He is co-author of the books King's Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East with Jack O'Connell, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus with Paula Broadwell,[2][3] and Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story with Jack Devine.
In 2007, he returned to The Philadelphia Inquirer and in 2011, returned to The Washington Post where he covered the Defense Department, and wrote a biweekly column called IntelligenCIA covering the United States Intelligence Community.
[4] Loeb and his Washington Post co-author Susan Schmidt, along with Baltimore Sun columnist Gary Dorsey, wrote the first stories about the rescue of United States Army Private Jessica Lynch in 2003.
The details of the story were later found to be inaccurate and part of a propaganda campaign by The Pentagon.
He is married to broadcast journalist Patricia Ford "Pat" Loeb.