by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 28, 2013 | Monitor
FORT MEADE, Md. — Wearing his Army dress uniform, a composed, intense and articulate Pfc. Bradley Manning took “full responsibility” Thursday for providing the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks with a trove of classified and sensitive military,...
by Jakob Schiller | Nov 18, 2012 | Monitor
In 2008 photographer Jonathan Saruk was embedded with U.S. forces but left to find stories that other journalists were not covering — stories that gave a more complete picture of life in Kabul.
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 1, 2012 | Monitor
Joseph Leader, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Vice President and Chief Maintenance Officer, shines a flashlight on standing water inside the South Ferry 1 train station in New York, NY, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Photo: Craig...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 17, 2012 | Monitor
Would-be Federal Reserve bomber Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, arrested today in Manhattan. Photo: ABC7, via Twitter He tried to detonate the Federal Reserve in lower Manhattan, only his bomb was a dud. He asked a contact over Facebook — who was a secret...
by Noah Shachtman | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor
A car burns after clashes in Benghazi. Photo: AP/Mohammad Hannon There’s fresh evidence that security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was something less than first class. Documents recovered from the grounds of the American mission show that the guards there...