Mark Benjamin is an award-winning investigative reporter with Salon.com’s Washington bureau. Since 2001, Benjamin has focused on national security issues with an emphasis on the plight of returning veterans and detainee abuse. He was hailed for exposing problems caring for veterans at Walter Reed starting in early 2005 and also obtained for Salon 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 a Project Censored Award and was twice a finalist for the Online News Association’s Online Journalism Awards. He previously worked at UPI.

Mark Benjamin's Salon stories

Sunday, Nov 15, 2009 18:01 PST

Camp Lejeune whistle-blower fired

A psychiatrist who tried to prevent Fort Hood-style violence among Marines about to "lose it" instead loses his job
Friday, Nov 13, 2009 16:01 PST

The Army opens a broad new probe into Arlington

The move comes in the wake of a Salon investigation, but results so far are mixed
Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 12:13 PST

The media's silly Fort Hood coverage

Everyone wants to debate terrorism and political correctness, but the real story is the failure of Army medicine
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 16:15 PST

Radio host Ingraham distorted my words, then cut my mike

I tried to have a real conversation about Fort Hood with the conservative talker, but she wasn't interested Audio
Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 13:45 PST

What's motive behind Fort Hood shooting?

The Army says 12 are dead, possibly including alleged shooter, and 31 wounded. Updated
Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 17:05 PST

Arlington officials can't get their stories straight

The superintendent says he may have been absent when remains were moved, but an employee's log says otherwise
Sunday, Nov 1, 2009 16:28 PST

More misplaced remains at Arlington National Cemetery

What happened to Master Sgt. Marion Grabe, says a source, is a clue "that there may be thousands of these problems"
Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009 00:07 PDT

Arlington unveils a new unknown soldier

The first headstone stamped "Unknown" since 1984 is the result not of war's chaos, but of human error
Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 00:09 PDT

Millions in contracts, no work completed

An Arlington National Cemetery official keeps sending work to the same small group of associates, with few results
Friday, Sep 11, 2009 12:30 PDT

Eight years after 9/11, why remain in Afghanistan?

The UN ambassador gives Salon the administration's explanation
Tuesday, Sep 8, 2009 03:20 PDT

I am arming my kid to the teeth

My liberal parents never let me play with toy guns as a boy. Now that my son is 4, I'm stockpiling the arsenal
Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 03:40 PDT

A fitting Kennedy tribute: Clean up Arlington mess

A grateful family remembers Kennedy's work to help them get a more timely funeral for their son killed in Iraq
Tuesday, Aug 25, 2009 03:40 PDT

"Handgun and power drill"

Selected pages from the CIA inspector general's report on interrogation during the war on terror
Tuesday, Aug 25, 2009 03:40 PDT

"We're going to kill your children"

Mock executions and a favored Saddam technique, all endorsed by Cheney. Highlights of the CIA interrogation report
Friday, Aug 14, 2009 03:14 PDT

Contractor in Arlington fraud scandal arrested

Arlington National Cemetery contractor Bobbie Garrett was arrested on sex charges as he stepped off a plane in Ohio
Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 03:15 PDT

Did Arlington National Cemetery break the law?

The cemetery sent the personal data of deceased soldiers to a contractor at the center of a fraud scandal
Monday, Aug 10, 2009 03:17 PDT

Why did Arlington National Cemetery rehire Bobbie Garrett?

Garrett was investigated for fraud while working as a contractor for the cemetery. Why did he get his job back?
Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009 03:25 PDT

Army will investigate Arlington National Cemetery

After a Salon series exposes problems at the cemetery, the Army says it will investigate. But workers have doubts
Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009 03:20 PDT

Did U.S. forces watch Afghan massacre?

Afghan detainees allege that Americans witnessed a mass killing -- a charge the New York Times chose not to report
Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009 03:18 PDT

"One big, tall Caucasian American"

A detainee who survived a massacre of Taliban prisoners is among those who claim there were American witnesses
Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009 03:21 PDT

Arlington's buried secrets

The cemetery admits it can't identify grave-site remains -- while new evidence casts doubt on Army investigation
Monday, Jul 20, 2009 03:10 PDT

A grave record from Arlington

The document saying of Grave 449, "CASKET IN GRAVE REMAINS UNKNOWN"
Friday, Jul 17, 2009 03:18 PDT

Who is the CIA allowed to kill?

Cheney's secret assassination program may be terminated, but the U.S. is already carrying out "targeted killings"
Friday, Jul 17, 2009 03:16 PDT

What's trashed at Arlington National Cemetery

Many personal mementos of dead soldiers are being thrown out -- a stark contrast to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Thursday, Jul 16, 2009 03:19 PDT

Grave offenses at Arlington National Cemetery

A criminal investigation and allegations of misplaced bodies and shoddy care have roiled the famous burial ground
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