Michael Evans
@colombiadocs.bsky.social
Editorial Director at National Security Archive. FOIA enthusiast. Colombia specialist. Bluegrass guitarist. He/Him nsarchive.gwu.edu
Seems like another great day to never read the NYT Opinions section.
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Seems like another great day to never read the NYT Opinions section.
Who are the people in the other wing Lindsey?
November 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Who are the people in the other wing Lindsey?
"I'm in the 'Hitler sucks' wing of the Republican Party." Good to know Lindsey! Now about the other wing...
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"I'm in the 'Hitler sucks' wing of the Republican Party." Good to know Lindsey! Now about the other wing...
First, if you are still trying to decide whether to let antisemites in your party, you are probably an antisemite.
Second, Vance has already told us what he thinks. It's really not up for debate.
Second, Vance has already told us what he thinks. It's really not up for debate.
November 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
First, if you are still trying to decide whether to let antisemites in your party, you are probably an antisemite.
Second, Vance has already told us what he thinks. It's really not up for debate.
Second, Vance has already told us what he thinks. It's really not up for debate.
Gottlieb said his opinion about the usefulness of researching LSD and using it in interrogations changed over time.
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Gottlieb said his opinion about the usefulness of researching LSD and using it in interrogations changed over time.
There is also a fascinating discussion about the little-known QKHILLTOP program, through which the CIA studied communist brainwashing techniques. One part concerns a record on a HILLTOP interrogation where the subject was secretly given LSD in a scheme to have them declared mentally ill.
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
There is also a fascinating discussion about the little-known QKHILLTOP program, through which the CIA studied communist brainwashing techniques. One part concerns a record on a HILLTOP interrogation where the subject was secretly given LSD in a scheme to have them declared mentally ill.
These more covert techniques using LSD were called P-1 interrogations. Gottlieb said that participated in 6 to 12 P-1 interrogations.
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
These more covert techniques using LSD were called P-1 interrogations. Gottlieb said that participated in 6 to 12 P-1 interrogations.
Gottlieb was asked about Project ARTICHOKE, a CIA program to employ drugs and other "mind control" techniques during interrogations staged as medical interventions. But Gottlieb said that his unit, TSS, wanted something “that was more covert than the ARTICHOKE technique.”
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Gottlieb was asked about Project ARTICHOKE, a CIA program to employ drugs and other "mind control" techniques during interrogations staged as medical interventions. But Gottlieb said that his unit, TSS, wanted something “that was more covert than the ARTICHOKE technique.”
If he tore down the Washington Monument and replaced it with a 100-story Trump Tower, the Post's editorial page would call it "a bold strike against red tape and NIMBYism that creates vital new hotel space in the nation's capital."
October 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
If he tore down the Washington Monument and replaced it with a 100-story Trump Tower, the Post's editorial page would call it "a bold strike against red tape and NIMBYism that creates vital new hotel space in the nation's capital."
This sort of casual hand-waving about what is, at best, a brazen power grab fueled by naked corruption should be disqualifying for a writer. He is just not serious.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
October 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This sort of casual hand-waving about what is, at best, a brazen power grab fueled by naked corruption should be disqualifying for a writer. He is just not serious.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
Fall colors, Washington, D.C.
October 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Fall colors, Washington, D.C.
Resetting the firmware this morning.
October 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Resetting the firmware this morning.
Get to know the federal security forces who are disappearing your neighbors.
October 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Get to know the federal security forces who are disappearing your neighbors.
We should let Republicans have all the Nazis.
October 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We should let Republicans have all the Nazis.
Billions of dollars in security assistance every year? That's not even close to correct.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Billions of dollars in security assistance every year? That's not even close to correct.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
Vance is one of the luckiest, least sympathetic people there is, and yet the grievances never stop, nor does his weird insistence that he is somehow personally responsible for every American success story and that ppl should be personally grateful to him for having a good life.
October 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Vance is one of the luckiest, least sympathetic people there is, and yet the grievances never stop, nor does his weird insistence that he is somehow personally responsible for every American success story and that ppl should be personally grateful to him for having a good life.
Truly a banner day for this old comic strip.
September 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Truly a banner day for this old comic strip.
Vance never seems more small-town Ohio than when he, a fully grown man, calls someone a "dipshit" in public.
September 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Vance never seems more small-town Ohio than when he, a fully grown man, calls someone a "dipshit" in public.
