Charlie Savage
@charliesavage.bsky.social
The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
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.
U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/b...
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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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
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...
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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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:
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:
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?
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2mo agoLol. Hey AI checkers, you're not taking my freaking —'s away. Before AI existed I had set up keyboard combinations to make them, because that's how I write. So this is why they say it's 100% AI. Because 6 emdashes, 1 triad, and 1 ai phrase ("relentless"). Fucking hell.
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...
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.
Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
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PSA Fake evite email phishing is out of control right now. Don’t click without checking with the purported sender.
Joe Maddon: These are the 3 best leaders I managed in MLB www.nytimes.com/athletic/725... 2016 Cubs x2
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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Years ago I started a @tumblr.com project of books from the Guantanamo detainee library, which @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social and @jasonleopold.bsky.social, among others, helped fill out. I thought Tumblr had deleted it, but it still exists with a changed URL gitmobooks-blog.tumblr.com
Guantánamo prison library books for detainees
A photo collection Twitter @charlie_savage NYT Sunday Book Review article: http://goo.gl/IVc4E
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Congress Passes Another Short-Term Extension of Expiring Surveillance Law Senator Ron Wyden secured an agreement to seek the declassification of a recent intelligence court ruling about the FISA Section 702 program. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...
Congress Passes Another Short-Term Extension of Expiring Surveillance Law
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House GOP leadership's new stab at FISA 702. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee... On 1st scan: 3 year extension. Adds ODNI review of FBI queries for US person info; criminalizes bad ones; & makes it so only FBI lawyers (not supervisors) can approve them. Seems like a tough sell to Freedom Caucus types.
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U.S. Settles Carter Page Wiretap Lawsuit for $1.25 Million www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
U.S. Settles Carter Page Wiretap Lawsuit for $1.25 Million
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U.S. Abruptly Rescinds Subpoenas It Had Just Issued in John Brennan Inquiry www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...
U.S. Abruptly Rescinds Subpoenas It Had Just Issued in John Brennan Inquiry
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U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes A former Trump campaign lawyer, Joe diGenova, is said to be planning to split time between Miami and Fort Pierce, where a grand jury overseen by a Trump-favored judge sits. w/ Alan Feuer www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes
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The career prosecutor in Miami who the Trump admin had in charge of its John Brennan/"grand conspiracy" effort to try to prosecute Trump's perceived foes, Maria Medetis Long, has been removed. Joe diGenova takes over on Monday. w/ Alan Feuer & @glennthrush.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
Prosecutor Withdraws From Trump Team’s Investigation of Ex-C.I.A. Chief
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House Votes to Extend Expiring Law on Warrantless Surveillance for 10 Days www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
House Votes to Extend Expiring Law on Warrantless Surveillance for 10 Days
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DOJ Appealing Surveillance Court Ruling Amid Congressional Impasse The court had barred national security agencies from using certain tools to process Americans’ data gathered under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires on Monday. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
Justice Dept. Appealing Surveillance Court Ruling Amid Congressional Impasse
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Trump says he’s willing to ‘risk’ giving up rights as he pushes to extend a surveillance law. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
Trump says he’s willing to ‘risk’ giving up rights as he pushes to extend a surveillance law.
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On Journalism and American Democracy (my short speech at the George Polk Awards last week) charliesavage.com/2026/04/on-j...
On Journalism and American Democracy - Charlie Savage
Here are some brief remarks I delivered about journalism and American democracy at the 2025 George Polk Awards ceremony.
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Updated with the CIA's declassified assertions today that info gathered via 702 helped thwart a planned terrorist attack on a 2024 Taylor Swift concert in Austria and several other things, now with @julianbarnes.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
U.S. Says Wiretap Program Thwarted Attack on 2024 Taylor Swift Concert
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Charlie Savage@charliesavage.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe FISA Court recertified the 702 surveillance program so it can keep operating into 2027 even if Congress lets the statute lapse this month. The court objected to CIA/FBI/NSA filtering systems that effectively queried for Americans' info outside the usual rules. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
Updated with the CIA's declassified assertions today that info gathered via 702 helped thwart a planned terrorist attack on a 2024 Taylor Swift concert in Austria and several other things, now with @julianbarnes.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
U.S. Says Wiretap Program Thwarted Attack on 2024 Taylor Swift Concert
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Charlie Savage@charliesavage.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe FISA Court recertified the 702 surveillance program so it can keep operating into 2027 even if Congress lets the statute lapse this month. The court objected to CIA/FBI/NSA filtering systems that effectively queried for Americans' info outside the usual rules. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
With the NYT, I have filed a new FOIA lawsuit seeking a less redacted version of the once-classified Durham report appendix & related materials. charliesavage.com/2026/04/new-...
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The FISA Court recertified the 702 surveillance program so it can keep operating into 2027 even if Congress lets the statute lapse this month. The court objected to CIA/FBI/NSA filtering systems that effectively queried for Americans' info outside the usual rules. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
Intelligence Court Renews Surveillance Program Whose Law May Soon Lapse
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Trump’s Iran Threats Look Like Self-Incrimination for Potential War Crimes President Trump, in vowing to systematically destroy civilian infrastructure and annihilate Iran’s entire civilization, appears to be creating evidence about his intentions. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
Trump’s Iran Threats Look Like Self-Incrimination for Potential War Crimes
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