How a Viral Pentagon Video Became a Case Study in Misperception
In 2017, a grainy military video known as "GoFast" hit the internet, setting off a storm of speculation. Captured by a U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter jet and officially released by the Pentagon in 2020, the footage appeared to show a mysterious object tearing across the...
NSA Scrambled to Disprove Snowden’s Claims-While Withholding the Rest
In 2014, Edward Snowden publicly challenged the NSA to deny he had emailed agency lawyers raising concerns about surveillance programs. The NSA responded with silence, then a carefully orchestrated media campaign, and finally-hundreds of heavily redacted documents...
NSA Memo Details Dozens of U.S. Privacy Violations in Just One Quarter
It was supposed to be careful, targeted, and strictly within legal boundaries. But for three months in early 2003, the NSA’s internal compliance report reads like a checklist of domestic violations. From listening in on Americans’ private conversations to...
How the CIA Identified, Approached and Broke Recruits
A 1944 CIA training document, recently declassified, lays out in cold detail exactly how the agency evaluated and manipulated potential assets. More than a manual, it’s a psychological dissection of human vulnerability-who can be recruited, how to spot them, and how...
