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New York Times national security & legal reporter • Author of "Takeover" & "Power Wars" • I hope Twitter lives but Mastodon: charlie_savage@masto.ai
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Former Taliban fighters talk about adjusting to their post-war lives as bureaucrats working 8-4 in the big city.
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I talked to last night about Bill Barr's comments to the LA Times about the NYT's article on the Durham inquiry - including Barr's confirmation of our reporting that Durham secretly opened a criminal investigation involving Trump
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"It does look like people who have subpoena power and more authority than mere reporters are interested in scrutinizing this further" - on lawmakers calling for an inquiry into Durham's review of Russia probe w/
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My colleague and I wrote last week about Biden administration national security legal and policy officials wrestling with whether to do so - complicated by the Biden White House's desire to take no part in making such a decision.
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Former Bush administration solicitor general Ted Olson, whose wife was killed on 9/11, says military commissions don't work and the government should give up on death penalty and strike plea deals with KSM and the other 9/11 defendants to end the case.
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Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, has arrived at DC District Court, according to the pool. He was taken up to the third floor where the grand jury meets.
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the endless cycles of scrutiny over events related to the 2016 presidential election
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The Bill Barr/John Durham fog of disinformation.
You can listen to my whole conversation with the NYT's here:
podcasts.apple.com/bg/podcast/cha
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Two House Dems who are former prosecutors have written to DOJ's inspector general requesting he investigate the things & I reported in our story on the Durham inquiry. Durbin says Senate Judiciary Cmte will also look into it.
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Tenth email. I hope you all enjoyed this scintillating exchange. /12
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Eighth and ninth emails /11
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Seventh email /10
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Sixth email (sent and received simultaneously with my last one)/9
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Fifth email (sent and received simultaneously with his next one)/8
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Fourth email /7
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From time to time, journalists have to re-learn that it is a mistake to engage with, rather than ignore, bad-faith actors; they use it for more fodder. Jenkins says he will write about our exchange. Rather than let him misrepresent things, I’m going to post its entirety here./3
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Besides the unnecessary personal attacks, Jenkins claimed I had written something last August that I did not remember writing and could not find in the archives. So I wrote to him requesting a correction./2
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The Wall Street Journal opinion section published a meandering column by Holman Jenkins today riffing off last week's article on the Durham investigation that I wrote with and . It was weirdly filled with ad hominem attacks on me (just me) by name. /1
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Bob Bauer issues another statement saying the FBI search of Biden's beach house is complete and found no docs with classified markings, but agents did take "some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as vice president" for further review.
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The FBI is searching Joe Biden's Rehoboth Beach house for documents today, according to a statement from his lawyer Bob Bauer.
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to tie up the loose ends on the 5.1 challenge made by the two reporters tagged above, Chancellor McCormick makes a ruling this afternoon based on her previous transcript ruling and the affidavit submitted, and finds the remaining minor redactions justified under Rule 5.1
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Meanwhile in Somalia
posted this Jan 25 drone strike disclosure on its website yesterday but didn't email it out or put it on Twitter for some reason
h/t for spotting it
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I have a question about Avatar II. If two air breathers capable of holding their breaths for extended periods are fighting underwater, how can one strangle the other abruptly unconscious? What difference does it make to be choked under those circumstances?
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Four of the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks have contracted Covid as the coronavirus continued to spread through a maximum-security prison for former C.I.A. detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
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"We basically set out to investigate the investigation of the investigation... We found a lot of new things... Unbeknownst to everyone, Durham ended up opening a criminal investigation into Trump or into Trump-related issues" - w/
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Here is a gift article link so you can read this article even if you are not a subscriber and have already hit the paywall.
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There is much more. I invite you to read it.
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3. The resignation of his No. 2, Nora Dannehy, came after multiple disputes over prosecutorial ethics, culminating with a blow-up over a draft interim report ahead of the 2020 election, that never got issued. Another prosecutor quit the team in protest of the Sussmann indictment.
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2. Durham went after the private emails of a George Soros aide based on a claim in a dubious Russian intel memo. A judge twice rejected his request for an order for info about them, so he turned to grand jury powers to get them, leading to internal dissent on his team.
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Among the highlights:
1.Durham opened a criminal investigation into possible financial crimes involving Trump, based on a tip from Italian officials. While it had nothing to do w/ the Russia inquiry, Barr decided Durham should keep control of it. He never brought charges.
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For months, & I have been scrutinizing the Durham investigation into the Russia investigation. It just went online.
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A plea deal proposed last year by prosecutors in the 9/11 case is presenting a dilemma for senior national security lawyers in the Biden administration: The White House is avoiding the issue. So are they the proper people to bless it? w
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The attempt to hold a 9/11 trial before the Gitmo military tribunals is not working. But GOP lawmakers wouldn't let Bill Barr move it to civilian court. Now Biden officials are weighing a plea deal to avert the need for a trial--giving up on executing KSM.
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Also: Using military tribunals after 9/11 was Bill Barr's brainchild -- he called the Bush WH and suggested it. In 2019-20, as AG, Barr recognized the system was "a hopeless mess" & made a quiet push to bring the 9/11 case to civilian court, but top GOP lawmakers quashed it.
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EXCLUSIVE: Officials are weighing a plea deal to end the wheels-spinning effort to prosecute 5 accused conspirators in 9/11 before the military tribunal system at Guantanamo. Biden WH is trying to avoid playing any role. W/
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