Newsletter Behind The Guantanamo Theater Technocracy can make some good points, but it’s no match for War on Terror politics. The Biden administration sat this one out. Scenes from a Senate judiciary committee hearing
Newsletter The Peril and the Promise of Biden’s Drone Review The drone-strike reduction seems to be real. But so is the pull of the status quo, reflected in the Pentagon’s force-posture overview.
Newsletter Guantanamo Bay, From Cage To Threshold Dick Durbin says Guantanamo “does not reflect who we are or should be.” He’s right about that second part.
Newsletter A Song All By Himself Farewell to Stephen Sondheim, the best to ever do it. But from your bookshelf to your music stand to your Netflix queue, he can never truly be gone.
Newsletter Who Must Be A Terrorist, And Who Can Never Be If Ilhan Omar and Lauren Boebert are in an elevator together, the dangerous one isn’t Omar. Weird how the War on Terror instructs otherwise, huh
Newsletter Major General Despair The wages of exalting generals and admirals come when we see them express open contempt for the people who exalted them.
Newsletter Never Mind Yemen, Biden OKs $1 Billion in Weapons Sales To Saudis Once upon a time, an administration told a story about how it was going to end a war. Then it erased the distinction between peace and a Saudi victory.
Newsletter Science Fiction Land What happens when the theme-park guys come for Jack Kirby and Chloe Zhao
Newsletter Another War on Terror Ghoul Enters The Biden Administration Ken Wainstein will run the intelligence shop at the Department of Homeland Security. They tried to make me to go to his rehab and I said no, no, no
Newsletter Nihilistic Feelings Are Moving If I try reading The Apocalypse and The End of History by Suzanne Schneider, I see right through them.
Newsletter ‘I Was Raped By The CIA Medics,’ Says Black-Site Survivor In his first-ever statement, Majid Khan detailed the vengeful reality of the post-9/11 CIA: “The more I cooperated and told them, the more I was tortured.”
Newsletter The War Crimes Trials That Never Happened In 1971, one of the greatest journalists of the Vietnam War asked a question that echoes decades later. Join me... and ponder the question... What If?
Newsletter On U.S. Intelligence’s Wiki, Anxiety About Legal Challenges To Drone Strikes Who wants to read a never-before-published document leaked by Edward Snowden? It’s weird
Newsletter "On U.S. Intelligence’s Wiki, Anxiety About Legal Challenges To Drone Strikes," Oct. 22, 2021 Intellipedia entry: “Targeted Killing-Policy, Legal and Ethical Controversy” (PDF) Appended to this article.
Newsletter The Only Man Who Could Have Stopped The Iraq War Is Dead Colin Powell chose to sell a war he knew was wrong. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were unavailable for comment on his death
Newsletter Terrorism, Structural Racism, And Facebook The ‘radical indifference’ of the surveillance-capitalist giant reflects and entrenches a racialized understanding of political violence.
Newsletter Fear Itself In the post-9/11 era, police departments blur the lines that separate them from spy services. More and more Americans get the treatment the CIA gives our non-American comrades
Newsletter Yes, Why Not Let Abu Zubaydah Testify? On one hand: The CIA might not be able to get foreign spy services to torture people. On the other: A tortured man could pursue justice. 🤔
Newsletter Watching The FBI Lose, Destroy the Documents Justifying Surveillance What started as an audit of the Carter Page espionage investigation has expanded and “identified systemic noncompliance” with crucial surveillance constraints.
Newsletter Disparate Fronts: Seth Meyers, Press Freedom, and Our Abortion Fundraiser Just some random things thrown together as me and Sam report out larger stories. Also, an abortion-access fund update.
Newsletter ‘A More Sustainable And Agile Counterterrorism Approach’ An overlooked speech by Joe Biden’s White House homeland-security adviser points to a return to the Sustainable War on Terror. It looks like we’re at the end of the war’s end.
