What We Must Ask About Surveillance State Failures
Understanding the depths of the FBI’s intelligence powers, as well as how the FBI deploys them. This week's guest post from Chip Gibbons.
9/11
Right Before 9/11, FBI Counterterrorism Agents Were Busy Snooping In Anarchists' Trash
Twenty Years Of Barbarism At Guantánamo: Biden Could End It But Lacks The Political Will
JTF Guantanamo photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth from 2010
The first “high-value detainee” at Guantánamo military prison was approved for
transfer a day before the detention camp marked the 20th anniversary of
confining prisoners in the “war on terrorism.”
According to lawyers from Center
The PATRIOT Act And The Whistleblowers Who Challenged Mass Surveillance After 9/11
Mark Klein, former AT&T technician who blew the whistle on NSA warrantless
wiretapping (Photo: insunlight
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/insunlight/4349077860/sizes/z/])
[Editor's Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American
security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter continues a
retrospective
Twenty Years In A Security State: CIA's Global Rendition Network, Wrongful Detentions (Exclusive For Subscribers)
Twenty Years In A Security State: The CIA's Torture Business After 9/11
(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: public domain / Wikimedia)[Editor's Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American
security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter presents a
retrospective on this transformation in policing and government. Each entry in
Pentagon-Backed 'Black Hawk Down' Championed Military Intervention After 9/11
Sgt. Matt Eversmann played by Josh Hartnett in "Black Hawk Down" (Screen shot
from the promotional trailer for the film. Fair use for commentary purposes.)[Editor's Note: This is the third in The Dissenter's weekly series
[https://thedissenter.org/tag/9-11-cinema/] on 9/11 and its impact on cinema,
which