Devlin Barrett 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.

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

Barrett 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, Barrett 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.

Barrett 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.

Barrett briefed National Press Foundation fellows in March 2024: Justice Dept ‘Has Never Been Less Covered.’ A Justice Reporter Explains. He also briefed NPF fellows in March 2025: “Journalists Are Where the Accountability Needs to Happen”: How to Cover the DOJ.