Charlie Savage
The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
- Investigation Finds Credit Suisse Had Wider Nazi Ties Than Previously Known www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
- U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s Home The Justice Dept. did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
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- With help from a pseudonymous reader who proposed an experiment, Grokipedia cleaned up most of its politicized hallucinations about me. charliesavage.com/2026/02/fixi...
- ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene. w/ @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
- My takeaway is that Grokipedia may be useful for nonpoliticized topics — its material on my bio is more detailed than Wikipedia — but is factually unreliable when its mandate to say some conservative stuff kicks in. It strains to invent fake things if there's nothing real to say.
- Checked my entry on Grokipedia (Elon's AI-written antiwoke Wikipedia). Bio accurate, but the LLM's conservative viewpoint mandate led it to invent fake articles & twist 2 incidents where I corrected right-wing outlets into stories where they instead criticized me. charliesavage.com/2026/01/grok...
- Checked my entry on Grokipedia (Elon's AI-written antiwoke Wikipedia). Bio accurate, but the LLM's conservative viewpoint mandate led it to invent fake articles & twist 2 incidents where I corrected right-wing outlets into stories where they instead criticized me. charliesavage.com/2026/01/grok...
- Reposted by Charlie SavageGood morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay. The Bali bombing case is in a closed hearing to discuss a motion by the defense team to get access to secret information. No public, no defendant. www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/u...
- Trinidadian Families File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Boat Strike by U.S. Military The case tests the Trump administration’s argument that its extrajudicial killings of people suspected of smuggling drugs at sea have been lawful. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
- Killings in Minneapolis Invert Usual Dynamic Over Policing the Police It is far rarer and more difficult for state authorities to try to investigate federal law enforcement officials than the other way around. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
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- Trump’s massive and myriad power grabs, visualized and explained www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Leadership Dispute Said to Spur Abrupt Exit at the National Constitution Center The congressionally chartered museum and national town hall has not explained the sudden departure of Jeffrey Rosen as its president and chief executive. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
- “It is unlikely that even the full loss of the strike force would amount to the type of sustained casualties that would amount to a constitutional war” that lawmakers must approve, wrote the head of the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, T. Elliot Gaiser. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
- U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
- Why Trump’s and Vance’s Claim About the War Powers Resolution Is Very Misleading The resolution created different sections of statutory code. A part the Senate is weighing using has not been widely seen as unconstitutional. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...
- Justice Dept. Memo Approved Military Incursion Into Venezuela as Lawful Attorney General Pam Bondi told lawmakers in briefings this week that the administration would share Office of Legal Counsel memo with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...
- Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group Last year, before capturing Maduro, the Trump administration designated a Venezuelan slang term for drug corruption in the military as a terrorist organization and said he led it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
- Legal Issues Raised by Trump’s Seizure of Maduro, Explained The operation revives disputes over the legality of the 1989 Panama intervention, enhanced by President Trump’s vow to “run” Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro’s formal status as president. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...
- How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela Campaign New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
- John Brennan, the former CIA director, is trying to keep the Trump DOJ from steering its "grand conspiracy" investigation into Trump's political foes to Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed Trump's classified documents case. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
- Trump Relies on Distortions to Support His Pressure Campaign on Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
- Trump Relies on Distortions to Support His Pressure Campaign on Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
- Asserting a Personal Role in Warner Bros. Battle, Trump Expands His Powers Again The move comes as the Supreme Court also appears poised to put antitrust enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission under his control. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
- U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance The details could raise questions about who was responsible for a follow-up strike on Sept. 2 — the commander who ordered it or the defense secretary. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
- Hegseth Ordered a Lethal Attack but Not the Killing of Survivors, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...
- I definitely don't like everything Elon Musk has done to Twitter/X, and especially think algorithmic suppression of posts with links in them is a mistake. But this new thing of disclosing what country accounts are apparently based in is interesting.
- Trump y compañía dicen que Maduro lidera un ‘cártel’. Esto es lo que significa Los venezolanos acuñaron un término para referirse a los generales corrompidos por el dinero del narcotráfico: “Cártel de los Soles”. Estados Unidos se lo tomó literalmente. www.nytimes.com/es/2025/11/1...
- Trump Team Calls Maduro a ‘Cartel’ Boss. That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think. Venezuelans coined a figure of speech for the phenomenon of generals corrupted by drug money: “Cartel de los Soles.” Then the US started talking about it as a literal organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
- Good piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social about the liberal faculty lounge chin-stroking origins of what became a politically potent nativist argument about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. (Aside: I am sorry to hear that Peter Schuck, whose torts class I took 23 years ago, is ailing.)
- Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
- DOJ filing shows prosecution considers Comey telling Graham he didn't remember getting a memo w/ the 'Clinton plan' thing to be part of the case. Grand jury no-billed the attempted perjury charge but they think it's still evidence for obstruction charge. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Walter Isaacson and I discussed Dick Cheney's presidential power legacy and how he paved the way for Donald Trump despite being adversaries. This aired tonight on PBS's Amanpour & Co. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuH6...
- How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further Donald J. Trump and Dick Cheney became adversaries, but the former vice president set the stage for Mr. Trump’s bid to expand his executive authority. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
- My first book, Takeover, was about Dick Cheney's quest to expand presidential power (or "restore" it, as he saw it, to the level it had reached when Nixon was president, before Watergate). First two chapters, including Cheney's rise, free here: charliesavage.com/books/takeov...
- War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says The stance deepened the idea that a Vietnam-era law, which says congressionally unauthorized deployments into “hostilities” must end after 60 days, does not apply to airstrike campaigns. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
- Why Trump’s Boat Killings Would Be Hard to Prosecute Even if critics who call President Trump’s boat attacks “murder” are right as a matter of law, it would not be easy to get the matter into a court. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
- After Law Firm Deals With Trump, D.C. Bar Warns of Ethical Jeopardy The bar group’s ethics committee says firms that make a deal with the government may need to get waivers from clients with opposing interests. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
- U.S. Military Kills Six People in Latest Boat Strike in the Caribbean The Trump administration has acknowledged 10 strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats from South America, which have killed 43 people. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
- Gift link The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
- U.S. Strikes Boat in Pacific, Expanding Operation Against Drug Running Suspects It was the eighth known strike, and the first outside of the Caribbean, in the Trump administration’s campaign against what it says are boats carrying drugs bound for the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
- U.S. Attacks More Boats as Tensions With Venezuela Rise: What’s Happened So Far The Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, while striking vessels that it says are trafficking drugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
