Effective Counterterrorism

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What’s Your Threat Score?

By Sarah Burris / AlterNet Jan 16, 2016 Authorities are harvesting and evaluating your data to calculate your "threat score." Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Controversial British Intelligence Unit Engaged in Domestic Law Enforcement

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 22, 2015 Documents published by The Intercept on Monday reveal that a British spy unit purported by officials to be focused on foreign intelligence and counterterrorism -- and notorious for using the “most controversial tactics of surveillance, online propaganda and deceit” -- is heavily focused on political groups and other domestic matters. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Assassination as Washington Policy and How It Failed, 1990-2015

By Andrew Cockburn, TomDispatch Apr 29, 2015 The strangest part of the story is that a strategy that achieved the very opposite of its intended goal in the drug wars would later be applied full scale to the war on terror -- with exactly the same results. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Journalist for The Intercept Is Kicked Out of Counterterrorism Conference

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 24, 2015 “We’re not banning you, we’re just not allowing you access,” a security officer told reporter Ryan Gallagher when he showed up at one of the world’s largest annual counterterrorism events. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Obama Riddle

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig May 27, 2013 You wonder if President Obama sometimes finds himself singing a variant on Kermit the Frog's anthem about the burdens of being green: It's not easy being Barack Obama. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Medea Benjamin

BLANK May 26, 2013 At the president's counterterrorism address Thursday, Medea Benjamin used her voice to cry out against political hypocrisy and double dealing in Obama's war policies. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech

Bill Blum / Truthdig May 24, 2013 The president’s address Thursday left at least three core issues in the war on terror entirely unsettled: when Guantanamo will close, who will oversee future drone attacks and when surveillance of the press will end.The president’s address Thursday left at least three core issues in the war on terror entirely unsettled. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Terror Suspect Database Grows

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 3, 2013 The number of names on a highly classified US database used to track suspected terrorists has jumped from 540,000 to 875,000 in just five years, a U official said. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

An Interview With Marjorie Cohn About Targeted Killings

By Dennis Bernstein Feb 9, 2013 We have a global battlefield, where if there is someone, anywhere, who might be associated with Al-Qaida, according to a high government official, then Obama can authorize on Terror Tuesday who he is going to kill after consulting with counterterrorism guru John Brennan. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Obama’s CIA Pick Stinks of Torture, Targeted Killings

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jan 8, 2013 John Brennan has spent the last four years as President Obama's counterterrorism adviser and the "architect" of the administration's expansive drone assassination program. Some time before that, he was a deputy executive director of the CIA when that agency pioneered the use of extradition and torture under President George W. Bush. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Secret Docs: The FBI vs. Occupy

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 27, 2012 Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the woman who obtained records showing the FBI monitored Occupy Wall Street from its earliest days as a potential terrorist threat, talks about how agents conducted the effort to track the movement. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )