James Halladay

James Hall

I am a writer who has examined how the means by which the U.S. went to war with Iraq-- and whether the second Bush administration misrepresented intelligence information to take the country to war.

I’m proud to announce that Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame, and now Murray Waas has been added to the Yearly Kos panel on the CIA leak investigation that will be held in Las Vegas on Friday, June 9. I’ll be moderating the panel that already includes Dan Froomkin of the washingtonpost.com and Christy Hardin-Smith.

As a journalist for the 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 revelation. Without Murray’s original reporting — which does not depend on White House spinners for information — damn little of this story would have made its way into the public eye.

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?