Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]
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Watching Ambassador Sondland provide testimony that is devastating to Trump

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Gordon Sondland is smiling and confident looking right now but today is going to be brutal for him, I []

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Scientology leader David Miscavige: Screw your lawsuit, you didn’t serve me properly

[David Miscavige: Catch me if you can]

In a classic case of Scientology legal calisthenics, David Miscavige’s attorneys have informed the Los Angeles Superior Court that it is moving to quash Miscavige’s participation as a defendant in a lawsuit filed August 22, claiming that notice of the lawsuit wasn’t served on the Scientology leader []

More witnesses make the case for impeachment, even when they’re trying not to

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Catching up on impeachment stuff. I missed Vindman and Williams entirely this morning but have been watching Volker and Morrison, who are the first witnesses to appear that were requested by Republican Committee members. Each of them made the Democrats’ case, despite []

Nan McLean, 1923-2019: One of the bravest women who ever exposed Scientology’s abuses

[Nan with Jon Atack in Toronto in 2015]

Last night, we learned from Nan McLean’s granddaughter Phaedra Fairwell that Nan, a veteran of vicious Fair Game attacks after leaving Scientology and going public in the 1970s, died yesterday at Southlake Regional Hospital in Newmarket, Ontario. She was 96 years []

Country may be tired of Mueller report, but the House is right to look into Trump’s lies

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: House investigating whether Trump lied to Mueller]

One of the disappointments about Mueller’s report was how willing he was to accept Trump’s failure to cooperate. The conversation would likely be very different now had they subpoenaed him, which they had []

VIDEO: Jehovah’s Witnesses are told that ‘murmuring’ is of the devil

The new video from ex-JW advocate Lloyd Evans sounds like a fun one. Here’s his []

SCIENTOLOGY DOCUMENT LEAKS: Stunning new revelations span the 1960s to 2017

 Some time ago, we were fortunate to get access to new documents about Scientology released by the FBI to dogged Freedom of Information Act journalist Emma Best and the Muckrock []

Scientology’s sleep cures are enough to keep you up at night

 The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has a new article on its blog that deserves comment. CCHR has a harder time than other Scientology front groups who can keep their writings based on some truth in their chosen issue. Foundation for a Drug Free World can write truthfully about how using illegal drugs is []

Scientology banned his book and trashed him as an apostate. Here’s his full-throated reply!

 Last Saturday, we had fun posting a 1995 Scientology bulletin that banned Scientologists from reading the 1989 ancient aliens book The Gods of Eden and warned against interacting with its author, former church member William Bramley. In our comments section, Bramley reached out to us and said he was interested in answering Scientology’s criticisms of []

Day 2 of the Impeachment Inquiry: Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Marie Yovanovitch testimony today: will follow here while I []