Massimo Calabresi

Calabresi is TIME’s Washington bureau chief.

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Former Army Chief Poised to Become Egypt’s President Less than a year after Egypt’s first democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi, was ousted by the country’s armed forces, the general who seized power last summer is...

By Massimo Calabresi

No, You Can't Smoke Pot And Work For The FBI

Want to be a Fed or a spy but you inhaled, like, last night?On Monday, FBI chief James Comey seemed to open the door for pot smokers when he told the American Bar Association’s annual...

By Massimo Calabresi and Zeke J Miller

U.S. Charges Chinese Officials With Cyber Espionage

Attorney General Eric Holder unveiled economic espionage charges against Chinese military officials for targeting American companies

By Massimo Calabresi

Global Raids Underway Against ‘Blackshades’ Hackers

After months of investigation, law enforcement officials in the U.S., Europe and Asia are cracking down on a hacking network employing a computer program known as “Blackshades,” which can be used as malware to control the computers of unwitting people

By Massimo Calabresi

Rand Paul Set for Second Drones Filibuster

The Republican senator will aim to draw attention to President Obama's drone policy during debate over the nomination of a former Justice Department official to the federal bench, following up his 13-hour filibuster in 2013 to try to block John Brennan from going to the CIA

By Massimo Calabresi

Inside the Obama Administration's Fight Over the Drone Memo

The Obama Administration, under pressure from liberals and libertarians who threaten to sink a judicial nomination, is inching closer to the release of classified legal memos it claims justify the use of drone strikes against Americans fighting for al-Qaeda

By Zeke J Miller and Massimo Calabresi

House GOP Investigations: Libertarian Turning Point or Partisan Ploy?

In the era of Tea Party opposition to Obamacare and Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform, Congressional Republicans say they have embraced a shift of power away from the Presidency to Capitol Hill.

By Massimo Calabresi

CIA Used False Benghazi Info

Analysts relied on news reports of protests, fueling the scandal and revealing the agency's struggle to accurately collect and assess public information, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee on report on Benghazi

By Massimo Calabresi

Inside Putin's Eastern European Spy Network

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s well-organized espionage operations from the Baltic Sea to the Caucasus are described as "soft power with a hard edge," but his efforts across the region have been more systematic than the unrest in Ukraine suggests

By Massimo Calabresi

When Warrantless Phone Searches Are Totally OK

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments over when and whether the police can search cell phones after an arrest, as lower courts have been split on whether that's allowed by law and, if so, just much information can be taken off them and stored

By Massimo Calabresi

Obama’s New Bodyguard: Mr. Issa, Meet Mr. Eggleston

The new White House counsel is an expert at managing Congressional investigations in high-profile cases

By Massimo Calabresi

Supreme Court Weighs Truth in Politics

The justices appear ready ahead of the midterm elections later this year to knock down laws in 16 states that aim to prevent lying in political races, likely claiming they violate the First Amendment's guarantees of free speech

By Massimo Calabresi

GM Troubles Haunt Former Executive's Congress Run

Articles about the Chevy Cobalt's ignition shut-off problems were written in 2005, but top General Motors officials including Debbie Dingell, who oversaw the company's marketing strategies that year and who's now running for Congress, apparently didn't read them

By Massimo Calabresi

9/11 Plotters' Lawyers: FBI Tried to Recruit From Us

The defense team for five men accused of planning and launching the Sept. 11 attacks, currently in pretrial hearings at Guantánamo Bay, alleges the FBI attempted to turn one of its lawyers into a confidential informant

By Massimo Calabresi

GM Tried Switch Fix Years Ago

Documents released by the House Oversight Committee show the engineer who designed the faulty ignition switch at the heart of the GM recall of 2.6 million cars in February had approved fixes to the system eight years ago without changing the part number

By Massimo Calabresi

Exclusive: SEC Chair Mary Jo White On Not Sleeping, Money Markets And The Angry Left

In her first year at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Chair Mary Jo White has toughened enforcement, broken a partisan stalemate over post-crash regulation and launched studies of high frequency trading and market fragmentation. In...

By Massimo Calabresi

Mary Jo White Teaches Old Wall Street Watchdogs New Tricks

The SEC Chairwoman prepares to wield the power of compromise

By Massimo Calabresi

Mary Jo White Plays The Middle At The SEC

With major rules in the offing at the Wall Street's top watchdog agency, the SEC chair is working both sides of the political aisle.

By Massimo Calabresi

Putin’s Irony Curtain: Russia Uses NATO War in Kosovo to Validate Intervention

Russia uses NATO's 1999 war in Kosovo to validate it's intervention in Ukraine, challenging the West in Crimea and beyond.

By Massimo Calabresi

The DOJ's Mortgage Fraud Numbers Are Wrong

The Justice Department touted wildly inflated anti-mortgage fraud numbers from the financial crisis and overstated its commitment to combating mortgage fraud, an inspector general report finds

By Massimo Calabresi
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