11 Apr 2023

USA correspondent Ximena Bustillo

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 11 April 2023

Ximena talks to Susie Ferguson about the recent leak of secret US defense documents, said to be Washington's most comprehensive security breach in years.

Also what former US President Donald Trump has been up to since his indictment last week, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under fire after a ProPublica investigation found he had accepted luxury vacations from a GOP billionaire donor. 

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 7, 2022 US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poses for the official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. - Thomas defended himself on April 7, 2023 over accusations that he accepted years of luxury travel trips from a Republican billionaire, saying that it was "personal hospitality" that did not need to be registered. Staunch conservative Thomas was a guest of megadonor Harlan Crow for yachting in New Zealand, private jet flights across the globe and regular stays at Crow's properties in the United States, the ProPublica news outlet reported. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP)

Photo: AFP / Olivier Douliery

Ximena Bustillo is an NPR politics reporter based in Washington

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