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Eli Lake
Eli Lake in 2009
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Eli Jon Lake

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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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]

Early life and education

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Lake was born in Philadelphia[9] to a Jewish family and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1994.[10]

Career

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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,[according to whom?] 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[by whom?] 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]

References

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  1. ^ Byers, Dylan (October 30, 2014). "Eli Lake, Josh Rogin join Bloomberg View". Politico. Archived from the original on May 8, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Eli Lake - Bloomberg". Bloomberg.com. 2021-12-30. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  3. ^ "Breaking News, Latest News and Videos - CNN". CNN. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
  4. ^ "Eli Lake". 21 December 2017. Archived from the original on 3 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Eli Lake - Search - C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
  6. ^ TV.com. "Charlie Rose: Juan Manuel Santos Calderon; Kenya Attack; Dexter Filkins". TV.com. Archived from the original on 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
  7. ^ "EP 505 - Warren Sapp (NFL Champ/HOF) + DUKE 2018 vs THE FAB FIVE/NBA MEDIA SKINNYJEANIFICATION/GOING VIRAL WITH WILFRED THE CAT/SICK F*CKS OF THE WEEK from I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST". www.stitcher.com. Archived from the original on 2024-09-03. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  8. ^ "Bloggingheads.tv". bloggingheads.tv. Archived from the original on 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  9. ^ Rothstein, Betsy (July 23, 2010). "The FishbowlDC Interview With TWT's Eli Lake". Fishbowl DC. Archived from the original on October 26, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
  10. ^ "Succeeding: Eli Lake '94". Mosaic. Trinity College. May 2002. Archived from the original on September 9, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  11. ^ "Eli Lake - Archive - The New York Sun". The New York Sun. Archived from the original on 2009-05-13. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
  12. ^ Host: John Ydstie (September 18, 2002). "Interview: Eli Lake Discusses His Article In The New Republic About The Fact That The Bush Administration Is Getting Competing Intelligence Reports On Iraq That May Be Confusing The Situation". All Things Considered. NPR.
  13. ^ Peretz, Marty (April 13, 2009). "What Hersh Giveth, Lake Taketh Away". The New Republic. Archived from the original on October 5, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  14. ^ "Eli Lake". The New Republic. Archived from the original on September 3, 2024. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
  15. ^ Hagey, Keach (September 7, 2011). "Eli Lake to Newsweek/Daily Beast". Politico.
  16. ^ Calderone, Michael (October 20, 2014). "Eli Lake and Josh Rogin leaving the Daily Beast, Expected to Join Bloomberg View". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on January 31, 2015. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
  17. ^ Silverstein, Ken (August 15, 2013). "Anatomy of an Al Qaeda 'Conference Call'". Harper's Magazine. Archived from the original on August 20, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  18. ^ Host: Guy Raz (September 24, 2011). "U.S. Sells Bunker Busters To Israel". All Things Considered. NPR. Archived from the original on August 13, 2018. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  19. ^ Lake, Eli (June 27, 2012). "Somalia's Prisons: The War on Terror's Latest Front". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on September 3, 2024. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
  20. ^ Greenwald, Abe (June 29, 2012). "Obama Sends Terrorists to Sub-Gitmo Hell". Commentary Magazine. Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
  21. ^ Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists, July 24, 2012, archived from the original on March 3, 2016, retrieved May 14, 2016
  22. ^ a b Silverstein, Ken (October 5, 2011). "Neoconservatives hype a new Cold War". Salon. Archived from the original on August 20, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  23. ^ Smith, Ben (October 5, 2011). "The Nefarious Georgia Lobby". Politico.
  24. ^ Lake, Eli (July 21, 2011). "Russian agent linked to U.S. Embassy blast". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on January 22, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
  25. ^ "U.S. Ties a Russian to Bombings in Georgia". The New York Times. July 28, 2011. Archived from the original on September 3, 2024. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  26. ^ Trotter, J.K. (August 7, 2013). "Did the CIA Just Run an Intel Operation on the Daily Beast?". Gawker. Archived from the original on August 10, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  27. ^ Weber, Peter (March 31, 2017). "Devin Nunes burned columnist Eli Lake on his Trump surveillance sources. Lake just fired back". The Week.
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