The Intercept
October 5, 2018
THE OPPOSITION TO Brett Kavanaugh that has gotten the most attention is, naturally, the Senate Democrats who are voting against his Supreme Court nomination, and members of the #MeToo movement who believe Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez when they ...
Author: Peter Maass
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 1983, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, I went to Brussels as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. I left the Journal in 1985 to write for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, covering NATO and the European Union. In 1987 I moved to Seoul, South Korea, where I wrote primarily for The Washington Post. After three years in Asia I moved to Budapest to cover Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I spent most of 1992 and 1993 covering the war in Bosnia for the Post.
Why Brett Kavanaugh’s High School Friends Try to Protect His Reputation — and Theirs
The Intercept
October 4, 2018
Co-written with Alice Speri
THERE IS AN underappreciated reason that explains why, apart from Christine Blasey Ford’s remarkable testimony about her summer of 1982 and what a drunken 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh did to her, almost nothing has been heard about his after-hours ...
The Internet Archive Publishes Brett Kavanaugh’s 1983 Yearbook, a Key Document in Nomination Battle
The Intercept
October 3, 2018
Co-written with Alice Speri
AS SCRUTINY OF Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s high school years intensifies amid accusations of sexual assault, much has been written about a series of allusive references to alcohol and girls that Kavanaugh and his classmates made ...
Is Brett Kavanaugh’s High School Ditching Him? More Than 100 Alumni Sign Petition Against Him
The Intercept
October 3, 2018
A PETITION THAT was started just a few days ago by two alumni of Brett Kavanaugh’s high school to encourage other graduates to come forward with information about any sexual assaults he committed there has picked up 96 signatures, the petition organizers ...
“Our Silence Will Serve No One” — Alumni of Brett Kavanaugh’s School Urge Sharing of Information
The Intercept
September 29, 2018
Co-written with Liliana Segura
A GROUP OF alumni from Brett Kavanaugh’s high school is calling on fellow graduates to come forward if they have information about any sexual assaults the Supreme Court nominee committed, stating in a new petition, “Please do not remain ...
Here Are 5 Questions the FBI Should Ask Mark Judge About Brett Kavanaugh
The Intercept
September 29, 2018
Co-written with Akela Lacy
A LAWYER FOR Mark Judge has said that Judge will talk with agents from the FBI, which is reopening a background check of Brett Kavanaugh — so the question of the moment is, what information can the FBI get out of him?
Judge is in a position ...
The Closer You Look, the Worse Brett Kavanaugh’s Relationship with Mark Judge Appears
The Intercept
September 25, 2018
A QUESTION THAT sounds innocuous — did Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge drink and party together at Georgetown Preparatory School? — has become key to figuring out whether an inebriated Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl as Judge watched ...
Memoir About Brett Kavanaugh’s High School Portrays Culture of Aggression and Excessive Drinking
The Intercept
September 22, 2018
NOT LONG AFTER Mark Judge graduated from Catholic University, he attended the rehearsal dinner for a close friend’s wedding in Washington, D.C. The dinner was in a private room above an Irish bar, and as soon as Judge arrived, he downed a shot of bourbon ...
America’s War Narrative Focuses on Its Soldiers. Afghans and Iraqis Are Brushed Aside
The Intercept
September 2, 2018
The young newspaper reporter wanted to write a book about the war he was covering. But the editors who read his proposal turned it down, all of them. They said the book wouldn’t sell because Americans were tired of reading about these violent foreigners ...
Before Snowden, an NSA Spy Incited Change from the Inside. He Called Himself a “Curmudgeon.”
The Intercept
Aug. 15, 2018
You know the type.
Middle-aged, male, tired of his job. He’s been around for ages and moans about how things were done 10 times better back in the day. Every so often, he snaps pointlessly at a co-worker. He’s the office curmudgeon. It’s time for him to go, and he probably ...