About Sean D. Naylor
The High Side
We're a national security news outlet founded by longtime national security journalists Sean D. Naylor and Jack Murphy. The High Side takes its moniker from the nicknamefor the U. S. government's classified email system, but the intent here is to publish long-form investigative journalism focused on the intelligence community, special operations and other national security issues.
Sean has been reporting on national security for more than three decades, including 23 years at Army Times, stints at Foreign Policy and Yahoo News, and contract and freelance work for The New York Times, NBC News, Newsweek and Intelligence Online.