Mark Benjamin

Mark Benjamin is an award-winning investigative reporter based in Washington, D.C. and a contributing writer at TIME. Since 2001, Benjamin has focused on national security issues with an emphasis on the plight of returning veterans and detainee abuse. Benjamin exposed the burial scandal at Arlington National Cemetery through a yearlong investigation. He was hailed for exploring problems caring for veterans at Walter Reed starting in early 2005 and also obtained the Army’s entire Abu Ghraib investigative files. Benjamin is the winner of a Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for the best reporting from Washington, a Fourth Estate Award from the American Legion, a Mental Health Media Award from the National Mental Health Association, an Outstanding Media Coverage Award from the National Gulf War Resource Center, a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism, and was twice a finalist for the Online News Association’s Online Journalism Awards. He previously worked at Salon.com and UPI. He can be reached at Mark_Benjamin@columnist.timemagazine.com

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Pentagon just worried about Manning’s welfare

President Obama, administration, and military officials have insisted for months that the pre-trial confinement conditions of suspected Wikileaker Pfc. Bradley at the Marine Corps brig at Quantico, Va., including effective solitary confinement and periods of forced nudity, were in the best interest of Manning’s apparently frail mental …

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If only GTMO were like Nuremberg

Media organizations are increasingly worried that they won’t be able to accurately cover the pending military trial of alleged 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators. Among the concerns are how many reporters will be able to see what is happening in the military courtroom – even through closed-circuit TV – …

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On Passover, we give thanks for these rockets

President Obama called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Monday to mark the start of Passover. Netanyahu said thanks for the call — and the rockets, according to a White House readout of the call.

The United States is sending $205 million to Israel specifically for “Iron Dome,” a high-tech rocket and mortar defense system to help …

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