Eli Lake
| Eli Lake | |
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| Born |
Eli Lake July 9, 1972 Philadelphia |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Eli Lake (born July 9, 1972 in Philadelphia ), is an American journalist and the former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Currently, he is a columnist for the Bloomberg View. He has also contributed to CNN,Fox,CSPAN,Charlie Rose, the I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST and Bloggingheads.tv. He is known for his correspondence from both the US and abroad, including such war zones as Sudan, Iraq, and Gaza.
Lake was born to a Jewish family and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1994.
Lake began as national security reporter at the New York Sun and as State Department correspondent for United Press International.
In 2009, Lake reported extensively on Obama’s delicate discussions with Israel over its nuclear program. Later that year, Lake’s reporting also helped to scuttle the nomination of Chas Freeman be the chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
In 2011 at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Lake broke an exclusive report on how the Obama administration sold Israel powerful bunker buster bombs.
In 2012, reporting from Somalia, Lake found a local prison that received Somalis captured by the U.S. Navy and later disclosed how the United Nations documented U.S. violations of an arms embargo in Somalia to funding some of the regional governments there.
Lake was one of the first reporter to challenge the Obama administration’s initial claims in 2012 that the 9-11 anniversary attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi was not connected to al Qaeda. His reporting earned praise from both conservatives and liberals.
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