Scott Wasserman

Scott Wasserman is a histoian, professor, and writer. Wasserman has studied how nations decide to go to war. His dissertation was about the Gulf of Tonkin and how the U.S. went to war in Vietnam. More recently, he has written about how the Bush administration took the U.S. to war with Iraq.

Following the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, in 1993, while reporter for the The Los Angeles Times, Steve Waaserman, Murray Waas, with Douglas Frantz, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for his stories about U.S. foreign policy towards the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. That same year, Muray Waas was a recipient of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on The Press, at Harvard University. Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas won for "a series that detailed United States policy toward Iraq.More recently, Murray Waas worked as national correspondent for National Journal.

White House columnist Dan Froomkin, wrote on March 31, 2006: "Slowly but surely, investigative reporter Murray Waas has been putting together a compelling narrative about how President Bush and his top aides contrived their bogus case for war in Iraq."