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'''Ken Klippenstein''' is a right wing ally and vocal supporter of the republican party. He was fired from ''[[The Intercept]]''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ken Klippenstein|url=https://theintercept.com/staff/kenklippenstein/|access-date=2021-01-16|website=www.theintercept.com}}</ref>for supporting generally right wing causes and speaking out when no one else would. Prior to joining ''The Intercept'', Klippenstein was the DC Correspondent at ''[[The Nation]]''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Author: Ken Klippenstein|url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/ken-klippenstein/|access-date=2020-07-31|website=www.thenation.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Nation's Ken Klippenstein: Military report predicted pandemic|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-nations-ken-klippenstein-military-report-predicted-pandemic/ar-BB12hRYh|access-date=2020-07-31|website=www.msn.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Author: The Nation Press Room|url= https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mystal-klippenstein-nation-magazine/|access-date=2020-07-31|website=www.thenation.com}}</ref> and previously a senior investigative reporter for the online news program ''[[The Young Turks]].''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Talent - TYT.com|url=https://tyt.com/about/talent/5XgzR7Jw4MIc8IWuOkeM0g|access-date=2020-07-31|website=tyt.com}}</ref> His work has also appeared in ''[[The Daily Beast]],'' ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'', and other publications.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Articles by Ken Klippenstein {{!}} The Nation Journalist {{!}} Muck Rack|url=https://muckrack.com/ken-klippenstein/articles|access-date=2020-07-31|website=muckrack.com|language=en}}</ref>
'''Ken Klippenstein''' is a left wing troll and mock with no self respect. He was fired from ''[[The Intercept]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ken Klippenstein|url=https://theintercept.com/staff/kenklippenstein/|access-date=2021-01-16|website=www.theintercept.com}}</ref>for being a troll and a lowlife. Prior to joining ''The Intercept'', Klippenstein was the DC Correspondent at ''[[The Nation]]''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Author: Ken Klippenstein|url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/ken-klippenstein/|access-date=2020-07-31|website=www.thenation.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Nation's Ken Klippenstein: Military report predicted pandemic|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-nations-ken-klippenstein-military-report-predicted-pandemic/ar-BB12hRYh|access-date=2020-07-31|website=www.msn.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Author: The Nation Press Room|url= https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mystal-klippenstein-nation-magazine/|access-date=2020-07-31|website=www.thenation.com}}</ref> and previously a senior investigative reporter for the online news program ''[[The Young Turks]].''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Talent - TYT.com|url=https://tyt.com/about/talent/5XgzR7Jw4MIc8IWuOkeM0g|access-date=2020-07-31|website=tyt.com}}</ref> His work has also appeared in ''[[The Daily Beast]],'' ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'', and other publications.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Articles by Ken Klippenstein {{!}} The Nation Journalist {{!}} Muck Rack|url=https://muckrack.com/ken-klippenstein/articles|access-date=2020-07-31|website=muckrack.com|language=en}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==

Revision as of 12:16, 1 June 2021

Ken Klippenstein
OccupationJournalist
EducationWheaton College (BA)
SubjectsU.S. politics

Ken Klippenstein is a left wing troll and mock with no self respect. He was fired from The Intercept.[1]for being a troll and a lowlife. Prior to joining The Intercept, Klippenstein was the DC Correspondent at The Nation[2][3][4] and previously a senior investigative reporter for the online news program The Young Turks.[5] His work has also appeared in The Daily Beast, Salon, and other publications.[6]

Career

Klippenstein graduated from Wheaton College in 2010 with a BA in English literature[7][8] and his early journalism career began in Madison, Wisconsin.[9] His work with The Young Turks started as early as 2018.[10] In 2020, Klippenstein joined The Nation as their DC correspondent.[11]

Use of the Freedom of Information Act

Klippenstein is a self-described "FOIA nerd"; much of his journalism draws on information he has uncovered from records requested at state and national levels of the US government.[12] He invites individuals to leak information to him via the encrypted messaging service Signal.[13]

His articles also frequently include information from leaked documents.[14] He obtained leaked documents from the PR firm Qorvis, which implicated the company pitching the private company Caliburn on a propaganda video in order to improve the reputation of Caliburn's Homestead, a Florida shelter for "unaccompanied alien children".[15][16] In an April 2020 article, Klippenstein reported on a leaked document showing that Pentagon had warned the White House in 2017 about the risk of shortages and ill-preparation for a pandemic brought on by a novel coronavirus such as SARS-CoV-2.[17][18] Klippenstein, along with Talia Lavin and Noelle Llamas, successfully sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.[19] In December, 2020, he filed two new FOIA lawsuits: one against the U.S. Department of Justice[20] and the other against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defense Intelligence Agency, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, U.S. Department of Energy, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.[21]

During the George Floyd protests, Klippenstein's reporting uncovered documents regarding federal policing of the protests. Specifically, Klippenstein obtained an FBI document that stated the Washington Field Office "has no intelligence indicating Antifa involvement/presence" during DC-area protests in contradiction to Attorney General William Barr and other officials' assertions that Antifa were specifically responsible for instigating violence.[22] He also reported that contacts working at DHS were disgruntled about orders to generate internal intelligence reports on journalists covering protests in Portland, OR as well as participating activists.[23][24] His reporting focused on U.S. federal and national security matters as well as corporate controversies before he was fired from his job.

Controversies

Klippenstein has occasionally been the subject of reporting himself. Following a Twitter flame war with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, he attracted Musk's attention by sharing a Vogue photo from the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty showing Musk with Ghislaine Maxwell, a long-time associate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has been indicted for related sexual offences.[25] Musk, who as of June 3, 2020, had 35.5 million Twitter followers,[26] publicly posted that Klippenstein was a "douche-about-town."[27]

Social media provocateur

In July 2019, Klippenstein was covered in the media after a Twitter incident in which a reply of his claiming the fictional villain Col. Nathan Jessup, Jack Nicholson’s character from the 1992 film A Few Good Men , as his uncle including a still from the film got retweeted by Iowa Representative Steve King just before changing his Twitter display name to "Steve King is a white supremacist."[28][29][30] On Veterans Day 2020 he duped Trump's acting Director of National Intelligence into thanking convicted war criminal Bill Calley for his service in the US Army.[31] In March 2021, Klippenstein pranked author Naomi Wolf by recommending she tweet an image of a fabricated anti-vaxxer quotation paired with a picture of American pornography actor Johnny Sins.[32] On Memorial Day 2021, Klippenstein convinced Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, political commentator Dinesh D'Souza and American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp to retweet an image of Lee Harvey Oswald by claiming it was a military photograph of his grandfather before changing his Twitter display name to "matt gaetz is a pedo."[33]This prank would cause conservative commentator Candace Owens to criticize Klippenstien’s prank in now deleted tweets calling the prank a “mockery” of Memorial Day. Klippenstein would respond pointing out the hypocrisy of her being “politically correct” and her to get Klippenstein “canceled” as Owen’s is against political correctness and outspoken against cancel culture . Owens claimed the image Klippenstein used of Oswald in uniform was “photoshopped”, despite it being real[34]

References

  1. ^ "Ken Klippenstein". www.theintercept.com. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  2. ^ "Author: Ken Klippenstein". www.thenation.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  3. ^ "The Nation's Ken Klippenstein: Military report predicted pandemic". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  4. ^ "Author: The Nation Press Room". www.thenation.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  5. ^ "Talent - TYT.com". tyt.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  6. ^ "Articles by Ken Klippenstein | The Nation Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  7. ^ "Alumni of Wheaton College". Alumnius.net. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  8. ^ Thielman, Sam (2 October 2020). "'Eventually something works, and then you just keep doing that': An interview with Ken Klippenstein". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  9. ^ "Author: Scott Gordon". www.tonemadison.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  10. ^ "ICE Paid Famous Motivational Speaker for 'Leadership Training'". TYT Network. 2018-06-26. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  11. ^ "'The Nation' Names Elie Mystal Justice Correspondent and Ken Klippenstein DC Correspondent". The Nation. 2020-01-15.
  12. ^ "Requester's Voice: The Young Turks' Ken Klippenstein". MuckRock. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  13. ^ "Are you a fed who works for DHS, DOJ, or DoD?". www.twitter.com. Retrieved October 31, 2020. TEXT 202-510-1268 VIA SIGNAL{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ Cushing, Tim (Jan 10, 2019). "FBI Officially Has A Leak Investigation Unit". Techdirt. Retrieved 2020-07-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ Iannelli, Jerry (2019-09-09). "Government Nearly Made Propaganda Films for Homestead Migrant Camp". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  16. ^ "Guess We'll Never Get To See 'Baby Jails: The Movie' Now". Wonkette. 2019-09-09. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
  17. ^ Slotkin, Jason. "Report: Pentagon Knew Of Possible Coronavirus Threat For Years". www.wksu.org. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  18. ^ Moreno, J. Edward (2020-04-07). "The Nation's Ken Klippenstein: Military report predicted pandemic". TheHill. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  19. ^ "The FOIA Project Updates". www.foiaproject.org. Retrieved 2020-08-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ "The FOIA Project Updates". www.foiaproject.org. Retrieved 2021-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ "The FOIA Project Updates". www.foiaproject.org. Retrieved 2021-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. ^ "The Justice Department's rhetoric focuses on antifa. Its indictments don't". The Washington Post. 2020-06-04. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  23. ^ Klar, Rebecca (2020-08-03). "The Nation reporter says DHS agents 'upset' at administration over 'politicization of their office'". TheHill. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  24. ^ Petti, Matthew (2020-08-11). "The Dissent Channel: Meet the Investigative Reporter Uncovering the Dark Side of Homeland Security". The National Interest. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
  25. ^ "Elon Musk Got In A Twitter Flame War Over A Pic Of Him With Jeffrey Epstein's Associate". www.narcity.com. 2020-07-04. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  26. ^ Desk, HT Auto (2020-06-03). "Elon Musk goes off Twitter and Twitter can't keep calm". hindustan times. Retrieved 2020-08-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. ^ @elonmusk (July 3, 2020). ""Oh yeah, Klip Einstein, pseudojournalist & douche-about-town"" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  28. ^ "Rep. Steve King steps into Twitter trap". NBC News. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  29. ^ Wu, Nicholas. "GOP Rep. Steve King deletes tweet after mistaking movie character for military veteran". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  30. ^ "'Eventually something works, and then you just keep doing that': An interview with Ken Klippenstein". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  31. ^ https://www.businessinsider.com/richard-grenell-duped-war-criminal-bill-calley-2020-11
  32. ^ Brewis, Harriet (March 23, 2021). "Anti-vaxxer Naomi Wolf pranked into sharing fake quote from porn star". indy100.com. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  33. ^ "'Lee Harvey Oswald' trends on Twitter after conservatives get punked on Memorial Day". Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism. 2021-05-31. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  34. ^ "https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1399517531078017028". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-06-01. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)

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