Ali Watkins was born on 27 October 1991 and is an American journalist who writes for The New York Times.
12 Facts About Ali Watkins
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Ali Watkins has worked for a number of publications, including BuzzFeed, Politico, McClatchy, The Huffington Post, and the Philadelphia Daily News.
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Since 2023, Ali Watkins has worked as a reporter for the breaking and trending news operation of the New York Times in Europe, based in London.
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Ali Watkins was born and raised in Berks County, Pennsylvania and attended Fleetwood High School in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania.
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Ali Watkins is a graduate of Temple University, where she was a news editor for The Temple News.
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In 2014, while she was still a senior in college, Ali Watkins broke a national story about the Central Intelligence Agency monitoring United States Senate computers while the Senate Intelligence Committee was preparing a report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program.
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For several years, Ali Watkins' beat was the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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At The New York Times, where she was hired in December 2017, Ali Watkins covered national security and law-enforcement agencies from its Washington, DC bureau until July 2018.
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From December 2013 to December 2017, Watkins was in a romantic relationship with the former head of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, James A Wolfe.
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The FBI opened an investigation into Wolfe after an April 2017 article by Ali Watkins described contacts between Russian spies and Donald Trump policy adviser Carter Page, who had not been publicly identified in relation to those contacts and who was working for the CIA at the time of the meetings.
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Ali Watkins disclosed the relationship to her employers BuzzFeed News, The New York Times, and Politico; however, McClatchy editors said they were ignorant of the relationship while Ali Watkins was an intern and employee from mid-2013 through 2014.
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The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the case "bears a strong resemblance to the television drama House of Cards," of which it said Ali Watkins was a fan.