# The Intercept ## Wikipedia page "Erik Wemple, writing for The Washington Post, noted the conspicuous refusal of The Intercept to use the term "targeted killings" to refer to the U.S. drone program, instead referring to the drone strikes as "assassinations". Wemple included Glenn Greenwald's explanation that assassination is "the accurate term rather than the euphemistic term that the government wants us to use"; Greenwald further noted that "anyone who is murdered deliberately away from a battlefield for political purposes is being assassinated".[18] TechCrunch referred to the story as clear evidence of "unabashed opposition to security hawks".[19]" - Hell yeah "In August 2014, it was reported that members of the U.S. military had been banned from reading The Intercept." - Citation: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Intercept#/U.S._government_reaction - Read the thing they don't want you to read ### [[Matthew Cole]] at [[The Intercept]] leaked the identity of [[Reality Winner]] [[Reality Winner]] [[Wikipedia]] page: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Reality_Winner#/Sentencing_and_confinement Description at [[The Intercept]] [[Wikipedia]] page: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Intercept#/Reality_Winner_controversy NSA whistleblower [John Kiriakou](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/John_Kiriakou) and [Guantanamo Bay detention camp](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp) whistleblower Joseph Hickman have both accused the same reporter accused of revealing Winner's identity, Matthew Cole, of playing a role in their exposure, which, in Kiriakou's case, led to his imprisonment. On August 23, 2018, at a federal court in Georgia, Winner was sentenced to the agreed-upon five years and three months in prison for violating the Espionage Act. Prosecutors said her sentence was the longest ever imposed in federal court for an unauthorized release of government information to the media.[38] Winner was being held at the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP)'s Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, in order to receive treatment for bulimia and be close to her family.[38] On November 30, 2020, Laura Poitras, one of the founding editors of The Intercept, left the company. She said she was fired in relation to the Winner controversy. ### Resignation of [[Glenn Greenwald]] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Intercept#/Resignation_of_Glenn_Greenwald On October 29, 2020, Glenn Greenwald resigned from The Intercept, saying that he faced political censorship and contractual breaches from the editors, who he wrote had prevented him from reporting on the conduct of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, with regard to China and Ukraine.[41] On The Joe Rogan Experience, Greenwald stated that he thinks his colleagues did not want to report anything negative about Joe Biden because they were desperate for Trump to lose.[42] The Intercept disputed Greenwald's accusations, writing that he "believes that anyone who disagrees with him is corrupt, and anyone who presumes to edit his words is a censor", and told The Washington Post, "it is absolutely not true that Glenn Greenwald was asked to remove all sections critical of Joe Biden from his article. He was asked to support his claims and innuendo about corrupt actions by Joe Biden with evidence."[43][44] In response to The Intercept, Greenwald published the emails that led to his resignation which show Greenwald being asked to make "significant revision", treat the "disinformation issue" with "greater complexity", and be skeptical of the materials allegedly leaked from Hunter Biden's laptop because "it remains a very strange story surrounded by many unanswered questions".[45]