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Washington Correspondent, The New York Times. Author, “The Way of the Knife.” Adjunct Prof @DukeSanford

Washington, DC
Joined July 2010
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4 years
In last hour, I’ve become genuinely curious about why the Secretary of State has a blank map of the world ready to produce on a moment’s notice.
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“If it were possible to wave a magic wand and make all Americans freeze in place for 14 days while sitting six feet apart, epidemiologists say, the whole epidemic would sputter to a halt.”
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3 years
One of the mysteries of Trump's first six months was why the administration came out of the gate so hot for Saudi and UAE--with Trump traveling to Saudi Arabia and then going along with the Qatar blockade. The Tom Barrack indictment explains a lot.
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Sean Hannity claims he was defamed in three NYT columns. He demands apology and retraction. Here’s response from NYT lawyer @davidmccraw : “No”
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4 years
Just want to distill one point: According to Bolton, the president encouraged China to put people in concentration camps. But Bolton didn’t do anything about this, and put it in his book. And now he blames the impeachment inquiry for focusing only on Ukraine.
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“The odd thing about reporting on the coronavirus is that the nonexperts are supremely confident in their predictions, while epidemiologists keep telling me that they don’t really know much at all.”
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7 years
The president just tried to rally CIA workforce around the idea that media is the enemy. Let that sink in
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4 years
Plenty of bad stuff to hang on Suleimani without trying to tie him to 9/11. The Vice President of the United States needs to stop peddling this stuff. Bad echoes of pre-Iraq war.
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Mike Pence
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Assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
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4 years
That’s....not what imminent means
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6 years
This story answers one of the lingering mysteries: what set off the FBI’s Russia investigation? It wasn’t the Steele dossier
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3 years
There is doorstepping. And then there is boss-level doorstepping like this from @clarissaward
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Ivan Zhdanov
3 years
CNN опубликовал полностью свой вариант расследования и вот момент, где они пришли в гости к убийце Олегу Таякину
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4 years
The Secretary of State actually asked @NPRKelly to find Ukraine on a map. Wow, did he try to intimidate the wrong person.
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4 years
In a statement after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the president said we should all move on because the Saudis promised to buy a lot of American weapons
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Barbara Starr
4 years
"I'm not saying the military’s in love with me,the soldiers are.The top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t, because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy.
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4 years
Wait, I’d heard somewhere the unmasking “scandal” was worse than Watergate
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3 years
Let’s pack it in and declare this best tweet of 2020
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3 years
This story is 100% bonkers. Amazing reporting by @ktbenner
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4 years
The report was pretty striking @Susan_Hennessey . Am amazed there hasn’t been more attention to it. It literally undercuts everything Barr has been saying for a year
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“A confidential U.N. report obtained by The New York Times... reveals how Mr. Prince deployed a force of foreign mercenaries, armed with attack aircraft, gunboats and cyberwarfare capabilities, to eastern Libya.” @declanwalsh
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4 years
From internal New York Times call: all Coronavirus coverage will remain free and outside of paywall for the foreseeable future.
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3 years
The killings happened at a time the four men were working for Erik Prince, the brother of a member of President Trump’s cabinet
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Ben Jacobs
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Trump also pardoned all four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in the Nisour Square Massacre
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4 years
If any private company withheld this infomation about one of its top executives from its employees, there would be many many lawsuits
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Kaitlan Collins
4 years
No email was sent out informing NSC staff that their boss, Robert O'Brien, had tested positive for coronavirus. He abruptly left the office last Thursday. Some found out from press reports (!), @vmsalama and I are told.
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3 years
How do you stand behind the intelligence when the intelligence said it was ISIS fighters and not children?
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Lucas Tomlinson
3 years
BREAKING: Gen. McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, to announce no ISIS-K fighters killed in U.S. drone strike in Kabul Aug 29. 10 civilians killed, including 7 children in Toyota. No disciplinary action expected, officials say. US military stands by intel leading to strike.
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5 years
This might be this generation’s moon landing
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Janice Dean
5 years
This. Is. Awesome.
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4 years
Modly with the rare doubling down and then reverse backflip in a single news cycle
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Dan Lamothe
4 years
Acting @SECNAV just issued an apology to the Navy for his comments today.
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6 years
Been off Twitter most of day. Vanilla Ice wrote an anonymous NYT Op-Ed while quarantined at JFK because of deadly virus?
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6 years
So, lying to the Senate is a thing for Mueller
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3 years
So, @maggieNYT has the receipts
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7 years
This piece by @maggieNYT and @peterbakernyt reads like the final scene of "Reservoir Dogs."
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4 years
The Washington Officials Familiar with the Matter
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2 years
In 2014, Putin waited until the end of the Winter Olympics to invade Ukraine. Eight years later, he's just done the exact same thing
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3 years
Can you still wear a mask if you spot someone on the street you don’t want to talk to?
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3 years
I’m trying hard to contemplate a scenario where this conversation actually happened as described
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Mike Pompeo
3 years
When I was Director of the CIA, we valued individuals based on their talent and skill, not their race or sexuality. I’ll never forget what one female analyst said to me: “Thank you for valuing me for my work. I want my abilities and achievements to define me, not my sexuality.”
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5 years
Mueller Objected to Barr’s Description of Russia Investigation’s Findings
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4 years
It has rained all 110 days of this month
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4 years
It's as if Trump sees talking to Woodward as one of the cool perks of being president. Like walking around with the nuclear codes.
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Maggie Haberman
4 years
There is an epic amount of finger-pointing going on at the White House right now about who's to blame for a group of grown adults in serious positions in government - and in one case the president - talking to Woodward.
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6 years
So honored to work with this team that pulled this story together on Thanksgiving @nytmike @mattapuzzo @maggieNYT
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4 years
William Barr said that the Flynn calls contained “nothing inconsistent” with Obama administration policy. Actually, they showed that Flynn seemed to view the Kremlin as more of an ally than the Obama White House
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6 years
When pictures put the lie to the idea this was a "rogue" operation
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Mark Mazzetti
4 years
Important point here for those alleging vast conspiracy against Flynn. When you are asking for someone to be unmasked it’s because....you don’t know who the person is.
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Julian E. Barnes
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April Falcon Doss, a former lawyer with the National Security Agency: “When the officials are sending requests in, by definition they don’t know whose identity is going to be unmasked.”
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7 years
The idea that CIA is apolitical has long been a bit of a myth. But a POTUS having a campaign rally there is pretty shocking
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4 years
The last person who should be giving lectures about government truth telling. Or, about whom journalists should or shouldn’t believe
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Sean Spicer
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Reminder to all of the journalists that took China at face value when they claimed they had no more cases
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3 years
A document released today provides strongest evidence to date that Russian spies had penetrated the inner workings of the Trump campaign in 2016. W/⁦ @nytmike
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4 years
Extraordinary times when the DC Mayor lifts a pandemic stay at home order on a Friday and has to impose a curfew for rioting on Monday
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5 years
Just Posted: Mueller Played by the Rules. Trump Made New Ones. w/ @ktbenner
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3 years
The Pentagon’s timetable about Jan 6 riots has always been a mess. Today’s hearing gives even more evidence of that.
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2 years
After a four year assault on the keepers of America’s secrets, perhaps the least surprising thing Donald Trump did during his final days in office was ship boxes of sensitive material from the White House to his oceanside palace in Florida.
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6 years
The World Cup semifinals, sponsored by August 1914
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6 years
No discussion of adoptions
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4 years
She described an onslaught of patients who were dying before they could even be taken out of ambulances. “She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” said her father. "She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.”
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6 years
I’m puzzled about why @maggieNYT hasn’t broken a big story in the last 27 minutes
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4 years
“A British former spy recruited by Erik Prince, the security contractor close to the Trump administration, played a central role in a secretive effort to hire dozens of operatives for the conservative group Project Veritas.” W/⁦ @adamgoldmanNYT
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4 years
It was “The YouTube” until Justin Timberlake advised them to make it just “YouTube”
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5 years
The Saudi team was so busy carrying out a campaign of rendition and torture, they asked MBS for a bonus for Eid, the annual holiday commemorating the end of Ramadan
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7 years
The meeting in June at Trump Tower with Don Jr, Kushner and Manafort was arranged after a promise of Russian info on Hillary Clinton
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3 years
“That’s how you beat dangerous disease. You don’t beat them by offering Lotto scratch-off cards. We need to get over the current ‘pretty please?’ phase of this fight. Vaccination mandates change everything.”
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Mark Mazzetti
5 years
It’s diplomatic, but Australian ambassador takes a shot at Lindsey Graham for pushing a conspiracy theory
@JoeHockey
Joe Hockey
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Australia’s response to Senator Lindsey Graham
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NEW: "Mr. Mueller and Mr. Barr, once close friends, have been like two students standing shoulder to shoulder at a blackboard: what one has diligently written down, the other has tried to steadily erase."
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4 years
“A placard that proclaims “God Hates Trump” has “Trump” blotted out so that it reads “God Hates.” That, sort of changes the meaning.
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4 years
A blockbuster from ⁦ @DraperRobert ⁩. Inside a battle over an intelligence assessment on Russian election sabotage.
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Last May, the NYT reported on how the CIA’s network in China had been systematically dismantled. Man at center of mole hunt has been arrested.
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4 years
That Spider-Man pointing gif thing
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Kaitlan Collins
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“That would be a question more for the White House,” Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, says on Fox News when asked if Joe Biden will receive access to the presidential daily brief.
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3 years
Lots and lots of Rumsfeld takes. Will just say this: he had a hugely important job in the years after 9/11, and he was a complete failure at it
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7 years
NEWS:Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin
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2 years
“It’s a tale as old as time: Military scientist meets prostitute. Scientist falls in love with prostitute. Scientist gets prostitute hired as an Air Force Research Laboratory contractor. A federal investigation ensues.”
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"Even as late as 1 p.m. on Jan. 6, as a pro-Trump mob began to breach the outer barricades...an agent in the F.B.I.’s domestic terrorism unit told a Justice Department official that the F.B.I. still had no information about any specific threat."
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5 years
Seems pretty important for DOJ to release the earlier Mueller letter, on March 25.
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4 years
Not bad. But the other day I dunked over my 5 year old using an 8 foot rim.
@NewYorker
The New Yorker
4 years
To escape the bubonic plague, Isaac Newton left London for the near total solitude of his family farm, where he invented calculus, created the science of motion, unravelled gravity, and more. Or so the story goes.
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There’s so much in Lennon’s final interview. This passage about how fans don’t let artists evolve is amazing—he’s talking about a new kid named Springsteen 1/
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The publisher of the NYT reveals that, two years ago, the American government seemed content to let Cairo reporter @declanwalsh be arrested in Egypt. So paper turned to Irish diplomats to get him to safety
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4 years
This is just such fantastic work by ⁦ @washingtonpost
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1 year
NEW: Days after the White House in 2021 blacklisted NSO, the notorious Israeli hacking firm, a secret contract was signed for a hacking tool. The contract states that the USG is the user. A thread
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NEW:John F. Kelly wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been “ordered” to give Mr. Kushner the top-secret clearance. @maggieNYT @nytmike @adamgoldmanNYT @anniekarni
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