Chip Gibbons is a writer, journalist, and policy advocate focusing on the abuses of the US national security at home and abroad.
He is currently working on completing a political history and present-day analysis of the FBI, domestic political surveillance, and the rise of the US national security state to be published by Verso Books.
He has covered the Espionage Act proceedings against Julian Assange and Daniel Hale for Jacobin. In 2020, he published an exposé at The Intercept based on his half decade long quest to force the FBI to release documents pertaining to its surveillance of nonviolent Palestinian solidarity activists.
He serves as policy director for Defending Rights & Dissent, where he has advised members of the US Congress on reforming the Espionage Act and reining the FBI’s domestic intelligence powers.
