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Jason Leopold
Jason Leopold on RT America in March 2012
Born
October 7, 1969
Nationality
American
Occupation
Journalist
Jason Arthur Leopold (born October 7, 1969)[1] is an American senior investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News.[2] He was previously an investigative reporter for Al Jazeera America[3] and Vice News.[4] He worked at Truthout as a senior editor and reporter, a position he left after three years on February 19, 2008, to co-found the web-based political magazine The Public Record, Leopold's profile page on The Public Record now says he is Editor-at-Large.[5] Leopold returned to Truthout as Deputy Managing Editor in October 2009 and was made lead investigative reporter in 2012[6] before leaving Truthout in May 2013.[7] He makes extensive use of the Freedom of Information Act to research stories.[8]
Leopold was the journalist who forced the release of all of Hillary Clinton's emails through the Freedom of Information Act. He was identified by the Transactional Access Clearinghouse as "by far the most active individual FOIA litigator in the United States today."[9] He has written stories on a many subjects including in the past decades on BP, Enron, the California Energy Crisis, the Bush administration's torture policies, and the Plame affair. His pieces have been published in The Guardian,[10]Asia Times,[11] the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBS MarketWatch,[12][13][14]The Nation, and Utne Reader. He has also written about foreign and domestic policy online for publications such as The Guardian,[10]Alternet, CounterPunch, Common Dreams, The Huffington Post, Political Affairs Magazine, The Raw Story, Scoop, ZNet and others.
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^Gold, Hadas (August 14, 2014). "Vice News hires Jason Leopold". POLITICO. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
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^"About Truthout". truthout.org. May 31, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
^"The Man The Government Calls a 'FOIA Terrorist' | On the Media". WNYC Studios. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
^"When FOIA Goes to Court: 20 Years of Freedom of Information Act Litigation by News Organizations and Reporters | The FOIA Project".
^ ab"Jason Leopold - The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
^"Prince of Darkness: Deals in the Shadows". atimes.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2003. Retrieved August 10, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^"Enron linked to California blackouts". MarkertWatch - Jason Leopold. May 16, 2002. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
^"Boy's Death Prompts Cities to Check Safety of Concrete Benches". The LA times - Jason Leopold. January 21, 1999.
^"Bill Simon's tangled Enron ties". SFGate - Jason Leopold. May 12, 2002. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
Jason Arthur Leopold (born October 7, 1969) is an American senior investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News. He was previously an investigative reporter...
seeing the Texts from Hillary meme on the Internet. In November 2014, JasonLeopold of Vice News made a Freedom of Information Act request for Clinton's...
interrogating captives apprehended in its "war on terror". In July 2012 JasonLeopold and Jeffrey Kaye, psychologists and human rights workers, had a Freedom...
Kastelein, Naomi Klein, Paul Krassner, James Howard Kunstler, Faisal Kutty, JasonLeopold, Dave Lindorff, Mahmood Mamdani, Eric Margolis, Cynthia McKinney, Mark...
not to, a claim that was later confirmed by investigative journalists JasonLeopold and Anthony Cormier via U.S. intelligence officials with knowledge of...
budget is approximately $2.2 million as of 2021. On May 13, 2006, after JasonLeopold posted on Truthout that Karl Rove had been indicted by the grand jury...
activities the Post described is Gina Haspel. Today, as BuzzFeed's JasonLeopold noted, CIA Director Mike Pompeo announced that Haspel was selected by...
2017, after a Freedom of Information request by investigative reporter JasonLeopold. In 2011, the German Section of the International Association of Lawyers...
amounts to religious humiliation to break the strike." On 5 August 2013, JasonLeopold, writing in Al Jazeera, reported that Bogdan's justification for intrusive...
Street Journal identified the BuzzFeed News reporter as JasonLeopold. Edwards allegedly sent Leopold internal FinCEN emails, investigative memos and intelligence...
Timm from Freedom of the Press Foundation, Cory Doctorow, Cindy Cohn, JasonLeopold, and Brewster Kahle. [1] Swartz has been featured in various works of...
from the original on February 4, 2020. Retrieved February 4, 2020. "JasonLeopold on Twitter: "NEW: We receivedJared Kushner's FBI 302 from the Mueller...
of Energy. Under Bodman’s leadership from 1987 to 2000, according to JasonLeopold, Cabot was one of the U.S.’s largest polluters, accounting for 60,000...
from the original (PDF) on April 29, 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2011. Leopold, Jason; Kaye, Jeffrey (March 22, 2011). "EXCLUSIVE: CIA Psychologist's Notes...
Archived from the original on September 23, 2020. Retrieved May 27, 2011. JasonLeopold, "Cheney Admits He 'Signed Off' on Waterboarding of Three Guantanamo...
Pinkston Sebastian Walker Soledad O'Brien Past contributors Michael Shure JasonLeopold Jami Floyd Past meteorologists Eboni Deon Nicole Mitchell (Chief Meteorologist)...
Alabama Health Reporting Kendall Taggart John Templon Anthony Cormier JasonLeopold BuzzFeed News Decline in quality of care at group homes for people with...
lies and falsehoods Mueller called out". CNN. Retrieved May 16, 2020. JasonLeopold; Ken Bensinger (June 1, 2022). "Michael Flynn's Identity Was Not Improperly...
Poirot privately confronts young Leopold, the true blackmailer who needed to support himself and his father: Leopold had identified the poisoning signs...
Petroleum industry in Mexico, Deepwater Horizon People Michael Klare, JasonLeopold Leffler, William L.; Pattarozzi, Richard; Sterling, Gordon (2011). Deepwater...
from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2017. JasonLeopold and Anthony Cormier, Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie...
Archived from the original on March 15, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2009. JasonLeopold (February 23, 2007). "Cheney's Role Dominates Closing Arguments at Libby...
from the original on October 14, 2020. Retrieved October 13, 2020. JasonLeopold; Ken Bensinger (June 1, 2022). "Michael Flynn's Identity Was Not Improperly...
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