Friday, October 15, 2010

Wired's Danger Room team is doing a video AMA next week. Ask Them Anything.

The Danger Room team (Noah Shachtman, Katie Drummond, & Spencer Ackerman) are all in NYC next week and were gracious enough to agree to spend some time answering your top ten questions about military technology, national security, and anything else. This will be a video interview and we'll ask them the top questions as of 9am EST on October 20th. Ask them anything HERE.

About Noah Shachtman
Noah Shachtman keeps finding himself in stupid situations, as a contributing editor at WIRED and the editor of its national security blog, Danger Room. When he's not embedding with Marines in Afghanistan's opium country or defusing roadside explosives with a Baghdad bomb squad, he's sneaking into the Los Alamos nuclear lab, chasing down suspects on Chicago's West Side, orundergoing experiments by Pentagon-funded scientists at Stanford. (And let's not even get into the Taser incident.) Shachtman wasn't always this dumb: before getting into journalism and national security nerditry, he worked as a professional bass player and campaign staffer on Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. These days, he also serves as a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Insitution, and writes occassionally for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and others. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife,
Elizabeth, and his son, Leo.

About Katie Drummond
Katie Drummond stirred up trouble on the north side of the border for 18 years, before moving to New York to stoke the
ire of everyone from workout-obsessed troops to diet-obsessed bloggers. After dropping out of NYU's journalism
program (twice) she documented terrible tattoos and was surprised by gayness as an editor at True/Slant. She then ingratiated herself with the fine gentlemen at Wired -- and kept writing for Danger Room until Noah Shachtman gave up and added her to the masthead. Since then, she's followed Darpa's every bizarro move, and kept tabs on the military's mental health crises and exploits in regenerative medicine. When she's not Danger Rooming, she's covering health and science at AOL News, drinking Jameson at the bar below her apartment and fending off the clawed advances of her cat, Riggins Cassius.

About Spencer Ackerman
Spencer Ackerman usually reports from war zones only when he knows people will tell him dirty stories. Un/luckily, it happens often enough, as with the elderly Iraqi traffic cop who kept "hundreds" of porno films on his phone or the cavalry troop in Afghanistan partial to the "Debbie Does Dallas" soundtrack. One thing he discovered in Afghanistan this August for Danger Room as the blog's new senior reporter: those who fly unmanned drone aircraft are not interested in sharing such hijinks. Nor is commanding general David Petraeus. But covering the defense industry means you're never short of an opportunity for bathroom humor. Before entering the Danger Room in July, Ackerman, a D.C. transplant from Brooklyn, was a staff reporter for the Washington Independent, Talking Points Memo and the New Republic, and he's written for a variety of inappropriate blogs since way back when they were called zines.

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