President Names U.S. Attorneys for Manhattan and Brooklyn: President Biden on Tuesday nominated Damian Williams as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Breon S. Peace as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Williams has been a prosecutor in the Manhattan office for nearly a decade, most recently overseeing a unit specializing in securities fraud. Both are African American.

For an Associated Press report on their nominations and several others, click HERE. To read the New York Times account, subscribers may click HERE.

Previous entries in this blog on a petition by the the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry to have a previous U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey S. Berman, report to a federal grand jury to evidence concerning federal crimes in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks not considered in official Executive Branch narratives can be found HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.

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* Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump has received a lot of attention in mainstream media outlets. For reviews in the New York Times and the Guardian (for which he once reported) and New York magazine, click HERE, HERE and HERE. The Intercept’s, HERE, includes an interview with Ackerman, a national security writer.

— Mark Channing Miller