David Ignatius

Washington Post / Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

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Associate Editor and columnist for the Washington Post and senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; author of The Increment, a spy novel, and Body of Lies, which was made into a motion picture

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