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Covers:  national security, law enforcement, politics
Independent journalist. w/articles in the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the NYT. Retweets represent a diversity of opinion, not my own point of view.

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Murray Waas’s Biography

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Murray Waas has worked as the investigations editor for VICE, as an investigative reporter for Reuters, and as a senior editor for National Journal. He has also written or reported for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, ABC News, and the PBS documentary series, "Frontline".

For much of his career, he has specialized in reporting about national security and intelligence matters, but has most recently also taken on re…

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Exclusive: top FBI officials could testify against Trump

Exclusive: top FBI officials could testify against Trump

Shortly after the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in May, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe tol…

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Exclusive: top FBI officials could testify against Trump

Exclusive: top FBI officials could testify against Trump

Shortly after the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in May, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe tol…

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Reuters Is Excellent in Digging Up a Health Insurer's Tactics

Reuters Is Excellent in Digging Up a Health Insurer's Tactics

Reuters has an eye-opening investigation today showing how the health-insurance company Assurant Health (form…

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Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize - Shorenstein Center

Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize - Shorenstein Center

The annual Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting honors investigative reporting that best promotes more…

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Dan Froomkin - A Compelling Story

Dan Froomkin - A Compelling Story

Slowly but surely, investigative reporter Murray Waas has been putting together a compelling narrative about …

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Articles

John Eastman claimed that he had no time for his disbarment hearing. Yet somehow he found the time to file another lawsuit to disenfranchise voters.

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By Murray Waas 
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Attorney John Eastman, who was recently indicted by a state grand jury in Georgia on nine felony counts related to his role as an architect of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, is a busy man.
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Exclusive: Mark Meadows removed classified documents from the White House the last night of Donald Trump's presidency.

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By Murray Waas 
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Former president Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, removed more than a thousand pages of classified documents from the White House late at night on the final evening of Trump’s presidency. according to government records and interviews with several individuals with first-hand knowledge of the matter. Rule of Law by Murray Waas is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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EXCLUSIVE: After he left office, Donald Trump ordered his chief of staff to leak classified information to the press about an FBI agent and other adversaries. Experts believe that may be a felony.

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By Murray Waas 
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Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Getty Earlier stories on the Russia papers: Part 2, Part 1. Months after he had left office, former president Donald Trump, directed his former chief-of-staff, Mark Meadows to leak highly classified government records regarding Peter Strzok, the former Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, to the press.
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Awards

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

1993 - Investigative Journalism

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism, John Fl Kennedy School, Harvard University

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Pulitzer Prize

1992 - National Reporting
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