Ryan Barber
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@WSJ reporter covering DOJ, courts, et al | Signal: cryanbarber.41 |
Washington, DC
Joined April 2009
New: At least 3 packages containing suspicious "white powder" have arrived this year at the federal courthouse handling January 6 cases. Hazmat crews have responded each time. In a rare and unnerving breach, 1 of the packages entered a judge's chambers. https://t.co/rknnVXIHuL
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Former President Donald Trump's four years in the White House coincided with a surge in threats against federal judges across the country.
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NEW: A Jan. 6 rioter who breached the Senate floor — and was subsequently pardoned by Trump — was arrested Sunday for threatening to assassinate Leader Hakeem Jeffries. https://t.co/PneQ2uk2Xn
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Here's the WSJ's front page today Evan Gershkovich has been a Russian captive for a year. He's a caring friend, a brilliant colleague and an innocent man. It's beyond time to let him go. Free Evan.
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From our WSJ story last week: The border-related executive actions Biden was considering, including the Trump-era plans that would limit asylum w/ @MHackman
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Democrats are heartened by the New York special-election results seen as a referendum on a perilous issue.
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Ted also broke the news that the feds are investigating Vince McMahon — a story that he managed to get across the finish line despite the chaos of the last few days. That story is on the front page of the Journal today. @thetrough is the real deal.
Ted Mann, just one of the great reporters on this list, got the majority of the paper’s bridgegate scoops, turning the story of a bizarre traffic study into a scandal for Chris Christie with national implications.
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Mr. Graff is a class act, beloved by the reporters and editors who have worked with him, the steady hand behind the scenes for many of the stories I have reported.
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Jamie @lathram is an amazingly talented editor with a sharp mind, sound news judgment, a steady hand under pressure, a deft pen and best of all, a truly kind human being. Any reporter would be lucky to work for him. I know I was. This news is heartbreaking.
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It is outrageous that our colleague @evangershkovich has now been illegally detained for 9 months. More must be done to bring him home. #IStandWithEvan
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The @IAPE1096 organized a demonstration at the World Bank/IMF meetings, with some two dozen journalists from @WSJ, @jdforward @JTAnews @Reuters sending a message to delegates & making their case to reporters and photographers covering the global financial meeting. #IStandWithEvan
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Last year, Evan was covering the rise of hostage diplomacy from Moscow. Now, he's the face of it. @louiseradnofsky @wstrobel
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The Wall Street Journal reporter is the latest in a growing list of Americans who have been detained by foreign governments on bogus charges, often to gain leverage with Washington.
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Temporarily suspending my tweeting boycott to call attention to Russia's detention of my friend @benfritz's @WSJ colleague, Evan Gershkovich - please read and share the @pressfreedom letter calling for his release
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CPJ joined more than 30 global organizations and media outlets calling for the release of U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich from Russian custody.
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Today is the third morning that my @WSJ colleague and friend @evangershkovich is waking up in a Russian prison, a hostage of the Kremlin who has been taken off the street for the sin of being an American journalist, and denied any contact with the outside world since #FreeEvan
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“Many Western news agencies that posted reporters to Moscow under Stalin have determined that President Vladimir Putin’s Russia is too dangerous for journalism.” Stand with Evan
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The correspondent, whose parents fled the Soviet Union, made Moscow a second home. He was detained Wednesday by the FSB for alleged espionage, an allegation the Journal vehemently denies.
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News organizations from around the world joined President Biden's call to release WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich
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The editors condemned Mr. Gershkovich’s detention in a letter to the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
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I got pub drinks w/ @evangershkovich last fall in London. We spent hours talking about reporting and how we got into the biz to tell stories that mattered. He was so excited to be “just a kid from Jersey” bearing witness to such a historic conflict in Europe. #IStandWithEvan
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The inimitable @cryanbarber reported last week that Howell also recently rejected Trump’s assertion of executive privilege to block a grand jury subpoena issued to Mark Meadows as part of the probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. That story:
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The ruling compels one of the former president’s lawyers to undergo further grand jury questioning.
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Pence’s lawyer Emmet Flood has also left the courthouse. He too declined to answer questions about the sealed hearing.
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Trump’s legal team has left court about 90 minutes after going into Judge Boasberg’s courtroom. The lawyers declined to comment on the hearing.
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Trump and Pence’s lawyers, along with prosecutor Tom Windom, have all entered Chief Judge Boasberg’s courtroom.
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Pence’s lawyer Emmet Flood is in the building, waiting for this hearing to begin.
Spotted at the federal courthouse: Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran. He’s here today for a closed-door hearing on the challenge to special counsel Jack Smith’s subpoena to former VP Mike Pence in the inquiry into efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election.
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