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Jeff Stein, Michael Isikoff, Tomás Dinges, Peter Eisner, Bob Drogin, Yossi MelmanIntelligence for Thinking People
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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.
Tomás Dinges covered the military and breaking news while at The Star-Ledger newspaper, and has published for a range of publications in the US and Chile. He was a fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University.
Peter Eisner a, contributing editor to SpyTalk, is an award-winning reporter and author, formerly at The Washington Post, Newsday, and the Associated Press.
I covered national security and intelligence for the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times for over a decade.
Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer who specialised in security and intelligence affairs. He is co-author of Spies Against Armageddon.
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