Ben Pauker
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National Security editor @washingtonpost (diplomacy, defense, intel, etc). Before: world and national security editor @politico; exec. editor @ForeignPolicy.
Washington, DC
Joined August 2010
Trump: “I will not hesitate to send in the National Guard” across American cities.
PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT. Keeping our cities safe was a campaign promise made early on the trail back in 2023. This is what the people voted for.
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DC and LA are just the tip of the iceberg. Leaked documents detail a Pentagon plan for two National Guard units that would be ready to deploy to cities 24/7 to quell domestic disturbances — wherever and wherever ordered by the president.
🚨SCOOP: Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for domestic civil unrest. Documents reviewed by The Post detail a new National Guard mission to create standing East and West Coast units w/ hundreds of troops ready to deploy 24/7.
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🚨SCOOP: Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for domestic civil unrest. Documents reviewed by The Post detail a new National Guard mission to create standing East and West Coast units w/ hundreds of troops ready to deploy 24/7.
washingtonpost.com
Documents reviewed by The Post detail a prospective National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready around-the-clock.
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I’m old enough to remember when a mob of people attacked police officers and the Capitol Police and the president didn’t dispatch the National Guard.
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Fact: In virtually every single category, DC violent crime is significantly down as of this year.
mpdc.dc.gov
2025 Year-to-Date Crime Comparison* As of August 12, 2025
Donald J. Trump Truth Social 08.09.25 09:40 AM EST. On Monday a Press Conference will be held at the White House which will, essentially, stop violent crime in Washington, D.C. It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World. It will soon be one of the.
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Pour one out for the Drizz tonight. 👉FBI fires three senior officials, including former acting head
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The dismissals are the latest in a purge of those who drew the ire of right-wing supporters of President Donald Trump.
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“The draft report for El Salvador — which, at the Trump administration’s urging, has agreed to incarcerate migrants deported from the United States — states that the country had 🚨‘no credible reports of significant human rights abuses’ in 2024.”🚨.
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked drafts of State Dept. human rights report dramatically ease human rights criticism of El Salvador, Israel, Russia. By @mradamtaylor @hannah_natanson @John_Hudson
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EXCLUSIVE: Leaked drafts of State Dept. human rights report dramatically ease human rights criticism of El Salvador, Israel, Russia. By @mradamtaylor @hannah_natanson @John_Hudson
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Leaked draft reports show the Trump administration is planning to eliminate or downplay accounts of prisoner abuse, corruption. LGBTQ discrimination and other claims.
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SCOOP: Tulsi Gabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns over possible revelation of top-secret sources/methods in push to release lightly redacted classified (and highly politicized) House intel report on Russian 2016 election meddling. By @wstrobel .From
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CIA officials worried the release of the House Intelligence Committee report on 2016 Russian election interference could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources. Tulsi Gabbard overrode their...
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RT @leloveluck: An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague….
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If the statistics don't agree with what you want. just fire the statistician.
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Trump orders firing of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after release of large revisions to employment data
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RT @washingtonpost: Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole….
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RT @hannah_natanson: Latest in a string of stories you can read only/first from the @washingtonpost: The federal government is paying more….
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Early resignation offers and other programs have reduced the workforce, but critics say the moves are also wasting money.
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🚨‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the mega prison where the U.S. deported migrants. “Let’s hit him like a piñata,” guards shouted amid the beatings, detainees recalled, the blows echoing against the metal walls. Amazing report here by @washingtonpost staff.
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Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
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We love you too, Dan. Keep killing it.
Friends, a note about me and The Washington Post:. I'm staying. I say that because in a season of buyouts, a number of my great colleagues are departing this month and numerous people have reached out to ask if I am, too. I am not. I'm staying because even after some body.
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Harris has not ruled out another run for the White House, according to confidantes.
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The former vice president’s decision leaves the door open to another run for president in 2028 and ends speculation over whether she would try to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2026.
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
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Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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RT @CarolLeonnig: Another SCOOP on top of this Scoop: The whistleblower has presented evidence indicating Bove misled the Senate about his….
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A third whistleblower has new information about a Justice Department official the president has nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
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