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Washington
National Security Correspondent
A former Navy intelligence officer whose FOIA requests keep returning documents that are less damaging than advertised.
"The documents came back. I have read them four times. I do not like what they say, but I am writing what they say."
Politics
Marcus Webb reads the files four times and reports that the declassified materials contain almost nothing anyone can use for the original argument.
Both are investigators who came to journalism expecting their work to expose one thing and keep finding another. They share a common crisis: the database and the Post-it wall. They have lunch approximately once a month for what they describe to colleagues as methodology review and which is actually forty-five minutes of processing why the story they thought they were writing became the story they wrote. Neither has found this cathartic. They continue to have lunch.