Sam Biddle

1 week ago | theintercept.com | Sam Biddle

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement just signed a contract worth $73 million with a firm whose executives are accused of taking part in a scheme to manufacture evidence against a co-worker during their time working at the Department of Homeland Security.

3 weeks ago | theintercept.com | Sam Biddle

Five years after Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian assured employees that the company was “not working on any projects associated with immigration enforcement at the southern border,” federal contract documents reviewed by The Intercept show that the tech giant is at the center of project to upgrade the so-called virtual wall. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is planning to modernize older video surveillance towers in Arizona that provide the agency an unblinking view of the border.

1 month ago | theintercept.com | Sam Biddle

One week after Hamas’s October 7 attack, thousands rallied outside the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles to protest the country’s retaliatory assault on Gaza.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Sam Biddle

NowHamas Must Be Fully Defeated, or Gaza Will Become a Terror-State Like LebanonRight now, Hamas’ primary goal is to secure a ceasefire in order to survive the war, rebuild its terror army, and cement its political control of the …NowThe world must not accept the ‘new normal’ in PalestineAs violence escalates in Gaza and the West Bank, the international community is obliged to act to stop it.

1 month ago | theintercept.com | Sam Biddle

The Trump administration is planning to sell a major IRS computing center crucial to processing the tax returns of millions of Americans — just in time for tax season. The IRS Enterprise Computing Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia, is included on a list of over 400 “empty and underutilized” federal properties marked for liquidation. It is one of two agency data facilities that make possible the collection of federal taxes in the United States.