Eli Lake
Eli Lake | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1972 Philadelphia, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, podcast host |
| Known for | Senior national security correspondent at The Daily Beast and Newsweek; columnist at Bloomberg View; host of The Re-Education podcast |
Eli Jon Lake (born 1972) is a U.S.-based journalist and podcast host, who currently writes for The Free Press. His previous roles include serving as the senior national security correspondent at The Daily Beast and Newsweek, as well as a columnist position at Bloomberg View. Lake's work has also appeared on prominent platforms such as CNN, Fox, C-SPAN, Charlie Rose, the I Am Rapaport: Stereo Podcast, and Bloggingheads.tv.
Early life and education
Born in Philadelphia into a Jewish household, Lake completed his undergraduate studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1994.
Career
Lake's journalism career began with national security reporting for the New York Sun and as a correspondent covering the State Department for United Press International (UPI). From 2008 until 2013, he held the position of contributing editor at The New Republic. Subsequently, Lake joined The Daily Beast as Senior National Security Correspondent. In October 2014, he departed from The Daily Beast alongside Josh Rogin to become part of Bloomberg View, where his concluding column addressed U.S. foreign policy concerning Iran.
His reporting has faced scrutiny from critics such as Ken Silverstein, who questioned the reliability of Lake's sources and accused him of endorsing assertions about weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Silverstein also claimed that Lake's coverage on Georgia was influenced by pro-Georgian lobbying efforts; however, these allegations were contested by other media professionals.
In 2011, Lake disclosed that the Obama Administration authorized the sale of advanced bunker-buster munitions to Israel. The following year, while on assignment in Somalia, he revealed information regarding U.S. Navy detainees held in local detention centers and reported on purported breaches by the U.S. of an arms embargo within the region.
Together with Josh Rogin in 2013, Lake covered a story about a CIA interception indicating an alleged senior meeting of Al Qaeda conducted via conference call. Although this report attracted criticism over terminology inaccuracies, it underscored aspects of U.S. intelligence operations.
In March 2017, Lake cited House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes concerning intelligence documents related to the Trump transition team; however, he later admitted that Nunes had "misled" him about the origin of those reports, prompting questions regarding the impartiality of the investigation.
On April 21, 2022, Lake debuted his podcast titled The Re-Education with Eli Lake.
External links
- Collection of articles by Lake at The Free Press
- Eli Lake on Twitter
- Archive at Bloomberg View
- Archive at The Daily Beast
- Archive at the New York Sun
- Eli Lake Reddit AMA archive
- 1972 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American journalists
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American male journalists
- American male non-fiction writers
- American political commentators
- American political journalists
- American political writers
- American reporters and correspondents
- Bloomberg L.P. people
- Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy alumni
- Jewish American journalists
- Jewish American non-fiction writers
- The New York Sun people
- The Washington Times people