scott waas

Following the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, in 1993, while a reporter for the The Los Angeles Times, Murray Waas, and Douglas Frantz, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of national reporting for their stories detailing that administration's prewar foreign policy towards the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein That same year, Murray 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 honored for "a series that detailed United States policy toward Iraq before the Persian Gulf war.