Mattathias Schwartz is chief national security correspondent at Insider.
He is a former staff writer at the New Yorker and a current contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. He has written several profiles of senior officials, including William Barr, John Brennan, James Clapper, and Mike Pompeo. "The Trolls Among Us," the first New York Times article to note the existence of 4chan, has been cited by hundreds of books and academic articles, as well as Merriam-Webster's definition of the word "troll." His investigation of the extradition of Christopher Coke from Kingston, Jamaica, won the Livingston Award for international reporting.
McGonigal took $225,000 from an Albanian with spy connections, then hid the payments from the FBI. He has pleaded guilty to helping a Russian oligarch.