Eli Lake | |
|---|---|
 Eli Lake in 2009 | |
| Born | Eli Jon Lake Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Eli Jon Lake (born 1972) is an American journalist, podcaster, former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek, and former columnist for the Bloomberg View. [1] [2] He has also contributed to CNN, [3] Fox, [4] C-SPAN, [5] Charlie Rose, [6] the I Am Rapaport: Stereo Podcast [7] and Bloggingheads.tv. [8]
Lake was born in Philadelphia [9] to a Jewish family and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1994. [10]
Lake began as a national security reporter at the New York Sun [11] and a State Department correspondent for United Press International (UPI). [12] He was a contributing editor for The New Republic between 2008 and 2013. [13] [14] Lake joined The Daily Beast following The New Republic as Senior National Security Correspondent. [15] Lake, along with his colleague, Josh Rogin, left The Daily Beast in October 2014 and joined Bloomberg View, at which his final column was about American foreign policy with Iran. [2] [16]
Ken Silverstein, one of Lake's primary critics, has claimed his past sources lacked credibility and had been used to manipulate the discourse on national security. Silverstein accused Lake's reporting of supporting the existence of weapons of mass destruction prior to the invasion of Iraq. Silverstein cited an article that Lake had written in 2006 during the war in Iraq. [17]
In 2011, at The Daily Beast, Lake reported that the Obama Administration sold Israel powerful bunker-buster bombs. [18] In 2012, while reporting from Somalia, Lake discovered a local prison that received Somalis captured by the U.S. Navy. Additionally, it was reported that the United Nations documented U.S. violations of an arms embargo in Somalia and its funding of some regional governments there. [19] [20] [21]
In 2011, Silverstein wrote an article for Salon claiming that Lake's reporting on Georgia was biased because pro-Georgian lobbyists had paid for his meals and drinks in the past. [22] This report was disputed by Ben Smith in Politico . [23] Silverstein implied that Lake's relationship with these lobbyists influenced his original report of a bomb blast near the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi. That story was confirmed by The New York Times . Both pieces came to the same conclusion that a Russian military intelligence officer was implicated by Georgian and U.S. authorities in the bombing. [24] [25] Lake has publicly stated he has always paid his tab whenever meeting with Georgian sources.[ importance? ] [22]
In August 2013, along with Josh Rogin, Lake reported on a Central Intelligence Agency intercept that claimed that Al Qaeda had a meeting of senior leaders in the form of a conference call. Silverstein criticized their work as misreporting for using the term "conference call" when a later article clarified the call as a remote meeting via internet video, voice conference, and chat. Speculation about the differences in the initial reports ranged from glorification of the National Security Agency's abilities to protection of sources within the U.S. intelligence community. [26]
In March 2017, Lake quoted House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes saying that an intelligence officer had shown him intelligence reports that allegedly included inappropriate details about the Trump transition team's communications. Lake later acknowledged that Nunes had "misled" him and that the reports had, in fact, been given to Nunes by a White House staffer, raising questions about whether Nunes's investigation was truly independent of the White House. [27]
Lake's podcast, "The Re-Education with Eli Lake," debuted on April 21, 2022.[ citation needed ]
Devin Gerald Nunes is an American businessman and politician who is chief executive officer of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). Before resigning from the House of Representatives and joining TMTG, Nunes was first the U.S. representative for California's 21st congressional district from 2003 to 2013, and then California's 22nd congressional district from 2013 to 2022.
Susan Elizabeth Rice is an American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official. As a member of the Democratic Party, Rice served as the 22nd Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council from 2021 to 2023, as the 27th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013, and as the 23rd U.S. National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2017.
Bloomberg Industry Group, Inc. is an affiliate of Bloomberg L.P. and a source of legal, tax, regulatory, and business news and information for professionals. It is headquartered in the Crystal City section of Arlington County, Virginia. The CEO of the company is Josh Eastright.
Daniel Gross is an American financial and economic journalist. He was the executive editor of strategy+business magazine from 2015 to January 2020 and was named editor-in-chief in February 2020.
The National Iranian American Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Washington, D.C. founded in 2002 to promote Iranian-American relations. The NIAC is known for its pro-Iranian advocacy.
The Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture. Founded in 2008, the website is owned by IAC Inc.
Politico, known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company. Founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007, it covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally, with publications dedicated to politics in the U.S., European Union, United Kingdom and Canada, among others. Primarily providing distributed news, analysis and opinion online, it also produces printed newspapers, radio, and podcasts. Its coverage focuses on topics such as the federal government, lobbying and the media.
Matt K. Lewis is an American conservative political writer, blogger, podcaster, and columnist for The Daily Beast, formerly with The Daily Caller, and has written for The Week. He has also appeared on CNN and MSNBC as a political commentator.
Nationwide public opinion polls that were conducted relating to the 2012 United States presidential election are as follows. The election was between Democratic Incumbent President Barack Obama, Republican Mitt Romney, as well as other third-party and independent challengers.
David Weigel is an American journalist. He works for Semafor. Weigel previously covered politics for The Washington Post,Slate, and Bloomberg Politics and is a contributing editor for Reason magazine.
The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) is the national intelligence agency of the Federal Republic of Somalia. It is headquartered in Mogadishu. The NISA is also closely intertwined with the Somali Armed Forces and regularly cooperates with them.
2 World Trade Center is a skyscraper being developed as part of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Manhattan, New York City. It will replace the original 2 World Trade Center, which was completed as part of the first World Trade Center in 1973 and subsequently destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001, and it will occupy the position of the original 5 World Trade Center. The foundation work was completed in 2013, though no construction has taken place since.
First Look Media is an American nonprofit media organization founded by Pierre Omidyar in October 2013 as a venue for "original, independent journalism". The project was started as a collaboration with Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras with a promised $250 million in funding from Omidyar. The organization announced plans to support multiple publications, the first of which was The Intercept, launched in February 2014.
Josh Rogin is an American journalist currently serving as a foreign policy columnist for the Global Opinions section of The Washington Post and a political analyst for CNN. He is author of the book Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century.
This is a timeline of major events in first half of 2018 related to the investigations into links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials and spies that are suspected of being inappropriate, relating to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It follows the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections before and after July 2016 up until election day November 8, the transition, and the first and second halves of 2017, but precedes the second half of 2018, the first and second halves of 2019, 2020, and 2021. These events are related to, but distinct from, Russian interference in the 2018 United States elections.
W. Samuel Patten is an American political consultant and lobbyist who received international attention in spring 2018 in relation to the Special Counsel investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller. This was due to Patten's relationship with Konstantin Kilimnik, a subject of the investigation. In summer 2018, attention intensified due to Patten's emergence as a subject of the investigation in his own right, followed by his guilty plea, after being charged in August 2018 with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act for failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department when he represented the Opposition Bloc, a Ukrainian political party, from 2014 through 2018.
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections was a matter of concern at the highest level of national security within the United States government, in addition to the computer and social media industries. In 2020, the RAND Corporation was one of the first to release research describing Russia's playbook for interfering in U.S. elections, developed machine-learning tools to detect the interference, and tested strategies to counter Russian interference. In February and August 2020, United States Intelligence Community (USIC) experts warned members of Congress that Russia was interfering in the 2020 presidential election in then-President Donald Trump's favor. USIC analysis released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in March 2021 found that proxies of Russian intelligence promoted and laundered misleading or unsubstantiated narratives about Joe Biden "to US media organizations, US officials, and prominent US individuals, including some close to former President Trump and his administration." The New York Times reported in May 2021 that federal investigators in Brooklyn began a criminal investigation late in the Trump administration into possible efforts by several current and former Ukrainian officials to spread unsubstantiated allegations about corruption by Joe Biden, including whether they had used Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani as a channel.
This is a timeline of major events in second half of 2018 related to the investigations into the many suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies relating to the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It follows the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections before and after July 2016 up until election day November 8, and the transition, the first and second halves of 2017, and the first half of 2018, but precedes that of the first and second halves of 2019, 2020, and 2021. These events are related to, but distinct from, Russian interference in the 2018 United States elections.
This is a timeline of major events in the second half of 2017 related to the investigations into the many suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies relating to the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It follows the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections before and after July 2016 up until election day November 8, the post-election transition, and the first half of 2017. The investigations continued in the first and second halves of 2018, the first and second halves of 2019, 2020, and 2021.