16 Facts About Ken Klippenstein

Kenneth Klippenstein was born on February 1,1988 and is an American journalist who worked at The Intercept.

Ken Klippenstein's work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Salon, and other publications.

Ken Klippenstein's reporting has focused on US federal and national security matters as well as corporate controversies.

Ken Klippenstein is the son of Stephen J Klippenstein, a theoretical chemist for the Department of Energy at the Argonne National Laboratory.

Ken Klippenstein graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature.

In 2020, Ken Klippenstein joined The Nation as their DC correspondent.

On September 26,2024, Ken Klippenstein shared a dossier on vice-presidential candidate JD Vance, reportedly hacked from the Trump campaign and subsequently leaked by Iran, in his newsletter and linked to it from his X account.

On December 10,2024, Ken Klippenstein published an alleged full text manifesto of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Ken Klippenstein is a self-described "FOIA nerd"; much of his journalism draws on information he has uncovered from records requested at state and national levels of the US government.

Ken Klippenstein obtained leaked documents from the PR firm Qorvis, which implicated the company pitching the private company Caliburn on a propaganda video in order to improve the reputation of Caliburn's Homestead, a Florida shelter for "unaccompanied alien children".

Ken Klippenstein reported that contacts working at the Department of Homeland Security were disgruntled about orders to generate internal intelligence reports on journalists covering protests in Portland, Oregon as well as participating activists.

Ken Klippenstein has occasionally been the subject of reporting, as well, due to him pranking individuals from across the political spectrum.

Musk, who as of June 3,2020, had 35.5 million Twitter followers, publicly posted that Ken Klippenstein was a "douche-about-town".

In July 2019, Ken Klippenstein was covered in the media after a Twitter incident in which he was retweeted by Iowa Congressman Steve King just before changing his Twitter display name to "Steve King is a white supremacist".

In March 2021, Ken Klippenstein pranked author Naomi Wolf by recommending she tweet an image of a fabricated anti-vaxxer quotation paired with a picture of American pornography actor Johnny Sins.

On Memorial Day 2021, Klippenstein tricked political commentators Dinesh D'Souza and Matt Schlapp, as well as Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, into retweeting a photograph of John F Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, whom Klippenstein claimed was his veteran grandfather.