Jamie McIntyre Biography

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Veteran journalist Jamie McIntyre brings 16 years of frontline experience in national security reporting to his latest assignment: host of the “Line of Departure,” a daily blog on Military​.com.

Internationally known for his high-profile role as CNN’s Senior Pentagon and Military Affairs Correspondent from 1992 to 2008, McIntyre draws on his extensive firsthand inside knowledge to offer insights on both the military and the media.

From the intervention of Somalia to the invasion of Iraq, McIntyre has covered every U.S. military operation of the past two decades, both from inside the Pentagon and from the war zones

McIntyre was working in the Pentagon September 11, 2001 and was the first reporter to obtain what turned out to be the only photographs of Flight 77 hitting the building, images from a security camera that were released officially years later.

In December 2003 McIntyre broke the news of Saddam Hussein’s capture by American forces in Iraq, and in 2007 McIntyre’s in-depth investigation of the Army’s handling of the death of Pat Tillman was nominated for an Emmy award.

In his time as a Pentagon reporter, McIntyre logged more than half a million miles traveling to more than 60 countries, often with top military of civilian leaders.

Prior to joining CNN full time in 1992, McIntyre was a freelance reporter for the network, and also for several years the “Voice of C-SPAN”.

From 1989–1991 McIntyre was the host and senior writer of Capital Edition, an Emmy award-winning news magazine show, which aired Sunday mornings on WUSA-TV, Channel 9 in Washington, and prior to that spent 12 years as an editor and reporter at WTOP all-news radio in Washington.

In July of 2009, McIntyre joined the editorial team at Military​.com where he now blogs on national security and media issues at “Jamie McIntyre’s Line of Departure,” Military.com’s Media and National Policy Journal.

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