The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities
How New York City built its own CIA.
How New York City built its own CIA.
Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman New York Aug 2013 20min Permalink
After texts and phone calls are hacked and leaked, women across America are murdering each other for insults, slights, and dishonesty.
"Mom was trying to board up the window. She was terrible with hammers, with nails. Our living room was a sea of glass. The window was everywhere and everything was wrong. I wanted to tell someone about this but I couldn’t call Guncha. The phones didn’t even work anymore. That was how America was trying to fight. Just get people to stop interacting. There were curfews in effect. The phones were shut down. They figured if they could keep us from being near each other then maybe we would stop killing each other.
Caroline Kepnes Necessary Fiction Jul 2013 10min Permalink
The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 25min Permalink
The multiple lives of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Jul 2013 45min Permalink
Following the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Pakistani government set up a commission to establish how U.S. forces could have violated Pakistani sovereignty without repercussions, and how Bin Laden came to reside secretly in Pakistan for so long. This is what they found.
The day-to-day monotony and close calls of Bin Laden’s years on the lam.
How Pakistan helped allow Bin Laden to go undetected for so long.
The story of the night Bin Laden was killed, as told by those in the crosshairs.
Asad Hashim Al Jazeera Jul 2013 30min Permalink
The story of the attack that killed U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, told from the persepctive of the security agents there to protect him.
Fred Burton, Samuel M. Katz Vanity Fair Aug 2013 30min Permalink
The heroes of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Sean Flynn GQ Jun 2013 25min Permalink
On Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, “the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden,” whose death five years ago remains a mystery.
Mark Perry Foreign Policy Apr 2013 15min Permalink
The story of the manhunt.
Globe Staff The Boston Globe Apr 2013 55min Permalink
When a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur pulled over to answer a text message he was carjacked by Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. This is what happened that night and how he escaped.
Eric Moskowitz The Boston Globe Apr 2013 10min Permalink
A profile of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Jenna Russell, Jenn Abelson, Patricia Wen, Michael Rezendes, David Filipov The Boston Globe Apr 2013 15min Permalink
On the American teenager who was kidnapped by Islamic militants while on vacation in the Philippines.
Susan Svrluga Washington Post Apr 2013 20min Permalink
On the legal and practical details of the drone strikes that killed New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki and later, accidentally, his sixteen-year-old Colorado-born son.
Mark Mazzetti, Charlie Savage, Scott Shane New York Times Mar 2013 15min Permalink
How one woman is monitoring the jihadi network from a home office in Montana.
On the escape of hundreds of insurgents from Kandahar’s Sarposa Prison through a tunnel dug from the outside, and an unlikely suspect: the jail’s former warden.
Luke Mogelson GQ Jun 2012 25min Permalink
From prison, a member of the Earth Liberation Front tells her story.
McKenzie Funk Outside Aug 2007 20min Permalink
A clandestine meeting between Western journalists and Hezbollah fighters in a Beirut strip mall.
Mitchell Prothero Vice Mar 2012 25min Permalink
A profile of the Waffle House terrorists, a group of senior citizens arrested by the Department of Homeland security for plotting a civil war, and the government-hired confidential informant who allegedly led the group astray.
On Thanksgiving weekend, I received a phone call informing me that we had just captured approximately 300 al-Qaeda and Taliban. I asked all our assistant secretaries and regional bureaus to canvass literally the world to begin to look at what options we had as to where a detention facility could be established. We began to eliminate places for different reasons. One day, in one of our meetings, we sat there puzzled as places continued to be eliminated. An individual from the Department of Justice effectively blurted out, What about Guantánamo?
Cullen Murphy, David Rose, Philippe Sands, Todd S. Purdum Vanity Fair Jan 2011 55min Permalink
Looking for holes in the world’s nuclear security.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Dec 2006 40min Permalink
The identity of the designer of a proposed 9/11 memorial competition inflames the emotions and the prejudices of an observer.
"The Rally to Protect Sacred Ground kicked off on a balmy Saturday morning in a plaza opposite the site. The members of both the Memorial Defense Committee and Save America From Islam were there, gathered in a cordoned-off area in front of the stage. Behind them stretched thousands: women holding signs that said NO TOLERANCE FOR THE INTOLERANT or KHAN IS A CON; fathers hoisting small children on their shoulders; men in camouflage who may or may not have been veterans. "
Amy Waldman The Atlantic Jan 2011 30min Permalink
An interview with the author.
"We live in a frightened time and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions. That is one of the great damaging aspects of what has happened in the last 20 years. Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' I am a writer. I write books."
Gidi Weitz Haaretz Oct 2011 30min Permalink
Why had the U.S. once again targeted Gaddafi? Of all the evils and perils in the world, there is none that galls Reagan more than terrorism. Of all the anti-American thugs who hang out in the back alleys of the Third World, there is none Reagan despises more than Gaddafi.
As part of his obsessive search for evidence of UFOs, Gary McKinnon worked his way into thousands of government computers. The U.S. charged him with terrorism. Doctors diagnosed him with Asperger’s. And his lawyers started arguing a new version of the insanity defense.
David Kushner IEEE Spectrum Jul 2011 10min Permalink
On the FBI’s program to infiltrate Muslim communities in America.
Trevor Aaronson Mother Jones Sep 2011 Permalink