Charlie Savage

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The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.

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Judge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration’s Memo on Boat Strikes

The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...

w/ Ben Weiser

nytimes.comJudge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration’s Memo on Boat StrikesThe judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.
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New: FBI in internal memo says it believes ShinyHunters may have stolen private data on all employees. Fears of longterm consequences of breach magnify as hackers threaten to leak everything online by end of Tuesday.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

nytimes.comEmbarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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1. Alan Moore is singular tho 2. Marvel also did some interesting stuff that involved first selling what would be a graphic novel as a set of serialized issues, but not of "normal" pulp comics sold in the drug store. I'm thinking of Nick Fury v. SHIELD.

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The DC Circuit has unsealed about 600 pages of litigation material from the Trump investigations at my request. They include a written 2-1 opinion and dissent (Millett, Wilkins, Katsas) rejecting Trump's attempt to block Mike Pence from testifying before a grand jury www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

nytimes.comNewly Public Documents Shed New Light on Trump Investigations (Gift Article)Records unsealed on Wednesday include a 2023 appeals court opinion rejecting Donald J. Trump’s attempt to block Mike Pence’s grand jury testimony.
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Blanche’s Political Activity Breaks an Ethical Norm Going Back to Watergate

The attorney general’s campaign politicking for Republicans adds to the degradation of post-Watergate values at the Justice Department.

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...

nytimes.comBlanche’s Political Activity Breaks an Ethical Norm Going Back to Watergate (Gift Article)The attorney general’s campaign politicking for Republicans adds to the degradation of post-Watergate values at the Justice Department.
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The claim "if X does not perjure himself there's no problem" describes a presumption-of-regularity world in which criminal referrals/DOJ investigations happen only in good faith. Fauci's lawyer presumably thinks that's not today's world. (I don't know what the limiting principle of this would be!)

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Seeing people confused about Fauci taking the Fifth even though he was pre-emptively pardoned by Biden. Pardons only cover past conduct; they don't immunize future lawbreaking. Fauci's claim is Trump II DOJ would gin up a perjury investigation into him based on anything he says today.