Joel Schectman
@joel_schectman
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WSJ enterprise reporter - espionage, psyops, cyber. Into film, philosophy & astronomy. Ex-Reuters. Tell me your story. [email protected]/ DM me for signal.
Washington, D.C.
Joined September 2008
NEW: As COVID-19 was rampaging through Southeast Asia the Pentagon ran an anti-vax psyop to scare Filipinos away from taking the China's Sinovac, the only inoculation available at the time. Very proud of this investigation with @Bing_Chris
reuters.com
The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.
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@0x786d @jsrailton @_clem1 @josephfcox @Bing_Chris @joel_schectman @0x786d Hello, please find the unroll here: https://t.co/Fq9eY2D3Ua Have a good day. 🤖
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@jsrailton: A "damaging" leak of tools from a five eyes exploit developer? Concerning. We need to know what's under this rug. Big picture: "trusted, vetted" private sector players offensive cyber are...
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Trump team preparing changes at the IRS that would facilitate criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups. A senior IRS official has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors. @schwartzbWSJ @RichardRubinDC @joel_schectman
wsj.com
The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.
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If these guys take action without either a mental image or voice it raises a strange question. Are the rest of us guided by these phenomena or is that experience of consciousness a secondary, illusory artifact that exists separate from our action? Is freewill an illusion?
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This is one of the most remarkable things I’ve ever watched.
I found people who have no thoughts. Inside their heads, in their own words, it's just a big, black "nothing". My wild investigation premieres at 12pm ET today! https://t.co/TQVVh9wyNs
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The written testimony is posted for tomorrow's House Oversight Committee UAP hearing. Here are some interesting bits:
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My latest: Chinese hackers posed as a Republican China hawk to spy on trade groups
wsj.com
The FBI is investigating a scheme to spy on trade groups using fake emails from China committee chair Rep. John Moolenaar.
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And the man has been a real mensch over the years as I besieged him with rookie questions. An incredible honor to be found in an endnote of this latest work that will undoubtedly guide a new generation of young hungry natsec reporters on the agencies foibles.
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Tim’s Legacy of Ashes has been a North Star for me of the kind of accountability journalism that I’ve tried to do on clandestine action…a glimpse of the work possible if we stay tough and never go soft for access.
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Tim’s new book is The Mission. A lot of fun to see him at politics and prose w two little, disruptive kids in tow.
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That’s it, I’m retiring now. Sorry ufo community but you’ll get no more stories from me. Why? @Folly_and_Glory cited me @bozorgmehr & @billmarczak in his new CIA book. My optimal end state has been reached.
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Absolutely riveted by @katiekitamura Audition. In the best way possible - a mashup of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and mid-2000’s Murakami.
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Very proud to win this award for our project exposing a secret Pentagon disinformation campaign that spread fear of Chinese vaccines at height of the Covid pandemic and endangered countless lives. Miss my ace partner @Bing_Chris
https://t.co/xkW8ENuNw4
.@Bing_Chris and @joel_schectman of @Reuters have won the 2025 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. Congratulations, Christopher and Joel! #journalismawards
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Really enjoyed this take on our UFO stories by Ross Douthat @aviswanatha
https://t.co/yHUnU6yK2J
nytimes.com
Toward a unified theory of an extremely weird situation.
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Part II of our saga in Chinese!
#本周热读 从通灵间谍、瞬间移动到抗重力金属，五角大楼内部的UFO信徒深入探索科学边缘。一场看似源于罗斯威尔坠落金属碎片的调查，牵扯出数十年���外星科技传闻与机密实验真相。 https://t.co/WJ63WPttaO
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Saw Elio today. Fun to hear AARO referenced in the movie.
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How a band of alien believers turned the myth of reverse engineering UFOs at Lockheed into something like reality https://t.co/86dB3n8gz8 with @aviswanatha
wsj.com
Pentagon true believers explored the fringes of science, from psychic spies to teleportation to antigravity material.
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