Charlie Savage
National Security and Legal Reporter at The New York Times
New York Times national security & legal reporter • Author of "Takeover" & "Power Wars” • Originally from Indiana
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Charlie Savage |Maggie Haberman |Jonathan Swan |Michael Schmidt
He stripped security protections and clearances from former officials who had angered him. His orders targeting law firms that have employed or represented people Mr. Trump dislikes not only bar such firms from government contracts but also threaten withholding or canceling contracts for their clients. The directives appear aimed at crippling those law firms' business, making it harder for his adversaries to find defense lawyers or, in some cases, jobs.
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2 weeks ago |
afropages.fr | Charlie Savage |Eric Schmitt
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Charlie Savage |Eric Schmitt
Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after recent gains by Al Shabab militants. Recent battlefield gains by an Islamist insurgency in Somalia have prompted some State Department officials to propose closing the U.S. embassy in Mogadishu and withdrawing most American personnel as a security precaution, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Charlie Savage
The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel has traditionally been a powerful guardrail in American government. It has issued interpretations of the law that bind agencies across the executive branch, decided which proposed policies were legally permissible or out of bounds and approved draft executive orders before they went to presidents to be signed. But in President Trump's second term so far, the office has largely been sidelined.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Charlie Savage
The Trump administration has taken steps and made claims that clash with legal opinions issued by a traditionally powerful agency that is part of the Justice Department, the Office of Legal Counsel. The office has typically had an influential role in shaping internal government legal deliberations, and its court-like opinions are supposed to bind the executive branch unless the attorney general or the president overrides them or the office itself revokes them.
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