Jan 18 2008
U.S. News and World Report: “A Muckraker’s Day in the Sun”
Washington investigative journalist Murray Waas , 47, has been around awhile. As a teenager, he left George Washington University just shy of a political science degree to start his reporting career working for legendary muckraker Jack Anderson . And he’s been ruffling official feathers since the Clinton Whitewater/Lewinsky imbroglio, when his stories on Salon.com took a prodigious swing at dismantling special prosecutor Kenneth Starr’s $40 million investigation.
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Yet the slightly disheveled Philly native has always managed to remain well under the public’s radar – refusing to appear on television, toiling independently as a freelancer until recently joining the respected National Journal, and always working the phones and a network of sources from his Northwest Washington home.
But his cover’s been blown. With the publication in recent months of his news-breaking stories on the Bush administration’s involvement in manipulating prewar Iraq intelligence – particularly its attempt to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and to out his CIA operative wife, Valerie Plame – Waas has gotten a sometimes bitter taste of what he refers to as his “five minutes of fame.” He’s now dealing not only with sources and editors but also pesky cable television bookers who never get the answer they want and new interest in his personal and professional life.
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