Amanda Macias (born c. 1990) is an American journalist who reports on national security subjects for the financial news network CNBC.
[8] She later joined Reuters as a field producer in Brussels, Belgium where she covered EU political institutions and NATO.
[9][2] In 2018, Macias joined financial news network CNBC as a national security reporter.
[3] Macias' source, a counterterrorism analyst, leaked classified intelligence reports to her and another journalist at NBC News according to federal prosecutors.
[15][16] The analyst, Henry Frese, pled guilty to agreeing to disclose classified information because it would support Macias' career and was sentenced to 30 months in prison but was released early.