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Spencer Ackerman
Ackerman in 2008[1]
Born
(1980-06-01) June 1, 1980 (age 43)
New York City, U.S.
Education
Rutgers University (BA)
Occupation
Journalist
Years active
2002-present
Known for
National security journalism
Notable work
Reign of Terror
Awards
2012 National Magazine Award for Digital Media 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Website
foreverwars.substack.com
Spencer Ackerman (born June 1, 1980) is an American journalist and writer. Focusing primarily on national security, he began his career at The New Republic in 2002 before writing for Wired, The Guardian and The Daily Beast.
He won a 2012 National Magazine Award for reporting on biased FBI training materials and shared in a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 2013 global surveillance disclosures. His book Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump was named a best nonfiction book of 2021 by The New York Times, The Washington Post and Foreign Policy.
^"Iraq in Strategic Context". The Austin Chronicle. July 11, 2008. Retrieved June 11, 2021. While the media focuses on "the surge," this panel takes a holistic look at Iraq in geopolitical terms for the Middle East, the U.S., and the world. Young turks of the blogosphere Matt Yglesias and Spencer Ackerman are joined by the National Security Network's Ilan Goldenberg and A.J. Rossmiller.
SpencerAckerman (born June 1, 1980) is an American journalist and writer. Focusing primarily on national security, he began his career at The New Republic...
"Q-coded—it's 'protect the blood,' it's the 14 words, it's all this stuff." SpencerAckerman in The Nation and Chauncey DeVega of Salon.com have described Project...
Yamamoto In May 2017, Pulitzer Prize–winning national security reporter SpencerAckerman left The Guardian and joined The Daily Beast. In June 2017, HuffPost...
associate editor SpencerAckerman was fired by editor Franklin Foer. Describing it as a "painful" decision, Foer attributed the firing to Ackerman's "insubordination":...
centered on the case of Saudi national Abu Zubaydah. On May 1, 2018, SpencerAckerman, writing in The Daily Beast, reported that former CIA analyst Gail...
the facility gained worldwide notoriety when the American journalist SpencerAckerman wrote a series of articles in The Guardian comparing it to a CIA black...
Order 12333 in the near future, according to a report by journalist SpencerAckerman of The Guardian. In July 2014, former State Department official John...
technology magazine Wired in a November 2011 article, with journalist SpencerAckerman referring to previous scandals involving FBI harassment of Muslim-Americans...
as a detective. He served mostly on Chicago's North Side. (Reporter SpencerAckerman gives his dates of service as 1977–2007.) During his last 18 months...
which the suspect thought he was meeting up with 2 underage girls SpencerAckerman: Government agents 'directly involved in most high-profile US terror...
demand, the journalists may be kidnapped, intimidated, or even killed. SpencerAckerman of Wired said, "even if you don't read Spanish (like me), the images...
film's set designs. The American political journalist and blogger SpencerAckerman was one of the film's political consultants. The scene in the film...
Limits Set by Congress". The New York Times. Retrieved April 15, 2009. Ackerman, Spencer (April 16, 2009). "NSA Revelations Spark Push to Restore FISA". The...
Cavaleiro Branco". Omelete (in Portuguese). Retrieved January 23, 2022. Perry, Spencer (March 2, 2020). "Batman: DC Comics Wants Full Murphyverse Line from White...
alleged Zuley beat his confession out of him. On February 18, 2015, SpencerAckerman, reporting in The Guardian, covered Zuley's alleged involvement in...
said Pulitzer Prize winning Daily Beast national security reporter SpencerAckerman "from John Avlon that we are not in commodity news business. We have...
Carlos. "GOP's Amash: Clapper should resign", The Hill, June 12, 2013. Ackerman, Spencer. "Rand Paul accuses James Clapper of lying to Congress over NSA suveillance"...
Archived from the original on January 22, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2011. SpencerAckerman (June 30, 2014). "Abu Ghraib torture suit against contractor revived...
yielded information to locate bin Laden. National security reporter SpencerAckerman said the film "does not present torture as a silver bullet that led...
unite against Jeff Sessions's latest outrage". The Washington Post. SpencerAckerman and Sabrina Siddiqui (May 18, 2015). "NSA surveillance opposed by American...
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