M Scott Waas

Readers fascinated by politics and the law will want to pick up this book, which features edited trial transcripts from the federal case against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, who was convicted of obstruction of justice in the investigation of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

“Murray Waas is our Woodward now...publishing the biggest story in town.”—Jay Rosen, PressThink.
“Murray Waas has been putting together a compelling narrative about how Bush and his top aides contrived a bogus case for war in Iraq.”—Dan Froomkin, WashingtonPost.com
“Murray Waas is pretty impressive….he just keeps whaling away with discrete fact after discrete fact until, finally, he sinks the sucker.“— Columbia Journalism Review
“[Waas] suggests a plausible motive for Scooter Libby to have misled the grand jury about Plame.”—Greg Sargent.
“Murray Waas is getting his day …The freelance investigative reporter has racked up a series of scoops. —Howard Kurtz.