How I Beat a Trump Official's Nasty Lawsuit

Keith Bass, former head of the CIA’s Medical Office, sued me for a million bucks. Substack's Defender program came to my aid.

There’s theory, and practice. One theory is that frivolous law suits are easily dismissed. When you’re the victim of a flimsy defamation suit, however, the reality is that practice is hard. For an independent journalist, like so many of us today, it’s not easy at all.

So it began with me one day this past January, when a process server showed up on my fr…