Whistleblowers! Tim King on the Fast & Furious scandal

Whistleblowers is presented in coordination with Marvel Reid and the Whistleblowers Summit annual event, every July in Washington DC.

Our guest this evening is Tim King, nationally known reporter whose columns appear as a regular contribution to the Veterans Today website.  We will be discussing the Fast & Furious gun running scandal and whatever else gets our attention.

Bio from Veterans Today

Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor.

Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting.

Tim has several years of experience in network affiliate news TV stations, having worked as a reporter and photographer at NBC, ABC and FOX stations in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon