Writer Murray S. Waas

Following the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, in 1993, Los Angeles Times reporter Murray Waas, and colleague Douglas Frantz, 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, Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas were also recipients of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center on The Press at Harvard University. Reporters Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas won for "a series that detailed United States policy toward Iraq prior to the Persian Gulf war.

More recently, Waas worked for National Journal.

Summarizing the stories that Waas wrote about the second Bush administration's policies that led up to war with Iraq, columnist Dan Froomkin, wrote this about Waas' Iraq war reporting.