Jason Vest

Jason Vest is an investigative journalist best known for his reporting in connection with the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. He is a Senior Correspondent for The American Prospect, and a contributor to the Boston Phoenix, Government Executive, The Nation, National Journal, Salon, and The Village Voice, specializing in intelligence and national security affairs.

In 2003 Vest was named an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. As a freelance reporter he has written for The Atlantic Monthly, U.S. News & World Report, Columbia Journalism Review, and Mother Jones.

Vest was recognized in 2002 by the American Journalism Review as an "Unsung Hero of Washington Journalism".

At last report (2007), Vest was teaching journalism in Indianapolis.