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A police chief in Georgia used Flock's cameras to track his ex-girlfriend and her teen daughter nearly 600 times. “Don’t worry I’m not tracking you or some weird stalker shit," he texted her. After his arrest, he committed suicide.
He's one of 50 cops we found misusing Flock: 🧵
When a person in power struggles to calmly answer a normal question - like this one, from the great @jacobbogage, about the president canceling a midterm rally at the last minute - it's often revealing in its own way
.@POTUS absolutely DESTROYS Fake News @jacobbogage:
"You are a SICK guy! Reuters is terrible, by the way. Look at this guy — he's way out of shape... You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell." 🤣🤣🤣
Drew Harwell retweeted
Trump fired him. The ‘DEI Watchlist’ shamed him. Then came 500 job rejections.
Please spend some time with our story about how Trump's DEI purge changed the life of Dia Harris — one of many Black ex-feds struggling after Trump's federal cuts, we found: wapo.st/4zVn6Mt
Drew Harwell retweeted
ACLU Releases Video of ICE Agent Slashing Observers’ Tire
ICE agents tailed, boxed in, and then slashed the tire of observers’ vehicle before driving away
ICE is terrorizing our communities—now slashing tires of a Portland resident who attempted to shine a light on their abusive behavior. Amid ICE's unlawfulness, the right to bear witness has never been more important to hold our government accountable aclu.org/press-releases/aclu…
Drew Harwell retweeted
New: A Florida county sent crews to remove the mystery Flock cameras along its roads. When they arrived, the cameras were gone.
Officials still don't know who operated some of them or who removed them.
"That data could be anywhere," one resident told me.
washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
Drew Harwell retweeted
Scoops on scoops: Lotta journalistic secrets revealed in @realBobWoodward's new memoir, including how he gained entry to former CIA Director Bill Casey's hospital room to extract his confession on Iran-contra.
My story, based on advance copy of the book:
wapo.st/3UbZzrD
Drew Harwell retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s has repeatedly insisted it will not tell immigration judges how to rule, as required by law.
But after a demand from unidentified “higher-ups,” a veteran judge was ordered to reverse four rulings—then yanked from court mid-hearing.
wapo.st/4BuABEM
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In a statement, the WHCA says it “strongly objects to the decision to restrict a journalist's coverage simply because the president didn't care for their questioning. That is retaliation.
The American public's right to an independent press depends on reporters being able to do their jobs without fear that challenging the president will cut off their access.”
New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force.
One used it for five years after retirement, spying on his wife during a custody battle.
Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy.
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Drew Harwell retweeted
New story:
In 2025, the FBI was examining the actions of Sen Lindsey Graham, Rep. Jim Clyburn, and Rep. Joe Wilson as part of a sweeping bribery probe. Then Trump’s campaign of retribution demolished public corruption investigations. propublica.org/article/navat…
Drew Harwell retweeted
"The reason I keep bringing up the Palestinians throwing rocks to protect Heidi is because...these young men put their lives on the line to protect a sixty-three-year-old Jewish American journalist."
New Interview: I talked to the journalist Jasper Nathaniel about what he witnessed in the West Bank when the WaPo’s Heidi Levine & multiple Palestinians were attacked by Israeli settlers, as well as what’s been happening there before the Israeli election. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/b…
Drew Harwell retweeted
You cannot look at this attack on an American journalist in isolation; it is part of a broader, systematic pattern of Israel enabling deadly attacks, with total impunity, against Palestinian journalists in Gaza and the West Bank, long before 2023. Shireen Abu Akleh & many more…
The facts are that @Heidiphotos had her rib broken, nearly lost a finger, and not a single assailant has been arrested.
Drew Harwell retweeted
We all see the testosterone contest unfolding in politics right now. This summer, I set out with a question: what is going on ??
I talked w men: voters, organizers, candidates (Abdul El-Sayed, Sam Forstag), leaders (Gavin Newsom, Wes Moore).
Read here: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Drew Harwell retweeted
So…@PhilipWegmann and I happened to be mid-interview with Katie Zacharia when she was called out of her office midday on Friday.
She never returned—to the interview, or the job.
The Five Days of Katie, with @marianne_levine:
wsj.com/politics/policy/kati…
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On the Israeli settler attack on Palestinians and a WaPo journalist during an olive harvest:
nytimes.com/2026/10/16/world…
One thing our reporters noted that hasn't gotten much attention: the IDF shot a man running *away*, then claimed he was running at them with a "sharp object."
Drew Harwell retweeted
More corroboration:
A team of New York Times journalists witnessed the attack
nytimes.com/2026/10/16/world… via @NYTimes
Drew Harwell retweeted
To be clear: Some facts are neither in dispute nor unclear. Our photographer was clearly marked as Press. She was clearly beaten. These are not partisan or risible statements, but indisputable. We urge a thorough investigation and accountability.
The Prime Minister’s Office:
The facts surrounding the confrontation near Abu Falah, during which Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was allegedly assaulted, remain unclear and are under investigation.
Israel unequivocally condemns violence against anyone—Jews, Arabs, Christians or journalists. Those responsible will be held accountable.
But serious questions remain. Reports indicate some 200 Arabs and far-left activists confronted approximately 40 Israeli youths. Footage shows masked individuals on both sides hurling objects, amid reports of fireworks fired at Jewish youths. Other footage appears to show Levine knocked down and immediately helped to her feet by the same unidentified individual.
The investigation must establish the facts, including who initiated the violence.
We will not allow disputed incidents to be exploited to demonize the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.
The facts must determine the conclusions. Not the headlines.
