Eli Lake
Eli Lake in 2009
Born
Eli Jon Lake

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Eli Jon Lake 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

Lake was born in Philadelphia[9] to a Jewish family[10] and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1994.[11]

Career

Lake began as national security reporter at the New York Sun[12] and as State Department correspondent for United Press International (UPI).[13] He was a contributing editor for The New Republic between 2008 and 2013.[14][15] Lake joined The Daily Beast following The New Republic as Senior National Security Correspondent.[16] Lake along with his colleague Josh Rogin left The Daily Beast in October 2014 and joined Bloomberg View, where his last published column was about American foreign policy with Iran[2][17]

Ken Silverstein, one of Lake's primary critics, has claimed his past sources lacked credibility and been used to manipulate the discourse on national security. Silverstein accused Lake's reporting of supporting the existence of WMDs prior to the invasion of Iraq. Silverstein cited an article that Lake had written in 2006 during the war in Iraq.[18]

In 2011 at The Daily Beast, Lake reported that the Obama administration sold Israel powerful bunker buster bombs.[19] In 2012, reporting from Somalia, Lake found a local prison that received Somalis captured by the U.S. Navy and later reported that the United Nations documented U.S. violations of an arms embargo in Somalia to funding some of the regional governments there.[20][21][22]

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.[23] This report was disputed by Ben Smith in Politico.[24] 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 come to the same conclusion that a Russian military intelligence officer was implicated by Georgian and U.S. authorities in the bombing.[25][26] Lake has publicly stated he has always paid his tab whenever meeting with Georgian sources.[23]

In August 2013, along with Josh Rogin, Lake reported on a CIA 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 to the differences in the initial reports ranged from glorification of the NSA's abilities to protection of sources within the U.S. intelligence community.[27]

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' investigation was truly independent of the White House.[28]

Lake's podcast, "The Re-Education with Eli Lake," debuted on April 21, 2022 with an episode titled "The War on Comedy."

References

  1. ↑ Byers, Dylan (October 30, 2014). "Eli Lake, Josh Rogin join Bloomberg View". Politico. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Eli Lake - Bloomberg". Bloomberg.com. 2021-12-30. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  3. ↑ "Breaking News, Latest News and Videos - CNN". CNN.
  4. ↑ "Eli Lake". 21 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Eli Lake - Search - C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
  6. ↑ TV.com. "Charlie Rose: Juan Manuel Santos Calderon; Kenya Attack; Dexter Filkins". TV.com.
  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.
  8. ↑ "Bloggingheads.tv". bloggingheads.tv.
  9. ↑ Rothstein, Betsy (July 23, 2010). "The FishbowlDC Interview With TWT's Eli Lake". Fishbowl DC. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
  10. ↑ Washington Free Beacon: "Hughes Drops Jews" January 28, 2013
  11. ↑ "Succeeding: Eli Lake '94". Mosaic. Trinity College. May 2002. Archived from the original on September 9, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Eli Lake - Archive - The New York Sun". The New York Sun.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ Peretz, Marty (April 13, 2009). "What Hersh Giveth, Lake Taketh Away". The New Republic.
  15. ↑ "Eli Lake". The New Republic. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
  16. ↑ Hagey, Keach (September 7, 2011). "Eli Lake to Newsweek/Daily Beast". Politico.
  17. ↑ Calderone, Michael (October 20, 2014). "Eli Lake and Josh Rogin leaving the Daily Beast, Expected to Join Bloomberg View". Huffington Post.
  18. ↑ Silverstein, Ken (August 15, 2013). "Anatomy of an Al Qaeda 'Conference Call'". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  19. ↑ Host: Guy Raz (September 24, 2011). "U.S. Sells Bunker Busters To Israel". All Things Considered. NPR.
  20. ↑ Lake, Eli (June 27, 2012). "Somalia's Prisons: The War on Terror's Latest Front". The Daily Beast.
  21. ↑ Greenwald, Abe (June 29, 2012). "Obama Sends Terrorists to Sub-Gitmo Hell". Commentary Magazine.
  22. ↑ Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists, July 24, 2012
  23. 1 2 Silverstein, Ken (October 5, 2011). "Neoconservatives hype a new Cold War". Salon. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  24. ↑ Smith, Ben (October 5, 2011). "The Nefarious Georgia Lobby". Politico.
  25. ↑ Lake, Eli (July 21, 2011). "Russian agent linked to U.S. Embassy blast". The Washington Times.
  26. ↑ "U.S. Ties a Russian to Bombings in Georgia". The New York Times. July 28, 2011.
  27. ↑ 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.
  28. ↑ 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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