Massimo Calabresi

Calabresi is TIME’s Washington bureau chief.

Recent Articles

Exclusive: Holder to Oppose Data-Driven Sentencing

Statistics can predict criminal risk. Can they deliver equal justice?

By Massimo Calabresi

10 Questions With John Dean

Forty years after his boss resigned, he’s back with The Nixon Defense based on the Watergate tapes

By Massimo Calabresi

In Charities We Trust

The IRS takes nonprofits at their word

By Massimo Calabresi

IRS Readies Rubber Stamp

IRS head touts "efficiencies," but some groups fear fraud

By Massimo Calabresi

Dutch Block U.S. Extradition

The U.S. wanted to put Sabir Khan on trial in New York for supporting terrorist attacks against Americans in Afghanistan

By Massimo Calabresi

Snowden and the NSA Can Both Be Right

Two reports raise the possibility that on balance, both the NSA collection programs and Snowden’s revelations have done more to advance the public good than to harm it

By Massimo Calabresi

Supreme Court Limits Presidential Recess Appointment Powers

The setback for President Obama is unlikely to stem the increasing political debate over the reach of executive power

By Massimo Calabresi

IRS in More Trouble with GOP

To the list of conduct once unacceptable to–but since embraced by–the Internal Revenue Service we can now add false promises. Called before a House subcommittee to explain his agency’s loss of two years’ worth of...

By Massimo Calabresi

Privacy Is Portable

The court takes a broad view on cyber-rights

By Massimo Calabresi

You Can't Search Me Now

A landmark ruling

By Massimo Calabresi

An IRS Computer Glitch Gives New Life to a Fading Scandal

If a friendly auditor from the Internal Revenue Service comes calling and you can’t get your hands on all those receipts you’re supposed to keep for seven years, try this: tell them you saved electronic...

By Massimo Calabresi

U.S. Weighs Iraq Options

Questions of how lessons from the past decade apply to the growing threat from Islamist extremists in Iraq. Current and former counterterrorism officials tell TIME that the ISIS militant group storming across Iraq seems focused more on its enemies in the region than on Americans thousands of miles away, buying time for a more narrowly tailored response

By Massimo Calabresi

Republicans Press White House on Tea Party Scrutiny

"We are simply not going to accept the IRS claim that these documents are not recoverable," says House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp

By Massimo Calabresi

The 'War on Terror' Won't Die

Just last month, Obama was making progress in rolling back extraordinary post-9/11 presidential powers. That was then.

By Massimo Calabresi

The Last Time Qatar Promised To Watch A Gitmo Prisoner, He Walked

Despite a 2008 promise in writing, the Qataris let former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Jarallah al-Marri travel to Great Britain, where he was arrested.

By Massimo Calabresi

'Suck It Up and Salute'

Pentagon, Intelligence officials used Top Secret intelligence to prevent previous release of Taliban Five, officials tell TIME

By Massimo Calabresi

Taliban Leaders Freed For Bowe Bergdahl May Remain A Threat

Are the five Taliban leaders released by the U.S. in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl a threat to Americans? On numbers alone, the answer would seem to be yes.Of the 614 Gitmo prisoners who had...

By Massimo Calabresi

Hillary's New Book Contains Chapter on Benghazi

"Hard Choices" offers an exquisitely lawyerly version of Benghazi that is less inaccurate than some Republican accounts.

By Massimo Calabresi

Rise of the Private Surveillance State

Secretive data brokers have amassed thousands of details on virtually every household in the country.

By Massimo Calabresi

Carl Levin Passes Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay

After passing his bill out of committee Thursday, Carl Levin said “We’ve created a path to close Guantanamo.” Levin’s bill is written in cleverly constructed language that would provide lawmakers some political cover if President Obama chooses to go down that path

By Massimo Calabresi
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