After decades of being a contributor at NBC News, William M. Arkin famously wrote a farewell note upon leaving the organization in January 2019.
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“William Arkin has created articles and reports for NBC News and The Los Angeles Times, among other media venues. But he may be remembered for something he wrote for himself. In a mammoth 2000-word-plus farewell letter, Arkin, a veteran NBC News staffer and analyst who has also written books and for newspapers, warned that ‘In our day-to-day whirlwind and hostage status as prisoners of Donald Trump, I think—like everyone else does—that we miss so much…’
Arkin, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and a human-rights advocacy worker, has a distinguished resume. He is co-author of “Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State,” based on a three-year Washington Post investigation he took part in that examined military, intelligence and corporate interests in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11. 2001. He is also known for being contrarian. He penned a similar farewell letter when he left Gawker in 2015.”
Read the full article at Variety
“This author of ground-breaking work on secret CIA ‘black sites’ has a respectful audience at both Harvard and Maxwell US Air Force Base. So when he quits, I take notice.”
Read the full article at The Independent
“‘Who is William Arkin’ … is a piece I wrote for the Daily Standard a while back. It obviously bugs Arkin, who is an off-the-left-cliff critic of the American military and a not very well credentialed one at that. (Greenpeace. Really.) And, believe it or not, now a Washington Post blogger. If the folks running the Post’s blogs were not as hard left as Arkin, they would have offered Frank Gaffney a blog. But they didn’t. And I doubt they ever will. Because they are with Dean and the Defeatocrats, and uninterested in the idea of fairness.”
“From his home in the mountains of Vermont, William Arkin seems to have mastered one of the great juggling acts of the multimedia age—persuading news organizations, advocacy groups and the Pentagon, through sheer smarts and a bulldog personality, to take him on his own terms.”
“The author is well known (and in some government quarters, cordially detested) as an indefatigable researcher in military affairs, whose cunning and persistence have uncovered many secrets (notably in the area of nuclear weapons).”