Tag: Investigative Reporting
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Excessive Harrassment: U.S. ‘Activist’ filmmaker Rrepeatedly Detained At Border
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 individuals who are suspected of no crimes, detains them and questions them at the airport,…
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Dis-Info Campaign Against Journalists Who Investigate Contracting Firms
(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 a widespread and dishonest online disinformation campaign immediately after making inquiring calls to several intelligence contractors with ties to…
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Top Secret America: Network of Gov’t Contractors
“Top Secret America” is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. When it comes to national security, all too often no expense is spared and few questions are asked – with the result an enterprise so massive…