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He later spent six months in the Middle East, reporting from inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and around the region before embedding with the U.S. 11, 2001, and he spent the next eight months covering the overthrow of the Taliban and the emergence of a new government. He was the first American newspaper journalist to report from rebel-held northern Afghanistan after Sept. Baker also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In between stints at the White House, Baker and his wife, Susan Glasser, spent four years as Moscow bureau chiefs, chronicling the rise of Vladimir Putin, the rollback of Russian democracy, the Second Chechen War and the terrorist attack on a theater in Moscow and the Beslan school hostage crisis. During his next White House assignment, he covered the travails of Bush's second term, from the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina to Supreme Court nomination fights and the economy.
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He subsequently published his first book, The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton through Scribner, a New York Times bestseller based on his coverage of the impeachment proceedings in Congress. ĭuring his first tour at the White House, Baker co-authored the paper's first story about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and served as the paper's lead writer during the subsequent impeachment battle. Prior to joining The New York Times in 2008, Baker was a reporter for 20 years at The Washington Post, where he covered the White House during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W.
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His father was a lawyer and his mother a computer programmer. Baker was born in 1967, the son of Linda Gross (later Sinrod) and E.