Spencer Ackerman

Spencer Ackerman is a Reporter/Blogger for TPMmuckraker.com, covering national security. Additionally, he's a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and national security correspondent for the Washington Monthly. His writing has appeared in Slate, Salon, Men's Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, New York Press and The New Republic. In 1996, the New York Daily News included him in a profile on punk-rock fashion in city high schools, which began Ackerman's long career of embarrassing himself in public. He was named as a potential witness in the Scooter Libby trial and is still bitter about not being called to testify.

Ackerman lives with a lot of bloggers and two dogs in Washington, D.C. He enjoys cooking, complaining and mid-'90s hardcore records.