But it uses ajax.googleapis.com. And since it's reporting on the NSA, it's worth being that extra bit paranoid.
Everybody's (rightfully) complaining about mass surveillance and what do apparently all web devs do (the people who actually understand tech and know what all this means)? They include endless scripts and background requests (which of course track everybody) to CDNs and whatnot in every single website, instead of simply hosting their stuff themselves and using http://piwik.org/ to get their user stats.
It's really, really stupid.
I would link but search is unusably broken on mobile.
No HSTS.
Strange redirect to https://firstlook.org/theintercept/ instead of just hosting at theintercept.org.