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Kim Barker has been a reporter at ProPublica since 2010, writing stories on campaign finance and the aftermath of the BP oil spill that have run in outlets such as The Washington Post, The Atlantic and Salon. She's specialized in "dark money," or social welfare nonprofits that do not report their donors for election ads. In late 2009 and early 2010, Barker was the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where she studied, wrote and lectured on Pakistan and Afghanistan and U.S. policy. She was the South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009 and was based in New Delhi and Islamabad. At the Tribune, Barker covered major stories such as the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and rising militancy in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her book about those years, "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan," was published by Doubleday in March 2011.

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Revealed: Man Sought in Plot to Influence U.S. Politics Is Prominent Figure in Pakistan

July 20, 2011, 9:03 p.m.

Investigators say Pakistani-American doctor helped launder money sent by Pakistani intelligence to U.S. politicians

In An Unusual Criminal Case, the U.S. Points the Finger at Pakistan’s Top Spy Agency Again

July 19, 2011, 11:24 p.m.

In an indictment unsealed Tuesday, the FBI accused two men of funneling millions of dollars from the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, into political campaign donations and other activities meant to influence American policy on Kashmir.

Spillionaires Revisited: Gov’t Official’s Associates Got Big Contracts After the BP Oil Spill

July 18, 2011, 11:06 a.m.

Craig Taffaro, president of Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish, has denied allegations in an earlier ProPublica story, but new reporting shows that longtime associates got lucrative spill-related work—and then they helped raise money for his re-election.

An AWKward Relationship: The U.S. and Its Ties to Hamid Karzai’s Half-Brother

July 13, 2011, 3:53 p.m.

Ahmed Wali Karzai, assassinated earlier this week, was repeatedly accused of corruption and drug-dealing but remained a key Western ally and power broker in southern Afghanistan.

Super-PACs and Dark Money: ProPublica’s Guide to the New World of Campaign Finance

July 11, 2011, 12:38 p.m.

As the nation gets ready for more record-breaking election spending, here’s a closer look at the secretive groups working hard to influence the outcome.

Inside the Campaign to Release Al-Jazeera English Journalist Dorothy Parvaz

May 23, 2011, 7 p.m.

Dorothy Parvaz’s supporters created a Facebook page, tweeted, and sent emails but felt their missives were disappearing into the ether, ignored by an Iranian regime that listens to no one.

U.S. Officials Equate Pakistani Spy Agency With Terror Groups in Leaked Documents

April 25, 2011, 3:35 p.m.

Material published by Wikileaks and the Guardian gives a more detailed picture of U.S.-Pakistan relations, one colored by deep suspicion.

Gulf’s Delacroix Islanders Watch As Their World Disappears

April 13, 2011, 12:05 p.m.

The BP oil spill is just the latest disaster to hit a fishing community that has struggled with hurricanes, erosion and competition from cheap imports. The fishermen ask themselves about the future and worry that they may be the last of their kind.

‘Spillionaires’: Profiteering and Mismanagement in the Wake of the BP Oil Spill

April 13, 2011, 12:05 p.m.

Some people profited by charging BP outrageous rates for cleanup. Others profited from BP claims money, handed out in arbitrary ways. Meanwhile, others hurt by the spill ended up getting much less.

Female Foreign Correspondents’ Code of Silence, Finally Broken

Feb. 19, 2011, 4:39 p.m.

Lessons learned from CBS News Correspondent Lara Logan.

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