Ken Klippenstein

Ken Klippenstein's newsletter For readers who want to know what the Pentagon, the FBI and the wider security apparatus are doing, rather than what officials say they are doing. A former DC correspondent for The Nation and reporter at The Intercept, Klippenstein went independent in 2024, co-founding his outlet with William M. Arkin. His appetite for risk is the point and the caveat: soon after leaving, he published the hacked JD Vance dossier that major outlets had declined to run. If you want national security reporting that is openly sceptical of government sourcing, this is the one.