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JD Johannes is a former Marine, television news producer, US Senate staffer, political campaign manager and Assistant to Kansas' Attorney General. 

In addition to the Outside the Wire documentary series, Johannes has produced commissioned documentaries, television commercials and a series for domestic syndication. 

His written reporting from Iraq has appeared in National Review Online, TCS Daily and the Topeka Capital Journal. 

Johannes plans to return to Iraq in 2008 to film more documentaries and travel to Afghanistan to film a documentary. 

He says the safest place in Iraq is outside the wire on your own two feet.