Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9/11 featured the "direct involvement" of government agents or informants, a new report says.
Some of the controversial "sting" operations "were proposed...
On May 20, 2009, four men from the impoverished and largely African-American city of Newburgh, NY, were apprehended for an alleged terror plot. They had no history of violence or terrorist ties, but had...
Originally published at AP by Jack Gillum and Eileen Sullivan on 6/12/2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has been quietly advising local police not to disclose details about surveillance technology they are using to...
Originally published at The Guardian by Dan Roberts on 6/20/14
Reauthorisation is fifth since the Guardian revealed existence of Section 215 telephony metadata program in June last year.
The Fisa court has granted a 90-day extension...
Originally published by Seymour Hersh at the London Review of Books April, 2014
In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack...
Originally published at FastCompany by Stan Alcorn on 11/25/13
Evan Booth hacks together working weapons--like a shotgun, a grenade, and a crossbow--with purchases anyone can make after they go through security, to show that the...
