NBC News Correspondent Pete Williams to Retire After 3 Decades of Covering Justice Department
thewrap.comThe Washington Post first reported Thursday. NBC News did not immediately return messages seeking confirmation.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 – who was not pleased that news had gotten out (for the record, Williams was not involved in the internal leak of the Court’s Roe v.
Wade draft decision, which POLITICO first reported).Williams’ retirement was announced Thursday morning by NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, WSJ reported.
Mediate confirmed the news and obtained NBC’s internal memo.“Pete has been one of the nation’s foremost authorities covering the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice for nearly three decades,” Oppenheim wrote, according to Mediaite. “His career has been defined by his reputation for accuracy, reliability, and unmatched expertise in the subjects he covers.”Williams was born in Wyoming, where he got his start as a writer and news director before becoming a Pentagon spokesperson under Dick Cheney.
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