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

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

Summarizing the stories that Waas wrote for National Journal during 2005 and 2006 about the second Bush administration's policies that led up to war with Iraq,

White House columnist Dan Froomkin, wrote on:

Slowly but surely, investigative reporter Murray Waas has been putting together a compelling narrative about how President Bush and his top aide