Articles by Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept
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The Secret Government Rulebook for Labeling You a Terrorist (Reprint)
Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
9 Sep 2019
23 Jul 2014 – The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.
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Border Patrol Agents Tried to Delete Racist and Obscene Facebook Posts. We Archived Them.
Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
8 Jul 2019
5 Jul 2019 – Border Patrol agents quickly began deleting racist and violent posts after the existence of their private Facebook group was reported. Here are some of those posts.
→ read full articleObama Administration Finally Releases Its Dubious Drone Death Toll
Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
4 Jul 2016
In a long-anticipated gesture at transparency, the Obama administration on Friday [1 Jul] released an internal assessment of the number of civilians killed by drone strikes in nations where the U.S. is not officially at war.
→ read full articleThe Drone Papers – Manhunting in the Hindu Kush (5 of 8)
Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
26 Oct 2015
Civilian Casualties and Strategic Failures in America’s Longest War
→ read full articleManaging a Nightmare: How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb
Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
29 Sep 2014
Eighteen years after it was published, “Dark Alliance,” the San Jose Mercury News’s bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s Contra rebels, and African American neighborhoods in California, remains one of the most explosive and controversial exposés in American journalism.
→ read full articleBarack Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers
Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
11 Aug 2014
5 Aug 2014 – Nearly half of the 680,000 people on the U.S. government’s widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government documents obtained by The Intercept.
→ read full articleThe Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
28 Jul 2014
23 Jul 2014 – The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.
→ read full articleUK Court: David Miranda Detention Legal under Terrorism Law
Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
24 Feb 2014
Miranda, a Brazilian national, was carrying secret documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden from one reporter to another — from Laura Poitras in Berlin to Miranda’s partner, Glenn Greenwald, in Rio de Janeiro.
→ read full articleIntercept Editors Win Polk Award for Coverage of Snowden Documents
Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
24 Feb 2014
Intercept editors Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras have won the George Polk Award, one of the highest prizes in journalism, for revealing expansive NSA surveillance programs detailed in documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
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