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Revision as of 12:24, 20 June 2007 by NYScholar (talk | contribs) (tc (format) & updated citations)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Murray S. Waas (born ca. 1959) is an American freelance investigative journalist noted most recently for his coverage of the White House planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensuing controversies such as the CIA leak scandal (2003). His recent articles have appeared in The American Prospect, The National Journal, and Salon. He also comments on such contemporary American political controversies in his blog Whatever Already!
His "instant book" on United States v. Libby, entitled The United States v. I. Lewis Libby ("Edited and reported by Murray Waas") was published by Sterling Publishing's Union Square Press imprint on 5 June 2007.
Personal history
Waas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and originally hoped to pursue a career in local politics, but he dropped out of George Washington University before graduating. He currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Professional career
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While still attending college, he began working for Jack Anderson. Waas's journalistic work has been published in a number of publications, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Village Voice, and The Boston Globe. In his twenties he was a staff writer and investigative correspondent for the Village Voice. During the Reagan administration, Waas was among a small group of reporters in breaking the story of the Iran-Contra affair. He reported on the Whitewater and Clinton impeachment for Salon.com.
In 1993, while a reporter for the The Los Angeles Times, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of national reporting for his stories detailing the first Bush administration's prewar foreign policy towards the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. That same year, he was also a winner of Harvard University's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The previous year, 1992, he had been a fellow with the Alicia Patterson Foundation, during which time he investigated substandard conditions and questionable deaths at institutions for the mentally retarded, mental hospitals, nursing homes, jails, prisons, and other publicly run facilities.
His reporting on the George W. Bush administration, especially the CIA leak scandal (2003), has been called "groundbreaking" by New York University journalism Professor Jay Rosen, who considers Waas the "new Bob Woodward".
In the May 15, 2006 interview with Halloran, when she asked whether he was "working on stories other than those involving the Fitzgerald investigation," Waas indicated that he has "been working on a long, explanatory piece about healthcare issues, the cervical cancer vaccine." Among the questions that he raised with Halloran are: "Why isn't that vaccine going to get to the people it should get to? Is it going to be locked away?"
Main article: CervarixWhen Halloran asked the subject of his "next story," he identified it as "another story about the level of knowledge among high-level administration officials about attempts to discredit Wilson and when they knew about it." Several of his later published accounts of that aspect of the CIA leak scandal inform his Union Square Press book on the Libby case published in June 2007, which he discusses in some detail in his interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!.<ref name=Goodman>*Amy Goodman, "Ex-Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby Convicted of Perjury, Obstruction in CIA Leak Trial", interview with Murray Waas and Marcy Wheeler, Democracy Now!, March 7, 2007, accessed June 20, 2007.
See also
Notes
- ^ Press release, Sterling Publishing, March 6, 2007, downloadable document file from publisher's "press room" (miscoded filename as PDF; it is a DOC file: US_v_ILewisLibby_Release.doc"); see catalogue description; both accessed June 18, 2007. (Jeff Lomonaco, a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, assisted Waas with research.)
- ^ Liz Halloran, "A Muckraker's Day in the Sun", interview with Murray Waas, U.S. News and World Report 15 May, 2006, accessed 29 April, 2007.
- Jay Rosen, "Murray Waas Is Our Woodward Now", PressThink (blog), April 9, 2006, accessed June 20, 2007.
References
- Goodman, Amy, "Ex-Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby Convicted of Perjury, Obstruction in CIA Leak Trial". Interview with Murray Waas and Marcy Wheeler. Democracy Now!, March 7, 2007. Accessed June 20, 2007.
- Halloran, Liz. "A Muckraker's Day in the Sun". U.S. News and World Report, May 15, 2006. Accessed April 29, 2007.
- Kurtz, Howard. "The Lone Ranger: After a Quarter Century in the Journalistic Shadows, Murray Waas Is Getting His Day in the Sun." The Washington Post, April 17, 2006. Accessed June 20, 2007.
- Rosen, Jay. "Murray Waas Is Our Woodward Now". PressThink (blog), April 9, 2006. Accessed June 20, 2007.
- Waas, Murray. "A Reporter's Bias". The Huffington Post, June 25, 2006.
- –––, ed. The United States v. I. Lewis Libby. New York: Union Square Press (imprint of Sterling Publishing), 2007. ISBN 1402752598 (10). ISBN 978-1402752599 (13). (Ed. with reporting by Murray Waas and research assistance by Jeff Lomonaco.)
External links
- American Prospect story index (2001-2005)
- National Journal story index (2005-2007)
- Salon.com story index (2006)
- Whatever Already! Murray Waas's blog
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