Declan McCullagh Declan McCullagh is the chief political correspondent and a senior writer for CNET's news.com. An award-winning journalist, he writes and speaks frequently about technology, law, and politics. For the last four years, he has been the Washington bureau chief for Wired News. Previously he was a reporter for Time Digital Daily, Time's The Netly News, and Time Magazine, as well as a correspondent for HotWired. McCullagh moderates Politech, a well-known mailing list looking broadly at politics and technology that he founded in 1994.