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A Thought on Dean Baquet's Comments to Jack
This morning, Jack published an interview he conducted yesterday with New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet about the paper's decision the other day to publish the names of three covert CIA officers. -
Interview With Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of New York Times, on Publication Decisions About Intelligence Secrets, and More
On April 25, two days after President Obama announced that a U.S. drone strike accidentally killed two innocent hostages, Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo published a story in the New York Times about congr... -
DNI General Counsel Robert Litt: "The New York Times Disgraced Itself"
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an article on congressional support for the C.I.A.'s drone program. In describing the program's leadership, the Times saw fit to reveal the identity of thre... -
"The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television," by Tricia Jenkins
Published by University of Texas Press (2013) Reviewed by Julius Taranto -
In Case You Needed Another Reason to Look Askance at WikiLeaks
Here is one. The organization today posted online what it describes as "an analysis and search system for The Sony Archives: 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and 173,132 emails, t... -
"A Necessary, If Still Unpalatable, Potential Ally in Combating the Islamic State"
Remember these words the next time the New York Times runs a pious editorial decrying---with a spurious combination of selective facts and distorted law---some morally complicated aspect of U.S. -
No Need to Prosecute Bowe Bergdahl?
I normally make a point of not arguing with New York Times editorials, contenting myself with my role as their unofficial fact-checker on national security legal matters. (Don't thank me.) I find myself... -
The Washington Post Fingers the Person Behind the Snowden Disclosures!
In what is surely a typographical error, the Washington Post has named NSA General Counsel Raj De as the man behind the Snowden disclosures: De’s last day was Friday, and he plans to start at Mayer Brown... -
Did the New York Times Editorial Page Accuse General Petraeus of a Crime Spree?
I'm not sure, but I think so. From today's editorial, entitled, "Gen. Petraeus's Light Punishment": Mr. -
The Iran Letter and the Logan Act
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More on the Senate’s Role in the Impending Iran Deal
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has responded here to the letter from the 47 Republican Senators, on which I commented yesterday. Just as the Senators’ letter purported to school Iran on U.S. consti... -
The Error in the Senators’ Letter to the Leaders of Iran
Josh Rogin reports that a “group of 47 Republican senators has written an open letter to Iran's leaders warning them that any nuclear deal they sign with President Barack Obama's administration won’t las...
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