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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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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Gift link: How the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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How the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs (Gift Article)
A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Subpoena power? Not exactly. Acquittal means freedom? Nope. A few unusual things that came up last month in the longest running capital case at Guantánamo Bay. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Unusual Issues in Court at Guantánamo Stand Out as a Case Finally Heads to Trial
Prosecutors want remote testimony for witnesses unable or unwilling to travel to Guantánamo. The defense wants jurors to be told that, guilty or innocent, the defendant will not go free.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Breaking news: A military judge has thrown out yet another confession in the 9/11 case, ruled it was involuntary.
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Judge Throws Out Another Confession in Sept. 11 Case (Gift Article)
Prosecutors have long considered the defendants’ admissions during interrogations in 2007 to be their best evidence.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ms. Blackburn’s complaint was full of political grievances. But beyond the bluster is a serious question of how far the speech or debate clause extends. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Senator Marsha Blackburn Sues Over Jack Smith’s Subpoena During Trump Inquiry (Gift Article)
The lawsuit, brought by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, tests the reach of the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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
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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.
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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...
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Embarrassing 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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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here is a more detailed guide to the newly available files charliesavage.com/2026/09/dc-c...
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DC Circuit Unseals Trump Investigation Litigation - Charlie Savage
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 Donald 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
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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...
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Newly 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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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1/ @rgoodlaw.bsky.social & I are honored to announce that veteran, multi-award winning reporter @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social will be publishing Dispatches from Guantanamo with us at @justsecurity.org –regular updates as the capital trials in the military commissions get underway. #GTMODispatches
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Guantánamo Dispatch: The USS Cole Case Edges Toward Trial
Carol Rosenberg reports from Guantánamo Bay on the upcoming pre-trial hearing in the USS Cole bombing case.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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...
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Blanche’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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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I was asked to contribute to a @justsecurity.org / @rcls-nyu.bsky.social collection of reflections pegged to the 25th anniversary of 9/11 - where I was, how it shaped my professional life, and how that informs my work today in the current historical moment. www.justsecurity.org/156339/9-11-...
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9/11 Then and Now: How it Shapes Us 25 Years On
How the September 11 attacks, and the U.S. response that followed, changed the world and the way we approach the moment we are in today.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
There should be Odyssey showings with full IMAX visuals but lower volume for people who don’t want their ears to bleed /crankyoldmantake
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Breaking: In a huge decision in the 9/11 case, the military judge has suppressed the so-called "clean team" confession of the lead defendant known as KSM. This comes days after the same judge set a June 2028 trial date, which could now be in doubt if the prosecution decides to appeal that ruling.
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Judge Excludes Key Confession in Sept. 11 Case (Gift Article)
Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You’ve got the touch, you’ve got the power!
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
lol
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/b...
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U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists
A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I assume you are tagging me because of my thread about my journalistic interactions with Lindsey Graham. Which of those tweets involved a matter where there were no stakes, in your view?
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When we came out of Syria in 2022 and landed at a military base, Graham got call and his demeanor changed and he moved away from the group to urgently talk. He had been subpoenaed to testify about calling Georgia’s Secretary of State when Trump was trying to overturn his loss of the 2020 election.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
We talked less over time as detainee policy issues faded, but he invited me again in 2022 to go to Syria, this time to look at where ISIS wives and children were being detained. He thought it was a shameful disaster than countries were not taking them back. www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/u...
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ISIS Fighters’ Children Are Growing Up in a Desert Camp. What Will They Become? (Published 2022)
Leaving captured men, women and children in prisons and camps run by Kurds risks seeding a new global terrorism disaster, rights groups and the U.S. military warn.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Graham and I related to each other mainly through the dynamic of nerding about detainee policy, which we established before Trump. My impression was he thought he could work Trump thru flattery. In Manbij, he told me the town should name a square after Trump so he would not pull US troops out.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Part of that 2018 trip was not about detainees. We visited an Arab town the Kurds had liberated from ISIS but the Turks wanted to push the Kurds out of. Graham spoke with local leaders trying to rebuild society at a cafe. Later a suicide bomber blew up that cafe. www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/r...
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A Reporter’s Visit Last Summer to Restaurant in Syria Where Carnage Reigned (Published 2019)
“This is what stability looks like,” said a top general, wearing no body armor, before an upbeat lunch with local leaders.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Here is main article that came from the 2018 trip with Graham, Senator Jeanne Shaheen & several staff. The military flew us in & out of Syria from Baghdad - long hot dusty day, visiting several locations. We processed it together that night in a green-zone canteen. www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/w...
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As ISIS Fighters Fill Prisons in Syria, Their Home Nations Look Away (Published 2018)
On a rare tour of prisons for Islamic State suspects from nearly 50 countries, a Times reporter watched their jailers try to secure them humanely — but for how long?
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
But the dilemma was not simple. He noted that the world, despite condemning the US for Gitmo, was doing the same in Syria—outsourcing to Kurds indefinite detention of their citizens who joined ISIS bc of fear civilian prosecution couldn’t keep dangerous people secured www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/i...
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I’ve Been Covering the Detention of Terrorism Suspects for 15 Years. What Have We Learned? (Published 2018)
Our national security law expert in Washington made his first of many reporting trips to Guantánamo Bay in 2003. Earlier this month, he toured ISIS fighter prisons in Syria.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In my assessment, Graham started off as a pragmatic thinker (in a war you don’t torture captured enemies but you also don’t give them Miranda warnings/ lawyers before interrogating for intel) but hardened over the years into ideological dogma despite the lived experience that tribunals didn’t work.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In the Bush/Obama years, Graham aligned himself with Senator John McCain. He was a staunch opponent of torture but a strong supporter of handling terrorism cases using military detention and commissions rather than the civilian criminal justice system. charliesavage.com/2015/10/powe...
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Power Wars Document: Lindsey Graham’s grand bargain proposal over Guantanamo - Charlie Savage
This previously undisclosed document is a proposal Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, developed in 2009. It was a starting point for what became lengthy but unsuccessful negotiation...
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
RIP Senator Lindsey Graham. I spoke with him many times over the years, primarily re war-on-terror detainee policy issues like Guantanamo & military commissions. He twice invited me to join congressional fact-finding trips to the war zone in Syria to scrutinize Kurdish-run prisons for ISIS detainees
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The Trump administration issued subpoenas on Friday to several journalists for The New York Times, after the news outlet reported this week on security concerns involving President Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My plan is to rewrite “They Ride Us” this time by me
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cubs this year are fire and ice with no lukewarm water in between: two ten-game winning streaks, a ten-game losing streak, etc. These last two games are the ridiculous season in a nutshell:
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
From the chapter of my 2007 book TAKEOVER about the growing stacking the Supreme Court with former executive branch lawyers who came of age marinating in separation-of-powers disputes from a presidentialist perspective:
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Aren't the museum exhibits in Simi Valley controlled by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, not NARA?
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A pet peeve of mine is conflating NARA-run research libraries with the private-foundation-run hagiographic museums paid for by donors and allies that are often but not always colocated.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
River shifted
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
River shifted
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The moon and Venus tonight
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Jupiter and Venus
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I also am a lifetime m dash writer and am befuddled by what to do about their sudden “AI slop” connotations stigma. If everyone changes, too, would not AI writing gradually change with us and we would just be setting off on a new version of the euphemism treadmill?
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I object to bringing anti-Chicago Bears content into my feed.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Third option: A commuter tax in disguise.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Justice Department has served subpoenas on The Wall Street Journal and other media organizations seeking information about the Iran war. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Good morning from the Pentagon, where I have come to see a feed of Week 2 of the latest pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay. In a first, no reporters are on base for a hearing in that particular case. All members of the media left on Saturday, with some court staff.
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Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
PSA Fake evite email phishing is out of control right now. Don’t click without checking with the purported sender.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Joe Maddon: These are the 3 best leaders I managed in MLB www.nytimes.com/athletic/725... 2016 Cubs x2
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Joe Maddon: These are the 3 best leaders I managed in MLB
Joe Maddon managed for 17 seasons in MLB. He was a three-time Manager of the Year and won the 2016 World Series with the Cubs.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Why, @tumblr.com , would you change the URL of a blog without having forwarding from the old URL (gitmobooks.tumblr.com), which is what is linked in articles about this project and comes up in Google search results on Google but leads to this:
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