Murray S. Waas

Following the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, in 1993, along with colleague Douglas Frantz, Murray Waas 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, Waas was also a recipient of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, for "a series that detailed United States policy toward Iraq before the Persian Gulf war.

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

Investigative reporter Murray Waas has been putting together a compelling narrative about how President Bush and top aides contrived their bogus case for war in Iraq.

What emerges in Waas's stories is a consistent White House modus operandi: That time and time again, Bush and his aides have selectively leaked or declassified intelligence findings.