Kash Patel Got Arrested for Public Urination After a Night of Drinking

Trevor Aaronson

The FBI director was arrested twice in his youth for alcohol-related incidents that he said were “not representative of my usual conduct.”
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ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed

Radley Balko

A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.
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Kash Patel Is Using MAGA’s Favorite Tool to Muzzle the Free Press

Eoin Higgins

By suing The Atlantic for defamation, the FBI director is leveraging one of Trump’s legal tactics to tamp down free speech.
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Trump Has Already Spent at Least $4.7 Billion Attacking Latin America

Nick Turse

It’s not cheap to attack Venezuela and capture its president or conduct dozens of strikes on civilian boats.
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Palantir Is Helping Trump’s IRS Conduct “Massive-Scale” Data Mining

Sam Biddle

Military contractor Palantir has been paid more than $130 million by the IRS to analyze sensitive federal databases.
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“We Knew They Were Paying Informants”: SPLC Donors Reject Trump DOJ Fraud Claims

Noah Hurowitz

Twenty donors to the Southern Poverty Law Center said the alleged “fraud” being prosecuted in their name was exactly how they hoped the group would spend their money.
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“Me Too” Comes Back to Congress

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Intercept staffers discuss the themes emerging this midterm election season.
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