Jeff Stein (author)

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Jeff Stein
defense and foreign policy issues

Jeff Stein (born February 13, 1944) is the editor-in-chief of SpyTalk, a newsletter covering U.S. intelligence, defense and foreign policy, on the Substack platform. Previously, he was the SpyTalk columnist (and national security correspondent) at Newsweek, and before that, the SpyTalk blogger at The Washington Post. From 2002 to 2009, he was the founding editor of CQ/Homeland Security, and later national security editor at Congressional Quarterly, where he first launched his SpyTalk column. He had already covered the spy agencies and national policy topics for decades.[1][2]

Biography

Stein was born in

Bronze Star.[citation needed
]

Stein began his journalism career at a suburban

Green Beret murder case that occurred during the Vietnam War.[4]

In the 1990s, Stein began writing for

Khidhir Hamza, a scientist who worked on Saddam Hussein's nuclear program before defecting in 1994, Stein wrote Saddam's Bombmaker. In 2002, Congressional Quarterly hired Stein to launch and edit CQ/Homeland Security which was nominated for an award in its first year of existence.[citation needed
]

In 2005, Stein began writing a weekly column for CQ, entitled "SpyTalk", which evolved into a daily

NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
and implicated a number of other figures.

In addition to his SpyTalk work, Stein continues to write op-ed pieces and book reviews for The New York Times and The Washington Post. He has also written for other publications, including Esquire, Vanity Fair, GQ, Playboy, The New Republic, The Nation and The Christian Science Monitor.[7] He also appears on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and BBC, among others, to comment on U.S. national security issues.[7]

Personal life

Stein resides in

Northwest Washington, DC, in a restored Victorian era farmhouse. He is a member of both the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and Investigative Reporters and Editors.[citation needed
]

Work

Books

References

  1. ^ "Jeff Stein". Newsweek. Retrieved 2020-08-21.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Jeff Stein". Newsweek. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  3. ^ "CQ Politics about Jeff Stein". Archived from the original on 2009-10-03.
  4. ^ a b "Huffington Post biography of Jeff Stein". Archived from the original on 11 October 2016.
  5. ^ Stein, Jeff (October 17, 2006). "Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite?". The New York Times. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  6. ^ "Jeff Stein discusses the Harman case". Archived from the original on 2016-05-07.
  7. ^ a b "Jeff Stein Biography".

External links

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