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Writers

Peter Maass

Destroyed By the Espionage Act

You can have a PhD from Yale. You can be a rising star in the State Department. And you can still find yourself being investigated by the FBI for espionage.

Peter Maass The Intercept Feb 2015 45min Permalink

Arts Media Movies & TV

How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”

Peter Maass New York Times Magazine Aug 2013 30min Permalink

Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?

No, but for security software companies it’s a useful fiction.

Megha Rajagopalan, Peter Maass ProPublica Aug 2012 15min Permalink

The Toppling

The story behind the fall of Saddam’s statue in Baghdad.

Peter Maass New Yorker Jan 2011 35min Permalink