During World War I, the Committee on Public Information—a short-lived agency Smithsonian Magazine would describe in retrospect as "Woodrow Wilson's propaganda machine"—ran an advertisement titled ...

In May 2017, amid allegations of foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election, a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) leaked a classified document to the press. The document ...

Reality Winner served the longest prison sentence ever imposed on a government leaker. Winner was a 25-year-old military veteran and translator for the NSA when she saw a document that, during a time ...

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