Ryan Devereaux is a journalist for The Intercept, which was co-founded by Glenn Greenwald and Laura Oytros of Edward Snowden fame, together with Jeremy Scahill.

Thanks for taking the time to join us, Ryan.

Thanks so much for having me.

The Intercept is a groundbreaking publication found the last year, which, quote, produces

fearless adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues.

I think that is precisely what the world needs today because of governments and media disinformation.

So first of all, can you tell us, what about the Intercept and

its first year and a half of existence? I've read it got off to a rough start. How are things

going in your opinion? I think things are going really well. It's definitely ups and down.

There's been ups and downs, but I think that's kind of natural with any sort of new news organization.

You know, I'd be proud of a, you know, range of stories that we've done in the sort of short

time that we've been around, managed to break a number of new Snowden stories.

We published the watch listing guidance that the U.S. government uses for terrorism watch listing, which civil liberties attorneys have been seeking for years, you know, stories that I think have been in the public interest.

I was able to do some reporting from Ferguson after Michael Brown was killed, some reporting New Mexico on I.O.C. Napa and the 43 students that disappeared.

My colleagues here have done a lot of great criminal justice coverage, wrongful convictions,

suspicious death penalty cases here in the U.S.

So I think we're doing well.

I mean, a long way to go still, but I think we're, you know, we're making some serious

strides.

And some of the topics you mentioned, you know, some of the stuff is kind of scary.

Everything from watch lists, you know, to think that a Democratic Republic such as the

U.S. is now compiling watch lists.

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