Spencer Ackerman blogs about national security for ThinkProgress.org. He’s a senior reporter for The Washington Independent, where he covers national security, as well as a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, where he covers… you get the idea. Before that, Ackerman was a reporter-blogger for Talking Points Memo, where his work helped lead to the resignation of State Department Inspector General Howard “Cookie” Krongard, and an associate editor of The New Republic, where his work helped drive Scooter Libby to expose the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame. He’s reported from Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Qatar, the very weird Dubai airport, and will soon be heading out to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to risk his life for under $1 per word. His writing has appeared in Men’s Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Salon, Inside Front, Jezebel, and other publications. Ackerman has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, C-Span, Air America, NPR, PRI, and many blog comment sections. In his spare time he enjoys cooking and punk rock.