Gestapo Courts
By Annie Machon. This article was first published on Huffington Post. A lot of sound and fury has been expended in the British media over the last few months about the Coalition government's proposal...
View ArticleAsymmetric Extradition — the American Way
By Annie Machon. Published in the Huffington Post UK and Information Clearing House I blame my partner. There I was having a perfectly nice day off, pootling my way through the Sunday...
View ArticleEchelon Redux
By Annie Machon. This article was first published on anniemachon.ch. Just a quickie, as this is some sort of holiday season apparently. However, this did annoy me. In the same way that...
View ArticleLies, damned lies, and newspaper reporting…
Where to start with this tangled skein of media spin, misrepresentation and outright hypocrisy? Last week the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence presented this year’s award...
View ArticleCIA and MI6 "ghost money" in Afghanistan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has recently been criticised for taking "ghost money" from the CIA and MI6. The sums are inevitably unknown, for the usual reasons of "national security", but are...
View ArticleWoolwich murder — the “why?” should be obvious
The brutal murder in Woolwich last week of Drummer Lee Rigby rightly caused shock and outrage. Inevitably there has been a media feeding frenzy about “terrorist” attacks and home-grown...
View ArticleEdward Snowden — the Globalisation of Whistleblowing
By Annie Machon. I have held back from writing about the Edward Snowden NSA whistleblowing case for the last week — partly because I was immersed in the resulting media interviews and talks, and...
View ArticleDearlove Doublethink
In a sensational article in a UK newspaper last weekend, the former head of the UK’s foreign intelligence gathering agency, MI6, appears to have broken the code of omertà around the...
View ArticleLIBE whistleblower hearing at the European Parliament
This week I was invited to give a statement to the LIBE Committee at the European Parliament about whistleblowing and the NSA mass surveillance scandal. I was in good company: ex-NSA Tom...
View ArticleNiemoeller Redux - a call to journalists to speak out against the crack down...
I regularly revisit the famous Pastor Martin Niemoeller poem from the Nazi era as his words remain resonant in our post-9/11, "war on terror" world. Over the last week threads of various alarming...
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