Between the Lines | The “Secret Weapon” That Isn’t: How A Washington Post "Exclusive" Turned Routine Process Into Authoritarian Theater

The Washington Post built a persecution narrative. Here's what they left out.

Let me be clear from the jump: administrative subpoena authority has a troubled history. It deserves scrutiny. It deserves oversight. It also deserves serious journalism.

This Washington Post article is not that.

What we have instead is classic narrative construction, a story that guides readers toward outrage through emotional sequencing, selective histo…