The CIA Takes to Twitter and Facebook

Staff / Truthdig Nov 4, 2011 Is the CIA following your tweets? Or perhaps it "Likes" your latest thoughts while showering that you have posted on Facebook. These startling considerations may apply only if you're overseas -- or so the agency says. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Patriot Act Renewal

Mike Keefe, The Denver Post May 30, 2011 Dig deeper

Four More Years of Wiretapping Fun

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2011 On Thursday, the Senate voted in favor of extending the part of the Patriot Act that allows U.S. law enforcement officials to legally eavesdrop on certain phone calls for the sake of -- you guessed it -- homeland security. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

But Was It Murder?

Bill Blum / Truthdig May 14, 2011 As much as we all might wish that the counter-narrative, with all of its uncomfortable implications, would fade away, it’s not likely to, given this country’s obsession with legal process. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Senators Give Post-bin Laden Prognoses

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2011 In titling this clip featuring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, The Associated Press noted that the "Bin Laden-Fed Unity May Be Short-Lived" in Congress. You think? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Washington Post Delves Into ‘Top Secret America’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 19, 2010 It's no secret that the intelligence community in the United States has undergone significant changes since Sept 11, 2001, but the extent to which the spying business has expanded in nine years is nearly impossible to gauge (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Terrorists, Turn In Your Citizenship Cards

Staff / Truthdig May 7, 2010 A new bill by everyone's favorite Sen. Joe Lieberman and newly elected Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown aims to give the State Department permission to yank the citizenship status of individuals who allegedly ally themselves with terrorists and terrorist groups. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Renews Patriot Act Provisions

Staff / Truthdig Feb 28, 2010 The president has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the Patriot Act that would have expired Sunday, renewing the government's authority to spy on phones and seize records and property of citizens. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Senate Democrats Whittle Down Jobs Bill

Staff / Truthdig Feb 12, 2010 Here we have yet another example of partisan politicking in action: Senate Democrats, led by Harry Reid, tossed out a jobs bill they'd created in tandem with Republicans and produced a trimmed-down alternative at the eleventh hour This did not please their former collaborators from the GOP (continued). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.S. Treats Refugees Like Terrorists

Staff / Truthdig Jul 27, 2009 McClatchy reports on a section of the Patriot Act that bizarrely requires the U.S. to treat certain refugees as terrorists. Sami Alkarim, an Iraqi artist who was tortured by Saddam Hussein's regime, can't get his status sorted "because of messenger work he did as a teenager for the same political party that counts the current prime minister of Iraq as a member." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Amy Goodman on ‘Standing Up to the Madness’

Staff / Truthdig Mar 31, 2009 The "Democracy Now!" host talks about her book, the state of activism and why "the media are the most powerful corporations on Earth -- more powerful than any bomb, more powerful than any missile." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rebutting the False Choice Between Security and Freedom

Staff / Truthdig Feb 17, 2009 A three-year review of more than 40 countries has found that justice systems prior to 9/11 were perfectly capable of combating terrorism. The U.S. and Britain were especially opportunistic in their violations of human rights and international law and gave comfort by example to other abusive regimes, the International Commission of Jurists found. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )