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Founding editor SpyTalk.co. Longtime natsec reporter. Pvsly Newsweek, WaPo, founding editor CQ/Homeland Security, dep foreign news editor UPI. Tips welcome via Signal 202-812-3034, or [email protected] and Twitter @talk_spy and @spytalker.
Michael Isikoff is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author who has reported for The Washington Post, Newsweek, NBC News and Yahoo News. He is now a contributing editor to SpyTalk.
Peter Eisner a, contributing editor to SpyTalk, is an award-winning reporter and author, formerly at The Washington Post, Newsday, and the Associated Press.
Long time inland lake sailor. Favorite all time boat is the C Skow on Lake Okoboji.
Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer who specialised in security and intelligence affairs. He is co-author of Spies Against Armageddon.
Future Security Fellow, New America. Author of "Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump" and "Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State."
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