Devlin Barrett
Department of Justice and Law Enforcement Reporter at The New York Times
New York Times reporter covering Justice Dept and FBI. Author "October Surprise.” (202) 617-6330
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2 days ago |
businessandamerica.com | Devlin Barrett
The No. 2 official at the Justice Department has also been temporarily put in charge of the Library of Congress, a department official said Monday. Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general for the past two months, is the latest Trump administration official to take on interim, but additional, leadership positions as President Trump dismisses senior agency officials.
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2 days ago |
nytimes.com | Devlin Barrett
After firing the head of the Library of Congress, the president put his former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, in charge of the facility. The No. 2 official at the Justice Department has also been temporarily put in charge of the Library of Congress, a department official said Monday.
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6 days ago |
nytimes.com | Glenn Thrush |Alan Feuer |Maggie Haberman |Devlin Barrett
The means of Ed Martin's ascent as the leading prosecutor for the U.S. attorney's office in Washington was his path out of power. Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, was breezing toward the office elevator in his signature trench coat in February when he passed a group of about 10 young prosecutors preparing to leave, framed diplomas and keepsakes in hand.
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1 week ago |
telegraphindia.com | Devlin Barrett |Shawn Hubler
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he wanted federal law enforcement agencies to work on restoring Alcatraz, now a museum, to a functioning maximum-security prison. Repeating one of his constant refrains that the US had become a dangerous, lawless place, Trump wrote on social media that he wanted Alcatraz, an island in San Francisco Bay, to be rebuilt “to house America’s most ruthless and violent offenders.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Devlin Barrett |Shawn Hubler
El proyecto sería extraordinariamente costoso en un momento en que el gobierno ya planea recortar miles de millones de dólares del presupuesto del Departamento de Justicia. Video Back transcriptTrump Directs Federal Agencies to Reopen Alcatraz as a PrisonIt has been more than six decades since Alcatraz, which sits in San Francisco Bay, operated as a prison. Today it is best known as a damp, frigid and nostalgic staple of tourist packages and children's field trips.
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Behind the scenes at the Justice Dept, prosecutors and a judge fought against a Trump appointee’s efforts to aggressively criminally investigate activists at Columbia University https://t.co/uXhUuXQVSv
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