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National security and intelligence reporter for NBC News; formerly Foreign Policy magazine, Agence France-Presse, The Guardian, Reuters

Washington DC
Joined December 2008
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A trove of emails shows that Deloitte Cyprus helped firms beneficially owned by Roman Abramovich attempt to skirt tax and disclosure obligations by retroactively transferring assets to British Virgin Islands companies using backdated paperwork. buff.ly/9xOIbeC
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Retired Adm. McRaven, who oversaw the Bin Laden raid, on the Trump admin's plan to publicly executive Nidal Hasan: "shameless and ignoble"
In planning to publicly execute Nidal Hasan, the Trump administration “continues to undermine our national values,” and gives credence to those who say the U.S. has lost its way, William H. McRaven argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Today marks 20 years since Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow. She recognized Putin's true nature earlier than most—and the regime could never erase the truth she died to tell.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.” w/@DanaMattioli @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ wsj.com/politics/policy/guil…
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🇩🇪 Germany's former foreign spy chief has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, accused of seeking to pass sensitive information to overseas intelligence services, prosecutors said. ➡️ u.afp.com/S998
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Dan De Luce retweeted
Re-upping our reporting from over the weekend: Current and former officials tell us the FBI hack stemmed from incompetent cyber security at the bureau. It’s being called one of the worst counterintelligence disasters in recent memory. With @CarolLeonnig ms.now/news/fbi-hack-shinyhu…
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Today one Russian paper claims “Russia’s military has been given political blank cheque to carry out full demilitarisation & deindustrialisation of Ukraine.” But nothing in the papers from Irkutsk, where there have been reports of a potentially “dangerous infection.” #ReadingRussia
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The 52-day conflict, dubbed Operation Rough Rider, foreshadowed some of the difficulties Trump now faces in the war with Iran: a weaker adversary able to use inexpensive drones and antiship missiles to expose the limits of U.S. air and sea power and threaten the global economy,
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale. nytimes.com/2026/09/27/us/po…
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