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Executive director, @FreedomofPress . Views here are mine only.

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Trevor Timm
4 years
this thread is over 260 tweets long, filled almost exclusively with videos of unprovoked violence by police on peaceful protesters
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T. Greg Doucette
4 years
2️⃣3️⃣1️⃣: Buffalo, NY: police arrest a man *while he's being interviewed by the press* *with his hands in the air* Lawlessness
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Trevor Timm
4 years
Police are purposefully targeting reporters all over the country, in video after video. There’s no other way to describe it.
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Aaron Rupar
4 years
MSNBC reporters were just almost hit with some sort of explosive device by law enforcement officers in Minneapolis
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Some questions for reporters to ask Netflix: —How many employees have access to people's viewing habits? —Are there any controls on how they can access this data/what it can be used for? —What's the punishment for creeping on people? —Why are they publicly shaming customers?
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Netflix
7 years
To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?
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Trevor Timm
5 years
Congrats to everyone who spent last week expending considerable energy criticizing people for using the phrase “concentration camps”
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ABC News
5 years
Migrant children at least two U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities face conditions one doctor described as comparable to "torture facilities."
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Trevor Timm
7 years
It never fails. There is ALWAYS, always a tweet.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
11 years
Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.
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Trevor Timm
6 years
Except that time he pardoned all his aides under criminal investigation by a special counsel so it didn’t lead back to him
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CNN
6 years
George H.W. Bush was the exact political opposite of Donald Trump, writes CNN's Chris Cillizza
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Trevor Timm
8 years
If this is true, it means Flynn wasn't forced to resign for lying, he was forced to resign because it leaked to the press he was lying.
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Trevor Timm
6 years
The current conventional wisdom on twitter: 1) Trump is unstable, erratic, a lunatic, possibly has dementia, and 2) he should start another war in Syria
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Trevor Timm
7 years
I love how Lindsey Graham went from "I didn't know we had 1000 troops in Niger" to "we need more troops in Niger" in literally a day.
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Trevor Timm
7 years
All of a sudden people seem really eager to have Bob Mueller subpoena Michael Wolff's alleged tapes. That's a really dangerous road to go down. How about Mueller doesn't subpoena any journalists?
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Trevor Timm
6 years
In honor of Bernie Sanders announcing his candidacy, here's the greatest primary debate moment ever -- two years ago yesterday.
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Trevor Timm
8 years
Rudy Giuliani is cackling on MSNBC right now: "this is like Andrew Jackson's victory," he says. You know, the racist genocidal maniac.
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Trevor Timm
4 years
Police targeting journalists. On purpose. All over the country.
@MikeGeorgeCBS
Michael George
4 years
This is the moment Minneapolis Police fired on our CBS News crew with rubber bullets. As you can see, no protesters anywhere near us- we all were wearing credentials and had cameras out. Our sound engineer was hit in the arm. #cbsnews
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Trevor Timm
6 years
Props to @IlhanMN , here she is enraging Elliott Abrams by asking him about his support for murderous regimes in Latin America, and helping cover up their crimes, during the Reagan admin
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Trevor Timm
6 years
Will anyone in Congress today ask Elliott Abrams about the many war crimes—not an exaggeration—he helped cover up during the Reagan admin?
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Trevor Timm
6 years
This is going to be a hell of a trial.
@AP
The Associated Press
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BREAKING: Colin Kaepernick's collusion grievance to go to trial after arbitrator denies NFL's request for summary judgment.
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Trevor Timm
2 years
By continuing to extradite Assange, the Biden DOJ is ignoring the dire warnings of virtually every major civil liberties and human rights organization in the country that the case will do irreparable damage to basic press freedom rights of U.S. reporters.
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Trevor Timm
4 years
Wow. The decision was based on the US prison system being so awful and repressive that Assange would be at significant suicide risk.
@ewenmacaskill
Ewen MacAskill
4 years
Brilliant - and - unexpected. BrItish court rightly rules Julian Assange cannot be extradited to US.
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Trevor Timm
7 years
There's an argument that Trump's new threats against NBC & the NFL have crossed the line into an actual First Amendment violation. (Thread)
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Really annoying that stories on the JFK files are framed around "conspiracy theorists." How about this info shouldn't be secret for 50 yrs?
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Less than four years ago, John Brennan had the CIA spy on Democratic Senate staffers who were investigating CIA torture, tried to have them prosecuted, then blatantly lied about it. Now he’s a liberal hero, somehow?
@robreiner
Rob Reiner
7 years
When you libel James Clapper and John Brennan you libel America. The desperate attack on men who have given over 90 years of dedicated service to our country is clear evidence of a conscientiousness of guilt.
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Trevor Timm
3 years
This is unbelievable. The @nytimes literally published a 3000 word story about how boring I am. Tracked my movements, and even secretly followed me around with a camera! How do they not have a public editor??
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Trevor Timm
3 years
I'm sorry, but this is worrying from a press freedom perspective—unless & until DOJ releases evidence Protect Veritas was directly involved in the theft. Because if there is none, then the raids could very well be a violation of the Privacy Protection Act.
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Paul Ryan literally JUST voted two weeks ago to reauthorize a key part of FISA, while actively blocking modest safeguards intended to protect the privacy of Americans.
@TPM
Talking Points Memo
7 years
Ryan: It’s "critical" to focus on fixing FISA, not impugning the "integrity" of the FBI
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Trevor Timm
8 years
This is the inevitable result of not prosecuting torturers and war criminals when we had the chance.
@JameelJaffer
Jameel Jaffer
8 years
Trump considering nominating Jose Rodriguez to run CIA--guy who oversaw torture, destroyed waterboarding tapes
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Trevor Timm
8 years
This is also the exact scenario @Snowden warned about when he first went public. He was worried about future Trumps.
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Trevor Timm
9 years
On the left: Trump's remarks on the Internet & free speech everyone is making fun of. On the right: Hillary Clinton
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Trevor Timm
4 years
Zoom says all over the place—on its app, website, security white paper—that its video calls are "end-to-end encrypted," but when @theintercept asked them about it they said: “Currently, it is not possible to enable E2E encryption for Zoom video meetings."
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Trevor Timm
1 year
Here's a photo I took of the first time @DanielEllsberg spoke with Edward @Snowden in Sept. 2013 — on a burner laptop, using Tails and encrypted IM! He typed for three or four hours, and would've kept going if he could've
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Trevor Timm
4 years
I should probably clarify it's not ALL peaceful protesters, since some of the videos are police violence on innocent bystanders, people who happen to be commuting through, and journalists, too.
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Trevor Timm
4 years
This is the head of Human Rights Watch. Its okay to vehemently oppose Trump for 1000 different reasons, but still acknowledge a pardon of @Snowden is the right thing to do.
@KenRoth
Kenneth Roth
4 years
Speaking of Edward @Snowden , Trump concedes that “here are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly." Trump is right. Snowden did us an enormous service by spotlighting surveillance threats to our privacy. He shouldn't be prosecuted.
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Trevor Timm
8 years
So glad Democrats institutionalized a vast and unaccountable national security apparatus that will soon be controlled by a madman.
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Trevor Timm
8 years
Jesus. She was allegedly physically attacked *by other members of NYPD*
@WajahatAli
Wajahat Ali
8 years
NYPD officer was physically attacked, called a "Muslim bitch" as colleagues attempted to rip off her hijab
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Again, this is the same man who is literally prosecuting a woman for briefly laughing in his direction during his confirmation hearing.
@axios
Axios
7 years
Sessions at Georgetown will say campuses are "echo chamber of political correctness" and "shelter for fragile egos"
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Trevor Timm
4 years
BREAKING: After less than 2 hours of deliberation, jury finds @dmregister reporter Andrea Sahouri NOT GUILTY on all charges.
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Trevor Timm
8 years
My favorite Muhammad Ali quote, never really cited among his most famous, from Hunter S. Thompson's 1978 profile
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8 years
If only he had been in some sort of position of power for the last 8 years so he could've done something about it.
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Trevor Timm
8 years
"Solutions" post-Orlando: 1. More spying powers—even tho he was under surveillance 2. Use watch list for guns—even tho he wasn't on the list
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Trevor Timm
6 years
ACLU took Amazon's facial recognition tech—which Amazon is aggressively selling to police—and loaded it with 25,000 mugshots. Then, they ran photos of members of Congress against the mugshots. They got 28 matches, 40% of them Congressmen of color.
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Trevor Timm
5 years
Kudos to Bernie, this is the most important stance any candidate has taken affecting press freedom so far. Hopefully this will force others to follow.
@ryangrim
Ryan Grim
5 years
Bernie Sanders pledges to end practice of prosecuting whistleblowers under the Espionage Act
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Trevor Timm
8 years
This is fucking terrifying.
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Trevor Timm
6 years
This is CRAZY. Journalists were inadvertently given a list of police misconduct reports via a public records request. The California AG is now saying the journalists are breaking the law by merely *possessing* the documents and threatened legal action.
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Trevor Timm
4 years
Great news. @DavidLat has been transferred out of the ICU and is off the ventilator
@DavidLat
David Lat
4 years
A quick update on my status (aka reports of my death on a bunch of random “fake news” websites in the Philippines have been greatly exaggerated ( #COVID19 #CoronavirusUSA #CoronavirusOutbreak #notdeadyet ):
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Trevor Timm
8 years
"I wish I had that power" Trump said today in response to the hacking of his political enemies. If elected, he will.
@reidepstein
Reid J. Epstein
8 years
Trump says he didn't have anything to do with DNC email hack. “I wish I had that power, man, that would be power," he said in Scranton.
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Trevor Timm
4 years
The @NYTimes reviewed over 60 videos capturing police violence on protesters in NYC. "In instance after instance, the police are seen using force on people who do not appear to be resisting arrest or posing an immediate threat to anyone."
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Trevor Timm
8 years
In their hit job on WikiLeaks, NYT claims the TPP leak helped Russia. They left out they were partners on that story
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Trevor Timm
8 years
Reporter Amy Goodman is turning herself in to North Dakota authorities today—she’s wanted for committing journalism.
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Trevor Timm
4 years
In about 15 minutes, I'll be testifying in the Assange extradition hearing as an expert witness for the defense on why the Trump admin's charges threaten core press freedoms for countless journalists in the United States.
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Trevor Timm
8 years
If politics led to logical conclusions, the hack of the DNC might inspire the party to take a stronger stance on end-to-end encryption.
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Trevor Timm
5 years
I feel like Trump has warped people's brains so much that any criticism of the media is now taken as an assault on press rights. There's a huge difference between Bernie critiquing corporate media ownership & Trump calling the press "the enemy of the people" all day every day.
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Trevor Timm
4 years
Doctors and nurses who bravely alerted the public about the startling lack of protective gear in hospitals are being suspended or fired for speaking the press. It's unconscionable.
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Jeff Flake just voted to hand Trump more domestic surveillance power yesterday. His words are beyond meaningless
@brianstelter
Brian Stelter
7 years
Flake: "An American president who cannot take criticism... who must constantly deflect and distort and distract... is charting a very dangerous path. And a Congress that fails to act as a check on the president adds to the danger."
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Trevor Timm
8 years
Well this is awkward
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Trevor Timm
6 years
I hope people see how precedent the Trump admin wants to get against WikiLeaks under the Espionage Act can easily be turned around and used on mainstream reporters. Hard to overstate how dangerous it would be for press freedom.
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Trevor Timm
8 years
The lesson is he should be in jail. Saved you a click.
@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
8 years
The lessons of Henry Kissinger
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Trevor Timm
8 years
The idea that Snowden must go to court before getting pardoned is just wrong. See the most famous pardon ever: Nixon
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Bernie Sanders has a +41 favorability rating with independents. +41! That's virtually unheard of.
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Trevor Timm
7 years
To anyone with the Comey memos on Trump, here's instructions on how to anonymously send them to over 40 news orgs who have a @SecureDrop
@FreedomofPress
Freedom of the Press
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If you work for the Trump administration and your conscience compels you to blow the whistle, you can use @SecureDrop to contact the press.
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Trevor Timm
5 years
Oh my god, this is beyond disturbing. The Bolsonaro regime has charged journalist @ggreenwald with "cybercrimes" for publishing stories showing widespread corruption in Brazil.
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Here's @adamjohnsonNYC putting the gigantic Pentagon budget increase that no one in DC cared about into perspective
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Trevor Timm
7 years
This happens over and over and over, yet the CIA keeps doing it.
@USATODAY
USA TODAY
7 years
#BREAKING : Sophisticated U.S. weapons secretly provided to Syrian rebels quickly fell into the hands of ISIS terrorists, according to a study released today.
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9 years
Post-Paris debate: 1. No evidence attackers used encryption—let's ban it anyways 2. Attackers not Syrian nor refugees—let's ban them anyways
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Trevor Timm
1 year
Once again, I am begging US journalists to pay attention to — and speak out! — about the incredibly dangerous prosecution of Julian Assange. Your own basic press freedom rights are at stake — even if you hate him.
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Trevor Timm
8 years
Fuck Trump. THIS is what America's about, at its best.
@NYCMayorsOffice
NYC Mayor's Office
8 years
LITERALLY on the ground. Volunteer lawyers are working pro-bono on a Saturday preparing habeus corpus petitions for detainees at JFK.
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Trevor Timm
8 years
"Hi, I'm Michael Hayden. I once helped President Bush ignore the FISA court & wiretap Americans. Let me explain why that could never happen"
@BusinessInsider
Business Insider
8 years
Here's why the former head of the CIA says Obama never tapped Trump's phones
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Trevor Timm
5 years
This bill went from all-but-passed to dead only because of relentless reporting from @JustinElliott and @propublica . Really incredible work
@propublica
ProPublica
5 years
New: Congress is scrapping a provision of an IRS reform bill that would make a permanent deal between the government and private tax filing companies, torpedoing a long-sought goal by industry giant @Intuit , the maker of @TurboTax .
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3 years
The US government unilaterally censoring websites on a global scale based on vague “disinformation” claims. Glad we can be assured this power definitely won’t be abused or copied, or backfire
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Trevor Timm
6 years
Running tally of the major initiatives some Senate Democrats have agreed to help the GOP pass recently: 1. More surveillance powers for Trump 2. Killing debate on US support for the appalling war in Yemen 3. Deregulating banks 4. Installing a torturer as head of the CIA
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Trevor Timm
6 years
The CIA shell game: —If you carried out the torture, you shouldn't be prosecuted b/c you were "following orders" —If you gave the orders, you shouldn't b/c you relied on "legal advice" —If you wrote the legal advice, you shouldn't b/c then lawyers won't give their candid opinion
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Brian Williams refers to this Pentagon video of missiles going to kill people as "beautiful" 3 times in 30 seconds
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Trevor Timm
9 years
So the FBI's claim they were only after one iPhone in the San Bernardino case lasted...less than 24 hours.
@CNBCnow
CNBC Now
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NEW: $AAPL involved in other court fights beyond San Bernardino; Justice Dept seeking data from ~12 other iPhones in criminal cases - DJ
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Wonder how many people who called for Snowden to be prosecuted are hoping for a Snowden inside DOJ or FBI right about now...
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6 years
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"When a user gives Facebook a phone number for two-factor authentication or in order to receive alerts about new log-ins to a user’s account, that phone number became targetable by an advertiser within a couple of weeks."
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For those new to the "FBI is out of control" beat, read @ACLU 's report on the agency: "Unleashed and Unaccountable"
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7 years
Jim Comey interrupts his regular schedule of tweeting MLK quotes to tell everyone to support a pro-domestic surveillance bill
@Comey
James Comey
7 years
Thoughtful leaders on both sides of the aisle know FISA section 702 is a vital and carefully overseen tool to protect this country. This isn’t about politics. Congress must reauthorize it.
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It was just a few years ago that John Brennan ordered the CIA to spy on Democratic Senate staffers investigating torture, and then blatantly lied about it to the public. It’s amazing people (pretend to) forget this.
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Miriam Elder
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There are some good examples out there of people questioning Trump’s temper tantrum today without lionizing John Brennan as a faultless angel. There’s also a lot of ... not that.
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Trevor Timm
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You really have to read this entire, well-reported investigation to believe it. Truly appalling behavior by the CIA involving illegal kidnapping and assassination plans. The Biden admin needs to drop its charges against Assange immediately.
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Trevor Timm
7 years
Here's our statement at @FreedomofPress on Jeff Sessions's disturbing press conference about leaks and journalism
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7 years
Here's who Harvard is losing because they are gaining Chelsea Manning. I think that's what they call a win-win.
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Trevor Timm
4 years
Groups FOR a @Snowden pardon: @ACLU , @EFF , @HRW , @Amnesty , and virtually every other major civil liberties and human rights org. Those AGAINST it: Liz Cheney, Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell, & a lot of ex-CIA officials who defended torture and mass spying. Choose your team.
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I was recently on a panel w/ @DanielEllsberg where he implored a room of 200 reporters to skeptically investigate the secrecy system. So in honor of our dear friend, we're going to do just that: Announcing the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy
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Trevor Timm
10 years
So what happens now that the police in #Ferguson have violated this signed court agreement not to arrest journalists? http://t.co/hRkedBuy7w
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7 years
This whole @ggreenwald piece defending @ACLU 's principles is important, but this part is especially salient today:
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Trevor Timm
8 years
Every word of @tomscocca 's Gawker obit is worth reading, but this is really the gut punch
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8 years
It's hard not to burst out laughing when the DIRECTOR OF THE CIA says something like this.
@NoahShachtman
Noah Shachtman
8 years
CIA Director Brennan warns of "foreign actors" looking to "manipulate the foundation of our democracy, which is an election." #AspenSecurity
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Reporter asks Ahmed: "The police chief wants to meet with you, will you?" "Not without my lawyer, no." Awesome. http://t.co/MT9uI7e9ja
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7 years
Very sad news. James Dolan, co-creator of @SecureDrop , has passed away at age 36. He was an amazing talent and a wonderful person. He will be sorely missed.
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8 years
The encrypted calls and texts app Signal—which everyone should download!—has seen 400% growth since the election
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Trevor Timm
5 years
This is arguably the most important story in the world right now. Read this thread.
@ggreenwald
Glenn Greenwald
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1/ It cannot be exaggerated what a threat to the planet Jair Bolsonaro is. From the @washingtonpost : “Huge tracts of the Amazon, which serves as the lungs of the planet by taking in carbon dioxide, storing it in soils and producing oxygen, are ablaze.”
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Trevor Timm
6 years
A key claim DOJ has made is that Winner's leak "gravely harmed" national security. It was always bullshit, but Mueller proved it last month by publishing much of the same information--including info that the NSA insisted that The Intercept should redact.
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Trevor Timm
5 years
None of this is true, even if you 100% believe everything in the DOJ indictment. DOJ does NOT allege Assange helped Manning access more documents than she already had access to, and it does NOT allege the password cracking even worked.
@msnbcevents
MSNBC LIVE
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. @MalcolmNance : [Manning] with the assistance of Assange broke into a server & removed 400,000 secret-level U.S. government documents... Assange used a hacker's tool to gain access to the password... So no journalism here. What we have in an [alleged} act of espionage. #AMJoy
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Trevor Timm
5 years
Pretty impressive “unintentional” mistake, gotta hand it to them.
@thetomzone
catturd2.bsky.social
5 years
NEW: Facebook confirmed to Gizmodo that after it asked some users to hand over passwords to their email accounts, it "unintentionally" extracted contact lists for friend suggestions and ad purposes without consent
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