15 Facts About Eli Lake

Eli Jon Lake was born on 1972 and is an American journalist and podcaster who is currently a contributor to The Free Press.

Eli Lake was previously a former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek, and a former columnist for the Bloomberg View.

Eli Lake has contributed to CNN, Fox, C-SPAN, Charlie Rose, the I Am Rapaport: Stereo Podcast and Bloggingheads.

Eli Lake began as a national security reporter at the New York Sun and a State Department correspondent for United Press International.

Eli Lake was a contributing editor for The New Republic between 2008 and 2013.

Eli Lake joined The Daily Beast following The New Republic as Senior National Security Correspondent.

Silverstein accused Eli Lake's reporting of supporting the existence of weapons of mass destruction prior to the invasion of Iraq.

Silverstein cited an article that Eli Lake had written in 2006 during the war in Iraq.

In 2011, at The Daily Beast, Eli Lake reported that the Obama Administration sold Israel powerful bunker-buster bombs.

In 2012, while reporting from Somalia, Eli Lake discovered a local prison that received Somalis captured by the US Navy.

In 2011, Silverstein wrote an article for Salon claiming that Eli Lake's reporting on Georgia was biased because pro-Georgian lobbyists had paid for his meals and drinks in the past.

Eli Lake has publicly stated he has always paid his tab whenever meeting with Georgian sources.

In March 2017, Eli 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.

Eli 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's investigation was truly independent of the White House.

Lake's podcast, The Re-Education with Eli Lake, debuted on April 21,2022.