Devlin Barrett joins The New York Times

Devlin Barrett

We’re thrilled to announce that Devlin Barrett of The Washington Post is joining The New York Times to cover the Department of Justice and law enforcement.

Devlin has been a Justice and F.B.I. reporter for more than 20 years, and has been part of reporting teams at The Post that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2018 and 2022. In 2017 he was a co-finalist for the Pulitzers for Feature Writing and for International Reporting.

Devlin has most recently covered former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases and has been the co-author of The Post’s Trump Trials newsletter.

Devlin has a very long run of scoops. In 2022 he revealed that F.B.I. agents raided Mar-a-Lago partly in search of documents about nuclear secrets. He was the first to report that Robert Mueller’s investigation as special counsel had reached into the Trump White House, and the first to report that then-President Trump was under investigation for possible obstruction of justice.

After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Devlin broke the news that an F.B.I. office in Virginia had issued a dire warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” contradicting the F.B.I.’s prior claim that it had no intelligence predicting violence that day.

Devlin is also the author of the book “October Surprise: How the F.B.I. Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election.” Previously he worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and The New York Post.

Devlin grew up in Troy, N.Y., graduated from McGill University in Montreal.

He starts Oct. 7 in the Washington bureau, where he’ll join the incomparable Glenn Thrush and Adam Goldman on the Justice/F.B.I. beat. Please welcome him!