Barton Gellman
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Senior advisor @BrennanCenter | Author 'Dark Mirror' & 'Angler' | ex-Atlantic & Wash Post | Lecturer, Princeton | Contact: bartongellman.com/contact
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https://bartongellman.com 25-02-2010 21:55:14
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BREAKING: Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. My first Pulitzer Center StoryReach article for Louisiana Illuminator lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/lou…
A former state official is arguing that accepting bribes is protected under the First Amendment. While clearly wrong, this argument reflects how the Supreme Court's tolerance for corruption emboldens officials to enrich themselves at the public’s expense. brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…
You know you shouldn't open unknown electronic documents, but sometimes you really need to know what's in them. Use Dangerzone, a utility from Micah Lee 🫡, to convert the files to malware-free PDFs. dangerzone.rocks. It works, and you can trust it.
This was a big missed opportunity. As Jack Goldsmith & Oona Hathaway write, the new directive gives absolute weight to “security,” narrowly understood, and no weight at all to the First Amendment or broader democratic interests
The charging documents for the RT-linked couple and Doppelgänger groups are an absolute intelligence gold mine. Perfect example of an effective speaking indictment by U.S. Department of Justice, and a real service to security researchers who will be digging thru this stuff for years.
The new DOJ charging documents raise a curious question: DOJ charges two lower-level employees of a Russian front company, but despite providing chapter and verse about the complicity of the two "Founders" of that company, the Founders are not charged. My Suspicion (based on my