Mattathias Schwartz was a chief national security correspondent at Business Insider.
He is a former staff writer at the New Yorker and a current contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. He has written several profiles of senior officials, including William Barr, John Brennan, James Clapper, and Mike Pompeo. "The Trolls Among Us," the first New York Times article to note the existence of 4chan, has been cited by hundreds of books and academic articles, as well as Merriam-Webster's definition of the word "troll." His investigation of the extradition of Christopher Coke from Kingston, Jamaica, won the Livingston Award for international reporting.
Ralph Drollinger has spent years teaching his brand of evangelicalism to GOP congressmen and Donald Trump's Cabinet. He's ready for Round Two.
A former KGB agent handed a thumb drive with disinformation about Hunter Biden to a Trump official at a Claremont Institute gala.
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2023-12-20T12:00:01Z
A retired FBI boss got 4 years in prison. But Charles McGonigal is not the only US official taking money from sketchy foreign oligarchs.
Hunter Biden's 2018 tax return, published here by Business Insider, complicates the narrative laid out by Special Counsel David C. Weiss's indictment.
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2023-11-14T18:11:45Z
Special agent Johnathan Buma told Congress that FBI leadership ignored his warnings about Russian influence operations involving Rudy Giuliani.
Vladimir Putin's outreach to Peter Thiel, made through a Russian diplomat, occurred in 2018 at a party in Vienna, and again in 2022.
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2023-10-31T20:07:43Z
Children constitute 41% of the 8,000-plus Palestinians reported killed by the IDF's Gaza offensive. That's a much higher share than in past conflicts.
In 2021, Thiel, a top tech investor and Trump megadonor, began a secret life as a confidential FBI informant.
"The water pipe" — despite what a top Biden official claimed on Sunday — is not "back on" in Southern Gaza.
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2023-10-11T19:09:40Z
Israeli military officials have called for starving Gaza and indiscriminate bombing. Both are war crimes, human rights lawyers say.
Insider interviewed Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange's half brother, who was accompanying a delegation of Australian lawmakers to Washington.
McGonigal took $225,000 from an Albanian with spy connections, then hid the payments from the FBI. He has pleaded guilty to helping a Russian oligarch.
The FBI "may be attempting to hide the true extent of McGonigal's misconduct," the GOP-led committee claimed in a letter to the bureau's director.
US President Joe Biden's son is launching a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service amid a slew of legal troubles.
Much of what we knew about Giuliani, Hunter Biden, Burisma, and the FBI is wrong, according to a new interview with FBI whistleblower Johnathan Buma.
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2023-09-15T18:00:00Z
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Johnathan Buma alleges that the FBI was hungry for intelligence on Hunter Biden but when his sources fingered Rudy Giuliani, he was shut down.
As New York State civil fraud charges hang over Trump's real estate valuations, ethics filings show wild swings in the value of his businesses.
Hunter Biden is going on offense, suing an ex-Trump aide and opposition researcher who has posted data alleged to have been on Biden's laptop.
Trump's attacks have entered a dangerous new phase, seeking to delegitimize not just the "deep state" but the idea of legitimate government itself.
Congressman Jamie Raskin wants answers about Jared Kushner's $3 billion Saudi-backed fund and his relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.