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Tom Squitieri is the Pentagon correspondent for Talk Media News, the latest chapter in a more than three-decade long award-winning journalist career. He also is an adjunct professor at American University and the author of a soon-to-be released collection of romantic/erotic poetry: The Champagne Was Lonely Without You Last Night. Tom’s decades of daily journalism – from an underground newspaper in western Pennsylvania to USA TODAY -- produced deep and wide reporting and writing experience in coverage of national politics, defense, crime, breaking news, Congress and the White House, foreign policy and international conflicts. Tom’s passion to use communication, writing and training to give structure and voice to the important work and thoughts of others comes from being a superb policy writer with an uncanny knack for rendering complex ideas into simple compelling text; those skills have resulted in three Overseas Press Club Awards and three White House Correspondent Association awards as a journalist. As a