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The CIA’s Fugitive Banker

How Michael Jon Hand, at the center of a mystery surrounding an Australian bank with ties to American intelligence officials that defrauded investors and then collapsed, was found in Idaho 35 years after disappearing.

Raymond Bonner

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‘Sicario”s Dirty War on Mexican Cartels Is Not Yet Reality

Denis Villeneuve’s movie gets much right about the borderlands but crosses the line into exaggeration. A veteran border correspondent compares the film’s underworld to the one he knows.

Sebastian Rotella

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The Case for Passports for the World’s Refugees

There is past precedent for the production of passports for refugees by an international body, and now is the time to use it.

Michael Soussan

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The Consequences of Psychology’s Shameful Collusion in Torture

The American Psychological Association pandered to the CIA out of self-interest. In so doing, it betrayed a core ethical spirit—and opened the path to a dangerous future.

Joseph R. Slaughter

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The Forgotten Detainee of Guantanamo Bay

The Senate torture report chronicled the CIA’s interrogation of high-profile detainee Abu Zubaydah, but the justice system’s treatment of his habeas corpus petition has largely escaped notice.

Raymond Bonner

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Leaked Private Emails Reveal Former Hillary Clinton Aide’s Top Secret Spy Network

Emails disclosed by a hacker show a close family friend was funneling intelligence about the crisis in Libya directly to the Secretary of State’s private account starting before the Benghazi attack.

Jeff Gerth & Sam Biddle

Environment

When Spies Tweet

How are government agencies adapting to the social media age?

Grayson Clary

Environment

Here’s One Unexpected Way to Land on the NSA’s Watch List

If you downloaded the privacy software Tor in 2011, you may have been flagged to be spied on.

Julia Angwin & Mike Tigas

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ZunZuneo: Do Former Users Even Care That It Was Secretly Built by USAID?

Our criticism of the U.S. government's covert or "discreet" funding of communication channels like ZunZuneo or Radio Free Europe presumes that they try to seed something non-native.

Yuliya Komska

Environment

Another Name for the Bermuda Triangle: The Ocean

Ships disappear everywhere, not just in the western North Atlantic Ocean.

Katie Heaney