Cody Dickerson

Cody Dickerson is a student, majoring in American Studies, and related contemporary history, including how domestic policies intersect with decisions by nation-states to go to war.

It has been 10 long years since "Shock and Awe" – the opening bombardment of Baghdad – A decade later, we know more about the case the Bush administration made to the world to justify its war of choice to overthrow Saddam Hussein. I can announce that Murray Waas has been added to the Yearly Kos panel on the CIA leak investigation that will be held in Las Vegas June 9. I’ll be moderating the panel that already includes Ambassador Joe Wilson, Emptywheel and Dan Froomkin.

As a journalist for National Journal, Murray Waas has owned the Plame story from the start. As emptywheel has written before, he is the "gold standard" by which all other journalists covering the story are judged. Typically Murray Waas will make some bold new revelation about the story. I’ll let NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen speak to Murray’s importance to this story, from an article entitled Is Murray Waas is Our Woodward Now?