"Mattathias Schwartz is a contributing writer for the magazine and a former staff writer at The New Yorker, where he won the Livingston Award for international reporting. His last feature for the magazine was about the former C.I.A. director John Brennan."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/magazine/john-brennan-president-trump-national-security-state.html

"He quietly ruled the national-security state under President Obama. Now he’s coming forward to rail against Trump — and to defend his own legacy."

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"While Trump’s theories surrounding the election are half-baked demagogy, he has reason to be preoccupied with Brennan. As Obama’s C.I.A. director, Brennan would have read the top-secret reports supporting the intelligence community’s public conclusion that Vladimir Putin favored Trump and sought to manipulate American voters to elect him. According to The Guardian, Brennan received early intelligence tips from his British counterparts about suspicious contacts between Russia and Trump’s campaign. In summer 2016, he shared that intelligence with the F.B.I. director at the time, James Comey, just as the bureau’s investigation was getting underway."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/magazine/john-brennan-president-trump-national-security-state.html

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Mattathias Schwartz appears to be a Brennan protector/projecor.