Trevor Timm, The Guardian

Trevor Timm

The Guardian

San Francisco, CA, United States

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Recent:
  • Unknown
Past:
  • The Guardian
  • Columbia Journalism Review
  • Common Dreams
  • Freedom of the Press
  • The Intercept
  • The New York Times
  • AlterNet

Past articles by Trevor:

Daniel Ellsberg was one of history’s most consequential figures

May we all one day have as much courage – in life and in death – as Daniel Ellsberg → Read More

If you care about press freedom, make some noise about Julian Assange

The US justice department has acted appallingly in the Assange case. If he can be prosecuted, so can journalists everywhere → Read More

Ron DeSantis has his next target in his sights: freedom of the press

Florida’s rightwing governor and legislature want to gut one of the United States’ most important first amendment rulings → Read More

Joe Biden may have broken the Espionage Act. It’s so broad that you may have, too

The Espionage Act is incredibly broad and spares literally no one. Readers of this newspaper may even have violated it → Read More

Don’t cheer for the Espionage Act being used against Donald Trump. It will backfire

Wishing to see Trump called to account need not make us champion a 100-year-old statute used to target whistleblowers → Read More

Trump spied on journalists. So did Obama. America needs more press freedom now

Before Trump, Obama’s justice department did more to hurt press freedom than any administration since Nixon. Here’s how we stop history repeating → Read More

Trump spied on journalists. So did Obama. America needs more press freedom now

Before Trump, Obama’s justice department did more to hurt press freedom than any administration since Nixon. Here’s how we stop history repeating → Read More

For the Biden administration, who counts as news media?

First implemented in 1970, the Department of Justice’s news-media guidelines were meant to restrict the use of certain investigatory tools, like subpoenas and court orders, that might “unreasonably impair newsgathering activities.” The information sought by the DOJ had to be “essential” to an investigation, and the agency must have tried all other “reasonable alternative” to […] → Read More

The Department of Homeland Security is a rogue agency. Democrats must take action

The agency has been spying on protesters and journalists. Congress must force the DHS to massively reform – or disband → Read More

The US Senate voted to let Trump spy on your search history. But all is not lost

The amendment, which 10 Democrats voted in favor of, can still be fought against. And we must → Read More

Brazil's charges against Glenn Greenwald reek of authoritarianism

The move to retaliate against Greenwald, who has reported critically on Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, is a threat to the press everywhere → Read More

Report reveals new details about DOJ’s seizing of AP phone records

With its latest leak indictment last week, the Department of Justice under Donald Trump is now on pace to break the previous record for prosecutions of journalists’ sources, just two and a half years into its administration. A new report, released for the first time today, shows just how dangerous such cases can be to […] → Read More

Assange's indictment is Trump's next step in his war on press freedom

The case against the WikiLeaks founder is the justice department’s perfect vehicle to ultimately get what Trump wants → Read More

Devin Nunes Has a Cow, and Free Speech Is Endangered

The California congressman’s lawsuit against a cow parody account is ridiculous, but it’s also dangerous.. California Rep. → Read More

Trump is right to withdraw US troops from Syria

Thousands of troops fighting and dying in yet another Middle Eastern country is not what’s best for America → Read More

By prosecuting WikiLeaks, Trump could stifle reporting on Russian interference

It’s been one month since the Justice Department accidentally let slip that the Trump administration has secret charges filed against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The specific charges remain under seal, as a federal judge has delayed ruling on a motion by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to make them public. At least for […] → Read More

The Trump administration’s new method for cracking down on leakers

The Trump administration has now indicted at least five journalist sources in less than two years’ time—a pace that, if maintained through the end of Trump’s term, would obliterate the already-record number of leakers and whistleblowers prosecuted under eight years of the Obama administration. The latest case, which broke on Wednesday, shows the administration taking […] → Read More

Revealed: The Justice Dept's secret rules for targeting journalists with FISA court orders

The Justice Dept has kept these FISA court rules for targeting journalists secret for years. → Read More

The Government’s Argument that Reality Winner Harmed National Security Doesn’t Hold Up. Here’s Why.

The Justice Department now acknowledges that Russian hackers knew the U.S. was onto them months before the Winner leak. → Read More

Trump's Justice Dept Escalates Its Disturbing Crackdown on Leaks by Seizing New York Times Reporter's Phone and Email Records

In an aggressive escalation of its already disturbing crackdown on leaks, Trump’s Justice Department secretly obtained a year’s worth of phone calls and email records of Ali Watkins, a New York Times reporter who previously covered national security issues for Buzzfeed.As the New York Times reported on Thursday evening: | By Trevor Timm → Read More