As director of the independent nongovernmental National Security Archive, Tom Blanton has won a 2004 Emmy Award, a 2000 George Polk Award, and the 2010 Link-Kuehl Prize. The author of several books including White House E-mail and Afghanistan 20/20 (both from The New Press), as well as articles that have appeared in Foreign Policy, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, he lives in Rockville, Maryland.