Here’s his bio ... he seems focused on J6 and Butler attempt ... and, interesting how he’s received THREE Pulitzers all in 2025 ... and, odd how it says he received a 2022 Pulitzer ... for coverage of the J6 ‘attack’. Is there another J6 (in 2022) that I’m not aware of?
Alex Horton
Washington, D.C.
National security reporter focused on the U.S. military. Send him secure tips on Signal at alexhorton.85
Alex Horton is a national security reporter for The Washington Post focused on the U.S. military. He has reported from around the world, including Ukraine’s front lines, Afghanistan and the Arctic.
He previously served in Iraq as an Army infantryman. Alex has shared three Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2025.
Honors and Awards: 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, awarded for team coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump; 2024 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, awarded for team coverage of the AR-15’s cultural impact;
2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded for team coverage of the Jan 6. Capitol attack
Maybe they are trying to be subtle since their associate Nakashima has a reputation as a key Russia hoaxer.
January 23: Another important criminal leak was given to Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller of the Washington Post, also based on criminal leaks. Their article, headlined “FBI reviewed Flynn’s calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit,” was intended to make Flynn feel safe and put him at ease about the FBI stance on those calls the day before they planned to ambush him in an interview. The article was used to publicize false information when it said, “Although Flynn’s contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were listened to, Flynn himself is not the active target of an investigation, U.S. officials said.” In fact, emails prior to this date confirm Flynn was their prime target. This article was later cited by McCabe as the reason why they were justified in concealing from Flynn the real purpose of their interview. Flynn later asked McCabe if he knew how all the information about his phone calls had been made public and whether it had been leaked. Any potential response from McCabe to Flynn has been redacted from his own notes about the conversation.
January 24: Comey later admitted he broke every protocol to send agents to interview Flynn and try to catch him in a lie. FBI officials strategized how to keep Flynn from knowing he was a target of the investigation or asking for an attorney to represent him in the interview. The January 23 Washington Post article, which falsely stated that Flynn was not an FBI target, was key to that strategy. Though the interviewing agents said they could detect no “tells” indicating he lied, and he carefully phrased everything in the interview, he later was induced to plead guilty to lying in this interview. Ostensibly because White House officials downplayed the Kislyak phone calls, presumably in light of what Flynn had told them about the calls, Yates would go to the White House the next day and insinuate Flynn should probably be fired.
February 9: The strategy to get Flynn fired didn’t immediately work so another leak was deployed to Greg Miller, Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post. That article, headline “National security adviser Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador, despite denials, officials say,” was sourced to people who happened to share senior FBI leadership’s views on the Logan Act. This article was also based on criminal leaks of top secret information of phone call intercepts and laid out the FBI’s case for why Flynn’s contacts with a foreign adversary were a problem. The fact that such phone calls are routine, not to mention Flynn’s case that improved relations with Russia in a world where China, North Korea, and Iran were posing increasing threats, never made it into these articles for context.
February 13: The operation finally succeeded in getting Flynn fired and rendering him unable to review the operations against the Trump campaign, Trump transition team, and Trump administration.