercept, 2 Feb 2015

31 Jan 2015 – The first word of Guantánamo Diary is a black bar. The book, in which Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi tells of his odyssey through overseas prisons and his torture and abuse by the US and its counterterrorism allies, is pockmarked with redactions left by military censors.

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The Mysterious Case of Prisoner 212
Cora Currier and Margot Williams – The Intercept, 29 Dec 2014

That al-Libi was held by the CIA is long established. After all, al-Libi’s name is notorious as the source of bad information used by the Bush administration to tie Saddam Hussein to Al-Qaeda to support the US invasion of Iraq — information he provided while being tortured in Egyptian custody, and later recanted.

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Psychologists Are Rethinking Their Cozy Relationship with Bush Torture Program
Cora Currier – The Intercept, 18 Nov 2014

The American Psychological Association is launching an independent investigation over how it may have sanctioned the brutal interrogation methods used against terror suspects by the Bush administration.

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Secret Manuals Show the Spyware Sold to Despots and Cops Worldwide
Cora Currier and Morgan Marquis-Boire – The Intercept, 3 Nov 2014

There are already methods to bypass encryption, thanks to off-the-shelf digital implants readily available to the smallest national agencies and the largest city police forces — easy-to-use software that takes over and monitors digital devices in real time, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.

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Blowing the Whistle on CIA Torture from Beyond the Grave
Cora Currier – The Intercept, 20 Oct 2014

The APA said that any suggestion “that APA had a financial motivation” to support U.S. detainee policies “is absurd.” The CIA declined to comment on Gerwehr or the allegations raised from his emails. “I believe that Gerwehr encountered something deeply disturbing,” said Raymond.

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Leaked Files: German Spy Company Helped Bahrain Hack Arab Spring Protesters
Cora Currier and Morgan Marquis-Boire – The Intercept, 11 Aug 2014

7 Aug 2014 – A notorious surveillance technology company that helps governments around the world spy on their citizens sold software to Bahrain during that country’s brutal response to the Arab Spring movement, according to leaked internal documents posted this week on the internet.

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Another Pulitzer for Reporting Classified Info
Cora Currier – Columbia Journalism Review, 5 May 2014

16 Apr 2014 – The Pulitzer committee’s decision to give its public service award this year to the Washington Post and the Guardian for their stories on government surveillance has elicited a few predictable reactions from those who believe that the source of the NSA material—Edward Snowden—is not a whistleblower, but a criminal.

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Everything We Know So Far About Drone Strikes
Cora Currier – ProPublica-Journalism in the Public Interest, 25 Feb 2013

You might have heard about the “kill list.” You’ve certainly heard about drones. But the details of the U.S. campaign against militants in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia — a centerpiece of the Obama administration’s national security approach – remain shrouded in secrecy. Here’s our guide to what we know—and what we don’t know.

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(Português) Drones: Dossiê Sobre Uma Guerra Suja
Cora Currier, ProPublica – Outras Palavras, 25 Feb 2013

É possível que você já tenha ouvido falar das “kill lists” – listas de nomes de pessoas a serem assassinadas. Certamente você já ouviu falar dos drones. Mas os detalhes da campanha que os EUA movem contra militantes no Paquistão, no Iêmen e na Somália – peça chave da abordagem que o governo Obama optou por dar à segurança nacional – permanecem envoltos em segredo. Aqui oferecemos um guia do que já sabemos e do que ainda não sabemos.

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DEMOCRACY, ON MIC AND ON CAMERA
Cora Currier – The Nation, 24 Apr 2009

In the world of mainstream hip-hop in the United States, political engagement usually takes the form of celebrity endorsements or fundraising concerts for noncontroversial causes. The mélange of artists who performed at Barack Obama’s inauguration was more a sign of the new president’s hipness than one of real political engagement on the part of rappers. […]

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