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Eli Jon Lake is an American journalist and the former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Currently, he is a columnist for the Bloomberg View. He has also contributed to CNN, Fox, CSPAN, Charlie Rose, the I Am Rapaport: Stereo Podcast and Bloggingheads.tv. He has war zones as Sudan, Iraq, and Gaza from the U.S. and abroad.

Lake was born in Philadelphia to a Jewish family and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1994.

Lake began as national security reporter at the New York Sun and as State Department correspondent for United Press International (UPI).

In 2009, Lake reported extensively on President Barack Obama's delicate discussions with Israel over its nuclear program. Later that year, Lake's reporting also helped to scuttle the nomination of Chas Freeman be the chairman of the National Intelligence Council. In 2010, regarding U.S. attempts to try WikiLeaks head Julian Assange under the Espionage Act of 1917, Lake has said: "I oppose the application of the espionage statute to Assange because the same kind of prosecution would make me a criminal too."