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New York Times national security and legal reporter; MSNBC contributor; author of the books "Power Wars" and "Takeover"

Joined September 2008

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    "Power Wars" paperback edition has been printed. Revised, updated, and in bookstores on 6/27

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  2. SNL writers room should have Susan Page ineffectively trying to alert Pence that he's got a bug on his head as he ignores and talks over her.

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  3. There's a fly on Mike Pence's head!

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  4. Well, I guess the "display dominance" strategy tonight, rather than Trump's incessant interruptions of Biden, is Pence talking on and on and on after his time period is up, steamrolling Susan Page's "thank you thank you thank you your times is up mr vice president thank you"

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  5. Pence and Harris both run away from a question about whether they have talked with Trump/Biden about taking over for a disabled president ... like the plague

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  6. It's so weird that Pence let Harris talk uninterrupted for two minutes, and now Harris is letting Pence talk uninterrupted for two minutes. What is this, Canada?

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  7. Oct 7

    Letter from McCabe's lawyer complaining that someone added a (wrong) date to his notes, as referenced in the earlier-posted DOJ explanation, has now been added to the Flynn docket.

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  8. Oct 7

    Just posted: I reviewed 's new memoir, "Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad."

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  9. Oct 7

    DOJ explained in filing today. In short, DOJ added the dates inadvertently. No explanation for why the wrong date on the White House meeting (which as has noted matters bc false date supported Trump accusation that Biden came up w/ Logan Act).

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  10. Oct 7

    The DOJ presser on the ISIS Beatles case, which Trump misled his followers into thinking would be about "Obamagate," is happening now at . Here is our story on the newly unsealed court documents, including some horrific new details.

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  11. Oct 7

    The federal prosecution of two Britons involved in the kidnapping and torture of American hostages comes more than two years after they were captured in Syria. w/

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  12. Oct 7

    What are the chances the still-credulous Trump fans who saw his retweet of this, when they learn that the press conference is instead about the ISIS Beatles, will say to themselves, "why was he trying to fool me about this?"

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    Oct 6

    This was an all-time confusing headline for me

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  14. Oct 7

    It is October 7 — Happy birthday to , Vladimir Putin, and me. Four years ago today, the US govt accused Russia of hacking Democrats to torque the 2016 election, the WP published the Access Hollywood tape, and WikiLeaks began publishing John Podesta’s stolen emails.

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    Oct 6

    BREAKING -- "We need to take away children." A damning internal investigation concludes that top Justice Dept. officials were "a driving force" behind 's family separation policy. My new report, with

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    Oct 6
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    Oct 6

    By far the most in-depth review of this book I've seen so far.

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  18. Oct 6

    Here is the main story and I wrote about Trump's replacement "PSP" rules for raids and airstrikes away from hot battlefields

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  19. Oct 6

    NYT & ACLU, in separate/parallel FOIA lawsuits seeking disclosure of the relaxed policy for counterterrorism drone strikes and commando raids outside war zones that Trump approved in October 2017, replacing Obama's 2013 PPG, win an initial court victory.

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    Fall Books is out—featuring on Claudia Rankine, on Richard Hofstadter, on Yaa Gyasi, on Nicholson Baker, on oligarchy, on newspapers, and Randall Kennedy on SCOTUS's war on equality

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  21. Oct 6

    I reviewed Nicholson Baker’s new and very unusual nonfiction book “Baseless,” about bioweapons, the Korean War, and the shortcomings of the Freedom of Information Act.

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