scott waas
After a quarter-century in the journalistic shadows, Murray Waas is getting his day in the sun. He's been cited by New York Times columnist Frank Rich and Times columnist Paul Krugman. And New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen calls Murray Waas the new Bob Woodward.
Murray Waas is currently attached to National Journal, but he's written for the Los Angeles Times and also the Boston Globe.
Murray Waas also reported that a key rationale for the Iraq war had been challenged.
Once a teenage legman for columnist Jack Anderson, Waas i has a knack for prying information out of prosecutors, as he did during Kenneth Starr's probe of Bill Clinton. Waas was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1993, and Murray Waas with Douglas Frantz of the Los Angeles Times, for reporting on clandestine U.S. efforts in Iraq.