THEBLACKBOOK AUDIT

The New York Times

Our investigations stand on The New York Times' reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.

The reporting we cite

99 stories, each opening at its source.

Where their work appears on this site

How we graded the claims built on their work

98 FACT · 6 PROBABLY TRUE · 9 SOME SMOKE · 2 FALSE / MISLEADING. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

  1. 'Liberal': the biggest single outside spender was a billionaire vehicle — with a union asterisk.

    FACT
    Big Money Fighting for Control of the US Government →
  2. “Calling it genocide is antisemitic.”

    FALSE / MISLEADING
    The Deflection Playbook →
  3. $41 million, about a million a year: the Central Park / Exonerated Five (NYC).

    FACT
    The taxpayer bill: who actually pays for misconduct →
  4. 2. The DARPA Origin — the Policy Analysis Market (2001–2003)

    FACT
    Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
  5. 239 secret open-air tests, 1949–1969 — admitted to the Senate under oath.

    FACT
    When the Army Sprayed American Cities →
  6. 5. The Rothschild / Economist Coincidence

    FACT
    Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
  7. 8. The 2022 Predecessor — Chiliad, Carbyne, and Epstein-orbit prediction-market interest

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
  8. A Democratic legislator and a far-right activist ran parallel pressure campaigns against the same rally — and the venue dropped it.

    FACT
    The center converges with the right: a Democrat, Laura Loomer, and a canceled DSA rally →
  9. A health-insurance executive lent Thomas $267,230 for a luxury motorcoach in 1999 — and a Senate committee found the debt was largely forgiven and never disclosed.

    FACT
    Clarence Thomas's Benefactors →
  10. A man attacked worshippers at Central Synagogue on Shabbat and is charged, federally, with hate crimes.

    FACT
    The Wrong Villain →
  11. Advance / Newhouse local: extraction, not ideology

    FACT
    Media Ownership →
  12. After the towers fell, Silverstein argued the two strikes were two insured 'occurrences' — and the insurance fight ran for years.

    FACT
    The 9/11 Questions →
  13. Allen Dulles shields the CIA — the William Bundy defense, August 1953

    FACT
    The Dulles Blueprint →
  14. Anniston, Alabama — a $700 million PCB poisoning settlement

    FACT
    Monsanto's rap sheet: a $700M poisoning, a foreign bribe, and Agent Orange →
  15. Aviem Sella, indicted for recruiting Pollard, was never punished and was instead rewarded by Israel.

    FACT
    Jonathan Pollard: the largest documented US intelligence theft on behalf of a foreign ally →
  16. BCCI — the bank that made the doctrine liquid

    FACT
    The Dulles Blueprint →
  17. BCCI — the bank that ran the plumbing

    FACT
    Military Grift →
  18. Bush's Christmas Eve pardons

    FACT
    The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
  19. Changpeng Zhao (CZ) — Founder, Binance

    PROBABLY TRUE
    The Pardon Market →
  20. Chile and Japan: the US secretly funded parties in two democracies for years — and the Senate confirmed it.

    FACT
    The Ballot-Box Ledger →
  21. Chris Matthews compared Sanders’s Nevada win to the Nazi conquest of France — then apologized on air.

    FACT
    The Freakout →
  22. Clines, Secord, and Hakim: three different outcomes

    FACT
    The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
  23. Clinton nearly commuted Pollard's sentence at Wye River in 1998, and Tenet's resignation threat stopped it.

    FACT
    Jonathan Pollard: the largest documented US intelligence theft on behalf of a foreign ally →
  24. Cohn's Organized-Crime Client Roster

    FACT
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  25. Cohn's Rise: The Rosenberg Prosecution and the McCarthy Committee

    FACT
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  26. Cutter Biological: the HIV-risk clotting product Bayer kept selling overseas

    FACT
    Bayer's crimes: a plant beside Auschwitz and HIV-tainted blood shipped abroad →
  27. David Gentile — Founder and CEO, GPB Capital Holdings

    SOME SMOKE
    The Pardon Market →
  28. David Sacks — the $12 million fundraiser and the AI/Crypto Czar seat

    FACT
    The Pretoria Playbook →
  29. DHS ran at least two undercover operations against the Minnesota protest movement.

    FACT
    Operation Puppet Master: DHS undercover surveillance of Minnesota anti-ICE protesters →
  30. Documented: the Saudi sovereign fund put $2 billion into Kushner's firm after he left office — over its own panel's objections.

    FACT
    Princes and Thieves →
  31. DOJ acted in bad faith and misappropriated Inslaw's Enhanced PROMIS software

    FACT
    PROMIS and the Maxwell distribution: an intellectual-property theft, a suspect backdoor, and a media baron with intelligence ties →
  32. DOJ missed the December 19, 2025 deadline

    FACT
    The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
  33. Epstein's own project was eugenics, dressed as philanthropy.

    FACT
    The Eugenicist in the Room →
  34. Executive Order 14338

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →
  35. From 2018, Netanyahu's government allowed millions in Qatari cash to flow into Gaza.

    FACT
    How Netanyahu Kept Hamas in Power →
  36. From Airbnb to DOGE to NDS

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →
  37. He planned to 'seed the human race' with his DNA — twenty women at a time, at Zorro Ranch.

    FACT
    The Blue-Eyed Files →
  38. He was convicted of seven felonies in 2019 for obstructing the Russia inquiry to protect Trump.

    FACT
    Roger Stone: the method made flesh. →
  39. Herrera was charged with bribing Puerto Rico's governor, pleaded to a misdemeanor, and was then pardoned.

    FACT
    The $50 Million General Counsel →
  40. His daughter guaranteed Alina Habba — a sitting DOJ adviser — more than $50 million to run a company she'd just created.

    FACT
    The $50 Million General Counsel →
  41. Historical Mossad / LCN / US-intel linkages

    SOME SMOKE
    Israeli Influence on the United States →
  42. Hoover publicly designated the Black Panther Party ‘the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.’

    FACT
    COINTELPRO and the Breakfast Program: the FBI’s war on the Black Panthers’ Survival Programs →
  43. Hundreds of US bases are their own local contamination sites — by the Pentagon's own count.

    FACT
    The War Machine's Toxic Footprint →
  44. In Chicago, the Panthers built the original ‘Rainbow Coalition’ across racial and class lines.

    FACT
    COINTELPRO and the Breakfast Program: the FBI’s war on the Black Panthers’ Survival Programs →
  45. Instead, park entrance fees are helping fund Trump's Washington projects — the NYT documented at least $67 million.

    FACT
    The Parks Raid →
  46. Is US Ukraine policy being bent to enrich the negotiators' associates? That's the question we pose.

    SOME SMOKE
    The Deal Inside the Deal →
  47. It extends a 2026 surge: about $6.67 billion in arms sales approved in January and roughly $2.7 billion in February.

    FACT
    $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →
  48. It fits a documented pattern: a 'pardon industry' in Trump's second term.

    FACT
    The $50 Million General Counsel →
  49. It lands on top of a documented record of pre-Oct-7 warnings that went unheeded.

    FACT
    The Warning He Didn't Pass On →
  50. It was a whole worldview — down to freezing himself to outlast death.

    FACT
    The Blue-Eyed Files →
  51. Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump

    FACT
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  52. Jeffrey Epstein's adoption of the Roy Cohn method

    SOME SMOKE
    The Roy Cohn Method →
  53. John J. McCloy — the man who released Krupp and then sat on the Warren Commission

    FACT
    The Dulles Blueprint →
  54. John Poindexter — the Information Awareness Office

    FACT
    Military Grift →
  55. Leonard Leo — 'barbarians, secularists and bigots' under 'the influence of the devil'

    FACT
    A Distinction Without Separation →
  56. Leslie Wexner as the documented source of Jeffrey Epstein's wealth

    FACT
    Leslie Wexner →
  57. Netanyahu's own words — 2001 New York Times, 2002 Congress, 2008 Bar-Ilan

    FACT
    Israeli Influence on the United States →
  58. Operation CHAOS was shut down in 1974 and exposed by Seymour Hersh

    FACT
    MHCHAOS: the CIA's illegal domestic surveillance program, 1967 to 1974 →
  59. Paul Walczak — nursing home executive

    FACT
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  60. Peter Thiel — the Vance pipeline and the Yarvin consultation

    FACT
    The Pretoria Playbook →
  61. Reagan formalizes — the treaty and trade architecture (1981–1987)

    FACT
    Israeli Influence on the United States →
  62. Reid Hoffman — the counter-example, and the DOJ scrutiny

    FACT
    Surveillance States →
  63. Roy Cohn as Trump's Mentor and Fixer (1973–1986)

    FACT
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  64. S.I. Newhouse Jr. — the Condé Nast alignment

    FACT
    The Roy Cohn Method →
  65. Sacks and Craft Ventures — the self-benefiting reporting

    FACT
    Surveillance States →
  66. Saxe Bacon & Bolan, 39 East 68th Street

    FACT
    The Roy Cohn Method →
  67. Searchlight is a $10M 'centrist' Democratic think tank founded in 2025 to pull the party toward the middle.

    FACT
    The Searchlight and the Shareholder: The 'Moderate' Democratic Think Tank Funded by Nvidia Money →
  68. She started January 1. Weeks later, the pardon came through.

    FACT
    The $50 Million General Counsel →
  69. The $10,000 condo stake: a masked multimillion-dollar gift.

    FACT
    The Small Loan →
  70. The $2.3B / $2.3B Symmetry — Reuters' crypto profits investigation

    FACT
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  71. The $916 million loss — legal to use, devastating to the legend.

    FACT
    The $750 President →
  72. The $TRUMP Memecoin Dinner

    FACT
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  73. The 1960 Cohn Commission found forgery and perjury, and cleared Lavon

    FACT
    The Lavon Affair: Operation Susannah and the Israeli false-flag campaign in Egypt →
  74. The 1964 King 'suicide letter' (unredacted, released 2014)

    FACT
    Sowing Division →
  75. The 1985 introduction and the ascent

    FACT
    Leslie Wexner →
  76. The Barr family arc — enforcement, continued

    SOME SMOKE
    The Roy Cohn Method →
  77. The Black Panther Party ran a national network of community ‘Survival Programs,’ anchored by the Free Breakfast for Children Program.

    FACT
    COINTELPRO and the Breakfast Program: the FBI’s war on the Black Panthers’ Survival Programs →
  78. The bottom line: more than $1 billion moved, roughly half a billion in taxes dodged.

    FACT
    The Small Loan →
  79. The deal would benefit business figures tied to the negotiators — and reportedly a Trump donor.

    FACT
    The Deal Inside the Deal →
  80. The death of Robert Maxwell, November 5, 1991

    FACT
    Leslie Wexner →
  81. The event was a DSA-aligned rally for candidates challenging Jewish Democratic incumbents, headlined by Tlaib.

    FACT
    The center converges with the right: a Democrat, Laura Loomer, and a canceled DSA rally →
  82. The fight ran more than five years and settled in 2007 at $4.55 billion.

    FACT
    The 9/11 Questions →
  83. The Grand Hyatt / Commodore deal and the $160 million tax abatement

    FACT
    The Roy Cohn Method →
  84. The Hersh December 22, 1974 New York Times investigation

    FACT
    CIA Crimes →
  85. The insurance proceeds specifically were tied to rebuilding — but that is not the same as saying he didn't come out ahead.

    FACT
    The 9/11 Questions →
  86. The investigation exists, and its sourcing is heavy.

    FACT
    Shielding Israel From Washington →
  87. The July 3, 2026 Batch — Pattern data point

    FACT
    The Pardon Market →
  88. The man: Gadi Eisenkot, former IDF chief, is the front-runner to be Israel's next prime minister.

    FACT
    A Plan That Has Been Approved →
  89. The Method Trump Inherited

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  90. The motive: 'seed the human race.'

    FACT
    The Philanthropist of the Future →
  91. The myth: a 'small loan of a million dollars' — false.

    FALSE / MISLEADING
    The Small Loan →
  92. The New York Times has now corroborated the warning from meeting minutes — while reporting it 'lacked specific details.'

    FACT
    The Warning He Didn't Pass On →
  93. The New York Times itself framed it as a conflict of interest — 'striking even for' this administration.

    FACT
    The Deal Inside the Deal →
  94. The New York Times master-database story and Palantir's rebuttal

    SOME SMOKE
    Surveillance States →
  95. The Nixon-Meir deal — the last piece of Dimona pressure ends (1969)

    FACT
    Israeli Influence on the United States →
  96. The October 1980 Paris meeting — what de Marenches told his biographer

    SOME SMOKE
    The Dulles Blueprint →
  97. The Olshan-Dori Commission could not determine who gave the order

    FACT
    The Lavon Affair: Operation Susannah and the Israeli false-flag campaign in Egypt →
  98. The operations ran under a September 2025 directive expanding the definition of domestic terrorism.

    FACT
    Operation Puppet Master: DHS undercover surveillance of Minnesota anti-ICE protesters →
  99. The parallel — CNE's program and the 2024–2026 American program, side by side

    PROBABLY TRUE
    The Pretoria Playbook →
  100. The Próspera model made real: after the U.S. toppled Maduro, the charter-city movement moved to build a Venezuela 'Freedom City' it had war-gamed since 2019.

    FACT
    Sovereignty for Sale →
  101. The Shackley / Wilson ‘private CIA’ — the pre-Enterprise pattern

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Military Grift →
  102. The sham company: All County Building Supply.

    FACT
    The Small Loan →
  103. The three Ecuadorian strikes may be a separate, covert CIA program — not Operation Southern Spear.

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Execution at Sea →
  104. The Trump administration approved a $2.8 billion sale of heavy bombs to Israel and informally notified Congress on September 15, 2026.

    FACT
    $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →
  105. The United States armed, trained, and financed those forces — and a U.S. president apologized for it.

    FACT
    The Guatemalan Genocide →
  106. These are the munitions independently documented killing civilians in Gaza — including in the areas declared 'safe.'

    FACT
    $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →
  107. Third Way is building a standing ‘Anti-Extremism’ project against the Democratic left.

    FACT
    The Fake Opposition: the rented center and the Democrats who rescue the GOP. →
  108. Trump's Ukraine negotiators are Kushner and Witkoff — and Putin folded a Russian energy deal into the talks.

    FACT
    The Deal Inside the Deal →
  109. Two flags associated with 'Stop the Steal' flew at Alito's homes — and he refused to recuse from the January 6 cases.

    FACT
    Samuel Alito's Benefactor →
  110. Two Republican governors pushed to sell the towers off — and a Port Authority-commissioned study said a sale was feasible.

    FACT
    The 9/11 Questions →
  111. Unusual Machines — the Army drone motor contract

    FACT
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  112. Victoria’s Secret, Bath & Body Works, and the L Brands empire

    FACT
    Leslie Wexner →
  113. Was the pardon bought? That's the question the sequence forces — and every principal denies it.

    SOME SMOKE
    The $50 Million General Counsel →
  114. What the record establishes about Yugoslavia — a boundary note

    SOME SMOKE
    Sowing Division →
  115. What Trump took from Cohn

    FACT
    The Roy Cohn Method →