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Shane Harris is a staff writer with the Washington Post, covering intelligence and national security. He has previously written about these topics at The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, and NationalJournal.

Shane is the author of two books, The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State and @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1998. He lives in Washington, DC.