{"id":101566,"date":"2022-05-22T21:56:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/pete-williams-to-retire-from-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2022-05-22T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T16:26:07","slug":"pete-williams-to-retire-from-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/pete-williams-to-retire-from-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Williams to Retire From NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Supreme Court\u2019s fragile secrets are a little safer now that Pete Williams is hanging up the keyboard.<\/p>\n

Williams, who covered the Court and Justice Department during his 29 years at NBC News, is retiring at the end of July, The Washington Post<\/a> first reported Thursday. NBC News did not immediately return messages seeking confirmation.<\/p>\n

If something happened at SCOTUS or DOJ and you heard about it, Williams probably heard about it first. He broke big stories by the dozen, most recently being the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer \u2013 who was not pleased that news had gotten out (for the record, Williams was not involved in the internal leak of the Court\u2019s Roe v. Wade draft decision, which POLITICO first reported).<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 retirement was announced Thursday morning by NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, WSJ reported. Mediate<\/a> confirmed the news and obtained NBC\u2019s internal memo.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPete has been one of the nation\u2019s foremost authorities covering the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice for nearly three decades,\u201d Oppenheim wrote, according to Mediaite. \u201cHis career has been defined by his reputation for accuracy, reliability, and unmatched expertise in the subjects he covers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams was born in Wyoming, where he got his start as a writer and news director before becoming a Pentagon spokesperson under Dick Cheney. Beyond being a bloodhound journalist, Williams spent countless hours on camera discussing and analyzing nearly every big case that\u2019s come through the courts and beyond.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the most consequential Supreme Court cases of our time \u2013 like marriage equality and the legal battles over the Affordable Care Act \u2013 to major breaking news events \u2013 like 9\/11, the Boston Marathon bombing, and so much more \u2013 Pete\u2019s reporting has always been ironclad. His ability to break down the most complex and fast-developing situations is uncanny,\u201d Oppenheim wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court\u2019s fragile secrets are a little safer now that Pete Williams is hanging up the keyboard. Williams, who covered the Court and Justice Department during his 29 years at NBC News, is retiring at the end of July, The Washington Post first reported Thursday. NBC News did not immediately return messages seeking confirmation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":101567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1653236768_Pete-Williams-to-Retire-From-NBC-News.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}