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Adam Zagorin

Journalist in Residence

Adam Zagorin focuses on investigations primarily involving national security and violations of securities laws. Zagorin has written reports for POGO on security risks surrounding the protection of U.S. diplomatic and other facilities abroad, links between a major U.S. military contractor and Iran, and enforcement issues at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to joining POGO, he was a Senior Correspondent at TIME magazine in Washington, DC. He received a B.A. from Northwestern University, an M.A. from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a degree in Arabic from the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo. Zagorin has appeared as a commentator on CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, CNN, PBS News Hour, Charlie Rose, Diane Rehm, and other television and radio venues.

Latest Work

  • “American Lives at Risk”: Security Breakdown in Kenya Echoes Benghazi

    investigation | February 7, 2019 | Adam Zagorin & Neil Gordon

  • Bribery Trial Reveals Jeff Sessions’ Role in Blocking EPA Action Targeting One of His Biggest Donors

    investigation | August 3, 2018 | Adam Zagorin & Nick Schwellenbach

  • Inside the Cutthroat World of Billion-Dollar Military Supply Contracts

    investigation | May 8, 2018 | Adam Zagorin

  • How Trump’s NASA Nominee Used a Nonprofit He Ran to Benefit Himself

    investigation | April 18, 2018 | Adam Zagorin & Nick Schwellenbach

  • CIA Inspector General Nominee Has Three Open Whistleblower Retaliation Cases Implicating Him

    investigation | October 16, 2017 | Adam Zagorin

  • Whistleblower Lawsuit Charges Illegal Retaliation, Dangerous Practices at CIA’s Elite Directorate of Operations

    investigation | August 24, 2017 | Adam Zagorin

  • Recusal Time, Again

    investigation | July 31, 2017 | Adam Zagorin & Nick Schwellenbach

  • The US Military's Iran Connection?

    investigation | June 7, 2017 | Adam Zagorin

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In The News

  • House Foreign Affairs Asks State Dept. About Kenya Embassy Security Risks

    February 15, 2019

  • Ongoing US embassy labour row puts lives at risk, official warns

    February 10, 2019

  • Security Breakdown at This U.S. Embassy Echoes Benghazi

    February 06, 2019

  • Interview Series: The Death of Jamal Kashoggi (Guest: Adam Zagorin)

    October 16, 2018

  • Judge Rejects CIA Whistleblower’s Bid for the Right to Advance His Case Privately

    March 01, 2018

  • CIA Watchdog Nominee Denies Charges of Whistleblower Retaliation

    October 17, 2017

  • CIA officer: Personnel sent shopping in hostile area

    August 24, 2017

  • Group asks Sessions, U.S. Attorney to recuse themselves from Superfund cases

    August 09, 2017

  • Top VA Official And Her Hubby Targets In Conflict Of Interest Probe

    June 16, 2016

  • Newly Revealed Memo Revives Flap Over ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Disclosures

    April 20, 2015

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