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PBC News & Comment: New Greenwald Site Debuts as Obama Targets Another American

Omidyar-backed "First Look" debuts e-zine "The Intercept" detailing NSA role in Obama's targeted assassination scheme, from Snowden docs...Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and trigger $15 contribution to the PBC Podcast!

Greenwald, Poitras and Scahill launch new site with major story about NSA role in targeted killings

--February 11 is the Day We Fight Back against the surveillance state

--Guardian reports that Obama is planning to assassinate another American, an unnamed resident of an unnamed country accused of working with al Qaeda

--Britain's Independent says GCHQ uses all the same techniques of hackers to create "paranoia"

--NSA says it is only able to grab about a third of phone records from millions of Americans suspected of no crime

--NY Times reports that Snowden used web crawler to automate his grab of NSA files

--PBC Podcast pleased to see many new subscribers in Europe, apparently drawn to our NSA coverage

--hear an excerpt from our in-depth interview with Mel Goodman, former CIA analyst who delivers blistering critique of the new memoir Duty by his former CIA colleague and boss, Robert Gates

--NATO 3 found innocent of terrorism charges, but convicted on lesser charges despite cops acting as provacateurs

--State Dept. contractor Kim takes guilty plea for leaking

--Anonymous hacker convicted for denial of service attack on Koch Brothers' toilet paper website

--80,000 marched to protest right wing agenda in North Carolina