Journalist Murray S. Waas

Following the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, in 1993, while a reporter for the The Los Angeles Times, Waas, and colleague Douglas Frantz, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of national reporting for his stories detailing that administration's prewar foreign policy towards the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. That same year, Murray Waas was also a recipient of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center on The Press, of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. Reporters Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas won for "a series that detailed United States policy toward Iraq prior to the Persian Gulf war.

More recently, Waas has worked as national correspondent of National Journal.

Summarizing the stories that Waas wrote about the second Bush administration's policies that led up to war with Iraq, columnist Dan Froomkin, wrote:

Slowly but surely, investigative reporter Murray Waas has been putting together a compelling narrative about how President Bush and his top aides contrived their bogus case for war in Iraq.