U.S. intelligence & law enforcement correspondent @Reuters. Scuba diver. Signal: janawinter.99 jana.winter@thomsonreuters.com
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Someone recently told me if I was actually interested in reporter shield law issues i needed to “educate” myself on the case law before speaking. He then referred me to one specific case: Holmes v Winter (I’m the Winter).
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For weeks those same neighbors had that front page of NYT with the names of the dead taped to their window facing out to Jared & Ivanka’s house.
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Exclusive: The head of the Office of Congressional Ethics overseeing investigations into lawmaker misconduct--like Rep Conyers, Nunes, etc--is accused of allegedly assaulting women, abusing his position of power, according to a lawsuit filed against him.
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I pointed to myself and said “I’m the winter of your discontent” cause mostly well I just always wanted to say that and that’s all I had in that moment 😂
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Exclusive: Allen, Texas Mass Shooter “served in the U.S. Army in 2008 and was removed due to mental health concerns,” per an FBI bulletin reviewed by Rolling Stone. Suspect had 100s of white supremacist posts on social media. @RollingStone rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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My first scoop for @RollingStone: there’s been a sharp increase in online threats and calls for violence if Trump’s arrested. Intel bulletins obtained by Rolling Stone detail threats being tracked by law enforce & gov agencies worried about another Jan 6 rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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Exclusive: the Special Counsel’s target letter to Donald Trump related to Jan. 6 listed the federal statutes under which Trump is expected to be charged, including conspiracy, obstruction, and civil rights violations, @RollingStone has learned. rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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Too devestated for eloquence, can't overstate her impact. Her vote saved me from going to jail for refusing to give up my anon sources.
Sheila Abdus-Salaam, Judge on New York’s Top Court, Is Found Dead in Hudson River nyti.ms/2p8D2LP
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Exclusive: Ex-Russian military bomber engineer seeks asylum at U.S. border, offers Russian military secrets news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ex-…
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Microsoft Word just autocorrected “Five Eyes” to “Five Guys” and man does that change this story I’m writing 🍔
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Here’s the FBI bulletin sent law enforcement agencies suggesting they exercise caution and consider use of SWAT when arresting people who wore body armor during Jan 6, U.S. Capitol breach. Pic is weapons stockpile FBI found at home of suspect. (First reported by @jeffpeguescbs).
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Exclusive: the U.S. government is finally acknowledging that right-wing extremists were responsible for the majority of fatal domestic terrorist attacks last year, according to an internal terrorism review circulated by DHS and obtained by Yahoo News. news.yahoo.com/right-wing-ex…
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Here's the full story of the crazy frenetic last 24 hrs at Washington DC Russian annex as they prepare to close (screaming, fires & more.)
EXCLUSIVE. Fire at Russian diplomatic building about to be closed, by @janawinter. foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/01… …
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My first story for @BostonGlobe (and it’s a good one)—>
Under a new domestic surveillance program, air marshals are tracking people not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list. Some air marshals told the Globe they are shadowing travelers who pose no real threat. bos.gl/BcB9Qdp
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Exclusive: The U.S. government believes Iran may try to assassinate current or former senior American officials, according to an intelligence report prepared ahead of Biden’s Middle East trip and obtained by Yahoo News. (Read intel report at end of story). news.yahoo.com/exclusive-us-…
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Wow. 845 pages and NOTHING—NOTHING—on the failures of DHS Office of Intelligence & Analysis, the one agency in entire gov charged by law with sharing emerging threat info with state, local agencies. This is insane. news.yahoo.com/exclusive-an-…
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This isn’t just the post office. The Department of Homeland Security widely disseminated this post office iCOP bulletin to local, state, fed police nationwide through their fusion center network. So issue is also why is DHS pushing out this work.
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Last year @YahooNews revealed the existence of iCOP, a secret post office surveillance program targeting Black Lives Matter protesters & others. This prompted an inspector general probe that found: post office did not have legal authority to do this work. news.yahoo.com/inspector-gen…
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Exclusive: State Dept. gives law enforcement, intelligence agencies unrestricted access to Americans’ personal data news.yahoo.com/exclusive-sta…
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Exclusive: House Oversight Committee asks for inspector general investigation into the Postal Service’s secret surveillance program know as iCOP news.yahoo.com/house-oversig…
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Some personal news: I’m the 2018 Boston Globe Spotlight Fellow. Could not possibly be more excited about this and can’t wait to get started.
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the prize is me being in this never before experienced Twitter cocoon of kindness and support (and frankly some high quality Winter puns id never heard before) so lemme enjoy this before everyone gets all crazy again lol
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Jan. 6 report sidesteps DHS, federal intelligence failures before deadly Capitol attack, by me and @Isikoff. news.yahoo.com/jan-6-report-…
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Seeing lots of wrong info on Venezuela & new travel ban. It's narrow, only bans some gov officials- NOT everyone from Venezuela. See here:
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I have many things to say about this story but first a huge thanks to my editor @weinbergersa for helping me tell this is a digestible compelling way, to everyone at @YahooNews for help & guidance & to Rambo for risking his job to talk news.yahoo.com/operation-whi…
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Hi scuba divers here and I’m just not going to let this go. This is nonsense just stop. please. Many reasons for coral in danger, mostly tied to humans. Coral regrowing is good. That’s the point. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Exclusive: Buzzfeed subpoenaed DNC in attempt to verify Dossier allegations foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/06…
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Ive watched and rewatched and still wondering if there is any way his kid was killed cause literally cannot comprehend why he’d say that
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Hahaha not paid by me tho (thank god). I was literally about to message you to be like hello ex lawyer see my tweet about people thinking they know our case
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Exclusive: Department of Homeland Security warns that trucker protests in U.S. could begin on Super Bowl Sunday, from me and @CEDickson news.yahoo.com/exclusive-dep…
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From my latest exclusive on warning US gov wrote up same day Russian Ambassador chatted up now AG Sessions, other Trump campaign officials nitter.app/noahshachtman/status/8…
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Exclusive: Buzzfeed. Trump Dossier. Former top FBI Official. Mueller. Verification. (It's got it all.) foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/12…
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Exclusive: Threats against politicians, doctors and police: Here is some of the intelligence that led to the latest DHS warning news.yahoo.com/threats-again…
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Also possible she’s making sure to cover all the bases so this can’t be used as grounds for appeal
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(oh I have def left similar situations where I only think of the perfect thing to say hours or days later when no longer applicable 😬)
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Exclusive: Jacksonville shooter was under 72 hour hold in 2017 + new details on attack per briefing call w FBI Director Wray, Jacksonville sheriff etc rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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EXCLUSIVE: FBI and CDC are investigating “questionable vials” labeled smallpox found at Merck facility near Philadelphia news.yahoo.com/vials-labeled…
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Wowwww CBP now needs warrant to search electronic devices of people crossing border. Just wow— huge huge deal.
This is a big deal decision from a federal district court in New York. knightcolumbia.org/content/f…
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Told someone from a gov agency I was interested in doing stories about “drug snuggling”
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Hearing movement right now in back of the Russian trade building in DC ordered shut (My boyfriend lives next door.)
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It’s not every day Ted Cruz and the ACLU agree on something. Guess the one thing we call all agree on is: why on earth is the post office running a “internet covert operations program” collecting our social media. And why is @DHSgov disseminating this work to cops nationwide?
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And DHS. Much of this new GAO report focuses on failures—the many, many serious failures—at DHS Office of Intelligence & Analysis. I reported on much of this in Dec but didn’t know I&A decided not to share threat info w Capitol Police for objectively just idk super dumb reasons
New GAO report says FBI, Capitol police failed to share information about credible threats before Jan 6th gao.gov/products/gao-23-1066…
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Exclusive: FBI and DHS warns U.S. officials of possible Russian cyber attacks linked to invasion of Ukraine. news.yahoo.com/exclusive-fbi…
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um yeah he def doesn’t deserve you or your meatballs which obv have garlic who is he to question
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someone should make/sell Covid advent calendar type gifts so people sick and stuck at home can have fun presents to open every day
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To be fair, @Cernovich totally called it re: Bannon during the podcast w us Monday. Cc @weinbergersa @EliasGroll nitter.app/weinbergersa/status/89…
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Specifically, FBI bulletin warned of threat of "unaffiliated lone offender" targeting outdoor music festivals in Las Vegas.
EXCLUSIVE: 9 months ago, the FBI worried about a lone offender attacking Las Vegas, @janawinter reports. atfp.co/2xgX6vm
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Exclusive: Jacksonville shooter wanted to kill Machine Gun Kelly and Eminem, according to the shooter’s writings reviewed by Rolling Stone rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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China has been kidnapping dissidents and fugitives abroad for years. Now, they may be doing it in America. foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29…
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Exclusive: FBI Reports Show Terror Suspects Coming From Canada While Trump Stares at Mexico thebea.st/2jWvmud
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Here's the link to full federal Joint Intelligence Bulletin detailing FBI/DHS's ISIS-related twitter monitoring fxn.ws/1qoEh1F
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Would like to add that this “vetting” of journalists, members of Congress, NGO workers & gov officials from other agencies continues to this day under Biden admin by the same CBP division run by the same people with zero rules governing their work
Chilling story by @janawinter about a secret Trump-era surveillance program news.yahoo.com/operation-whi…
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Exclusive: Top DHS intel official in charge of tracking border security, fentanyl issues, walked out, has office raided, covered in crime tape @RollingStone rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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@janawinter They are 100 percent watching. Feds, come say hi. (There is insane #of cameras looking in)
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Ok, so ex DHS Ken Cuccinelli told Jan 6 committee DHS I&A + rest of Intel community going into Jan 6 “we didn’t go in assuming or with information pointing to the likelihood of violence”. Except…. news.yahoo.com/amphtml/exclu…
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If you are a government agency and cannot answer the question “under what authority are you doing X” that is perhaps a problem
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More from ex DHS Ken Cuccinelli. So.. @YahooNews reported, a DHS Intel analyst prepared briefing using same likelihood of violence indicators used during Portland/civil unrest and that showed nearly all indications violence would be likely on Jan 6 news.yahoo.com/exclusive-an-… 🤷🏻♀️
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Signs you've been in Washington too long: your email service experiences an outage and does not properly update customers, which you interpret as lies in furtherance of criminal conspiracy & coverup. Until very kind people point out it's just incompetence. #apologiesandgoodnight
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DHS inspector general launches investigation into TSA’s Quiet Skies domestic surveillance program bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/0…
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Good sir it is called a fascinator and we should have my English side of the family send us as much fancy hat and American royal wedding swag so we can throw a party!
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Happy 5 year no-jail-iversary to me. Thanks to my one billion NY, DC & CO lawyers I prob am not supposed to tag (except for you @smmarotta) Dianne, Nick, Dori, Theresa, Ben, Nate, Patsy, Chris, Sean, other Chris, Colorado Mike: you’re the best. Colorado: you’re still the worst.
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Texas police admit to failed shooting response; say kids in room with gunman called 911 from me, @realchriswilson @stableford. “They broke every rule in the book,”said sr gov official who does school active shooter trainings. “They did everything wrong.” news.yahoo.com/texas-police-…
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Because this guy launched investigation into Nunes that led to him resigning from leading Russia investigation. Ethics guy made recommendation to ethics commitee to pursue Nunes investigation which cleared Nunes. This raises Q's about ethics official's judgement, pursuit of Nunes
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Exclusive: DHS, FBI are tracking online posts promoting a violent Jan. 6 reunion on Capitol Hill from me and @CEDickson news.yahoo.com/exclusive-dhs…
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Also the previous DHS OIG was indicted on charges involving him stealing all sensitive DHS agencies’ files and giving them to foreign country etc etc.
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Update on our exclusive: On Tuesday evening, an e-mail update sent to DHS leadership and obtained by Rolling Stone stated that additional “acoustic feedback was heard and will assist in vectoring surface assets and also indicating continued hope of survivors.” More details here:
Searchers for the missing Titan submersible heard ‘banging’ from the area, according to internal e-mail updates sent to the Department of Homeland Security leadership and obtained by Rolling Stone. w/ @janawinter rollingstone.com/culture/cul…
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Would like to add that the postal service says they’ve been doing this surveillance to identify potential threats of violence from upcoming protests. So, where were they in the run up to Jan 6 attack on US Capitol? Exceeding their authority? Bad at their job? Both?
Yahoo! News exclusive: The US Postal Service's covert surveillance program, which has been monitoring Americans' social media posts, is using Clearview AI face recognition and creating false identities online according to documents obtained by @janawinter.
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Our first of what will likely be many follow up stories on this. Who else wants to comment? Please reach out jana.winter@yahoonews.com. Sen. Wyden demands inspector general report into CBP employees who investigated journalists and others news.yahoo.com/wyden-cbp-sur…
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.@gzornick @erikkaknuti they're the exact same: lotta tweeting, zero change
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BUT WHO WILL INVESTIGATE HIM? Hi i'm Jana and I wrote this story and spent for ever trying to figure out who or what has oversight over the congressional ethics office and its officials. If you know please email janawinter@protonmail.com or DM. Thanks.
Safe to say that you probably don't want the man in charge of investigating misconduct in Congress to also be accused of assaulting women.
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DOJ: “At the request of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, the U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a Critical Incident Review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.”
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Exclusive: Inside Trump’s Demands for a High-Profile Surrender: ‘It’s Kind of a Jesus Christ Thing’ for @RollingStone (shout-out to my excellent editor @Patrick_C_Reis) rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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Exclusive: Citing North Korea threats, DHS fusion center doc urges gov agencies to prep for catastrophic nuke attack foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/25…
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Oh. DHS #2 Ken Cuccinelli had meeting w Trump in oval on Jan 5 about “the role of congress in counting electoral votes”. No one else present at meeting.
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tomorrow morning lawmakers will get briefed on the post office’s iCOP (formerly) covert social media collection program that yahoo news revealed last week. CONGRESSMEN & WOMAN PLEASE ASK WHEN ICOP social media work began. DATE? Time? Under whose authority? news.yahoo.com/post-office-t…
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This is a real important point. I am not saying what Rambo did was great but it was absolutely, at every step of the way, authorized, ordered and rewarded by every (including highest levels) of @CBP management. He shouldn’t be fall guy here. This is bigger than him. Much bigger.
Lots of troubling details in this story about a government surveillance program targeting journalists.
Perhaps most troubling: one of the most aggressive agents was repeatedly praised by @CBP for his efforts, which included monitoring reporters’ families. news.yahoo.com/operation-whi…
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Um yeah thanks, @nytimes for completely ripping off my story without crediting us nitter.app/weinbergersa/status/89…
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+ @rcfp The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. If you’re a journalist trying to fight off a subpoena or jail time (or both), @rcfp really, really, really helps. No matter where you work.
Many Americans don't know Committee to Protect Journalists, or @pressfreedom. Their mission is to help journalists (& their families) who have been wrongly imprisoned/killed globally. Today it's about journalists here. I'm donating today and respectfully suggest that you do too.
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