ROB GILLIES and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN / The Associated PressMar 4, 2019
The pair's arrest is widely seen as an attempt by the Chinese to pressure Canada to release a Huawei executive facing extradition to U.S. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 29, 2015
The Russian president has declared that all military deaths -- in peacetime as well as wartime -- will be classified as state secrets, with violations punishable by up to seven years in prison. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 15, 2014
For almost a decade the U.S. government refused to let Stanford Ph.D. student Rahinah Ibrahim back in the country after putting her on a no-fly list and not telling her why. Invoking the state secrets privilege, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed the information she wanted “could reasonably be expected to cause significant harm to national security.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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BLANKAug 21, 2013
The biggest secrets at famed Area 51 had less to do with rumored UFOs and extraterrestrials than with the poisoning of government workers. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigMar 4, 2013
His trial is not simply the persecution of a courageous whistle-blower, but a state mechanism to destroy the independence of the press and its ability to expose the power elite's criminal activity. His trial is a state mechanism to destroy the ability of the press to expose the power elite's criminal activity. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 1, 2013
Pfc. Bradley Manning pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he illegally acquired a cache of U.S. state secrets and later provided it to WikiLeaks, but not guilty to the most serious charge against him -- that he “aided the enemy.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 16, 2012
Ecuador has granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but Britain has issued a letter claiming the legal right to forcibly remove him from the embassy if the Ecuadoreans fail to hand him over. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 15, 2012
Sources within the Ecuadorean government report that President Rafael Correa has agreed to grant asylum to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is wanted by Sweden for alleged sexual misconduct, and by the United States for publishing state secrets. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 12, 2012
Since spring 2010, Pfc. Bradley Manning has been detained by the U.S. government on suspicion of leaking state secrets. His attorney now argues that the conditions of his detainment constitute punishment before trial. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 22, 2011
Essayist, Yale English professor and TomDispatch contributor David Bromwich takes a careful accounting of the "sacked" and "saved" members of the Obama administration in an attempt to reveal the similarities between his presidency and George W. Bush's. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 7, 2010
This one sounds like something from a supermarket tabloid, but apparently it's of a slightly more substantiated nature: On Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's no doubt long list of action items is the rather peculiar request to figure out whether a regional leader gave state secrets to (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 23, 2009
How about that Eric Holder? The Justice Department plans to make it harder for the government to hide behind "national security" in legal cases -- a process that has been abused since a highly flawed Supreme Court decision first allowed wide latitude in such matters. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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