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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has unsealed about 600 pages of material from the pre-indictment phase of the criminal investigations into President Trump. (Related New York Times article.) This tranche is the latest phase of my effort to obtain for the public and historical record court records that were […]

Ryan Goodman of Just Security asked me to contribute to a project they were doing with NYU’s Reiss Center on Law and Security: a collection of short personal and analytically grounded reflections by each invited contributor on “where they were on 9/11; how it shaped their professional path; and how that experience continues to inform […]

Here are some brief remarks I delivered about the current state of journalism and American democracy at the 2025 George Polk Awards ceremony. The New York Times asked me to represent the staff in accepting the 2025 Polk Award for National Reporting. The committee described the winning package like this: “The National Reporting award goes […]

With help from NYT newsroom lawyers Al-Amyn Sumar and David McCraw, I have today filed a new Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking a less-redacted version of the (once) classifed appendix to the 2023 report by former Special Counsel John Durham, as well as disclosure of related material. Declassified and released last summer, the appendix […]

I have been continuing my efforts to get court records unsealed from the behind-the-scenes subpoena battles in the Trump Jan. 6 and classified documents investigations. (See this post from last September for the previous round.) It’s not clear if there will always be daily news article fodder in such materials since we already know the […]

With help from a pseudonymous reader who proposed an experiment, Grok cleaned up most of its politicized hallucinations about me. A few days ago, I wrote a blog post about fabricated claims Grok had invented in an entry about me for Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s AI-written “de-woke” version of Wikipedia. The entry’s biographical materials were accurate, […]

An article about me on Grokipedia is full of disinformation in which the LLM strained to fulfill its programming mandate to present a conservative viewpoint. [See this Feb. 1, 2026 post for an update.] “Grokipedia,” Elon Musk’s AI-written alternative to Wikipedia that is touted as de-wokified information, recently came to my attention, so I (naturally) […]

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 […]