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DEA Agents Ambush Amtrak Passengers With Controversial Searches and Seizures

Posted on August 31, 2019
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Afew hours characteristically behind schedule, Amtrak’s Southwest Chief rolls into Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the small station that it shares with the Greyhound bus service on the edge of downtown. Most people step off to stretch their legs or have a cigarette during the layover, the longest smoke break in the entire trip.

Brazil’s Chief Prosecutor, Deltan Dallagnol, Lied When He Denied Leaking to the Press, Secret Chats Reveal

Posted on August 29, 2019
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Brazil’s chief prosecutor overseeing its sweeping anti-corruption probe, Deltan Dallagnol, lied to the public when he vehemently denied in that his prosecutorial task force leaked secret information about investigations to achieve its ends. In fact, in the months preceding his false claim, Dallagnol was a participant in secret chats exclusively obtained by The Intercept, in which prosecutors plotted to leak information to the media with the goal of manipulating suspects by making them believe that their indictment was imminent even when it was not, in order to intimidate them into signing confessions that implicated other targets of the investigation.

Critics of the so-called Car Wash investigation — which imprisoned dozens of Brazilian elites including, most significantly, the center-left ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva when he was  (ultimately won by Jair Bolsonaro after Lula was barred) — long suspected that the prosecutorial team was responsible for numerous media reports that revealed sensitive details about suspects targeted by the investigations. Dallagnol and his team always publicly, even angrily, denied this.

Border Patrol Arrest Reports Are Full of Lies That Can Sabotage Asylum Claims

Posted on August 11, 2019
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On December 29, 2017, the night his daughter was born, Augusto left the hospital and rode his motorcycle to his home in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, to pick up a change of clothes for his wife.

The Unraveling of the Conspiracy Case Against No More Deaths Volunteer Scott Warren

Posted on August 10, 2019
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The federal courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, has always been a place where the borderlands and the American justice system collide. Described by its engineers as “a gateway to the desert and the mountains beyond,” it was completed in 2000, the year that the Pima County medical examiner’s office began tracking an explosion of deaths in that same desert. Each afternoon, Monday through Thursday, dozens of chained migrants who survived the journey across the border but found themselves in Border Patrol custody are marched up from the building’s bowels for mass hearings.

The Trump Administration Is Using the Full Power of the U.S. Surveillance State Against Whistleblowers

Posted on August 4, 2019
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Government whistleblowers are increasingly being charged under laws such as the , but they aren’t spies. They’re ordinary Americans and, like most of us, they carry smartphones that automatically get backed up to the cloud.

 

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