Russ Baker

As the New York Times reports,
Large batches of e-mail records from the Justice Department lawyers who worked on the 2002 legal opinions justifying the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation techniques are missing, and the Justice Department told lawmakers Friday that it would try to trace the disappearance. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who… [Read the rest]

My experience is that the biggest potential stories are simply too big for the major organs of daily journalism. That’s the lesson I learned writing my book, Family of Secrets. That’s also why I started www.WhoWhatWhy.com.  Where we do find the really explosive material, it often pops up in the seemingly least-likely places. So it is that we must turn… [Read the rest]

Traditional journalism organizations as a matter of practice eschew and even sometimes demonize the work of independent journalists who document apparent high-level collusion against the broader public interest.  ”Conspiracy theory,” they sniff. Yet with the fast-changing media landscape, even the most cautious enterprises are suddenly suffused with the spirit of the muckrakers, who were unafraid to routinely document the extent… [Read the rest]

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This is a Beta site awaiting public funding so it can go daily. If you like what you see here, if you appreciate the kind of serious journalistic exploration of “deep politics” exemplified by WhoWhatWhy founder Russ Baker’s book “Family of… [Read the rest]

Here in the United States, we are regularly warned by the media and the pundits not to subscribe to wacky “conspiracy theories.”  (For more on this theme, see my book, Family of Secrets.)  Even a suggestion that figures tied to our intelligence services might have participated in something seriously untoward on our own shores – is pooh-poohed.  This, notwithstanding well-documented thuggery by… [Read the rest]