Propaganda Firm Leonie Owner Admits Targeting Journalists

May 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News

WASHINGTON – The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted Thursday that he was behind a series of websites used to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor. Screengrab from home page of leoniegroup.comCamille...

Excessive Harrassment: U.S. ‘Activist’ filmmaker Rrepeatedly Detained At Border

May 21, 2012 | Activism

One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention. With no oversight or legal framework whatsoever, the Department of Homeland Security routinely singles out...

Dis-Info Campaign Against Journalists Who Investigate Contracting Firms

Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News

(Left) Tom Vanden Brook (on C-Span in 2010), a senior reporter for USA Today apparently targeted by a cyber-attack of misinformation and harassment. Photograph: guardiannews.com The report by USA Today in which two of the paper’s employees became targets of...

Why Is Homeland Security Harassing Filmmaker Laura Poitras?

Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Government Agenda

Glenn Greenwald has a horrifying look at the repeated harassment to which filmmaker Laura Poitras, who has made a series of powerful documentaries about the impact of the War on Terror, has been subject when she’s returned home to the United States from trips abroad:...