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With The New York Times, I have filed a new Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the government. I am seeking the full aerial surveillance videos from three of President Trump’s boat strikes – the first one, and the two for which there were announced survivors (at least initially). My thanks to David McCraw, the […]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney died last week. The morning his passing was announced, I wrote a piece for The New York Times about how Cheney’s efforts to expand presidential power paved the way for Donald Trump’s imperial presidency, even though the two men became political adversaries. My first book, Takeover, was about the Bush-Cheney […]

Yesterday, Judge James E. Boasberg, the chief judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, made public some previously secret material about attorney-client privilege fights in the grand jury investigations that led to President Trump’s indictment for trying to overturn the 2020 election and for retaining classified documents. I wrote about it […]

With The New York Times, I have filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against the Justice Department seeking disclosure of the letters Attorney General Pam Bondi sent to Apple and Google assuring them that they would not be prosecuted for violating the law against providing support to […]

I have formally asked Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the Federal District Court in Washington, to unseal dockets, filings and judicial opinions related to fights over attorney-client privilege and attorney work product privilege during the investigations that led to Trump’s indictments in the election case and the classified documents case. My request has […]

[cross-posted from the Facebook group True Fort Wayne History, from January 2024] On the portage and “Glorious Gate”– I’d like to pull something out of a friendly conversation I had with Steve Oberlin deep in the comments under his post about the watershed, because maybe it will be interesting to a wider audience. It is […]

[Cross posted from the “True Fort Wayne History” Facebook group] On Swinney Park and whether it was the ritual site for Miami tribe “cannibalistic orgies” or was the “old torture ground” — [ADDED for TLDRers: My tentative conclusion is that this local lore appears to be a myth which traces back to a speech delivered […]

Just after midnight this morning, the New York Times and I filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act seeking disclosure of the volume of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report about the Trump classified documents case. Here is the complaint.

Like many people, I have found zombie Twitter — Elon Musk’s X — to be increasingly unusable for the purposes that originally attracted me to it. Among many other degradations of the former Twitter experience, its algorithmic suppression of posts with news links significantly impedes my ability as a journalist to get a broader audience […]

Back in December 2020, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board completed a report on the National Security Agency’s XKEYSCORE system, whose existence had come to light as part of the Snowden leaks. XKEYSCORE is a software program that N.S.A. analysts use to query the vast repository of stuff that the agency has sucked up, […]