From the book jacket of the “U.S. v. I. Lewis Libby”, by Murray Waas

Washington scandals come and go, but the one surrounding the investigation into the leaking of covert CIA operative’s Valerie’s identity has had unprecedented staying power, lasting into the fourth year. The most recent chapter of he saga occured on March 6, 2007, when I. Lewis Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was convicted by a jury of four counts of making false statements to the FBI, perjury, and obstruction of justice. To tell the full story of the trial from start to finish, Murray Waas, one of today’s finest investigative journaists, has combined pivotal testimony from all trial wintesses with his own original, incisive reporting, and a compelling essay. No one is better qualified, or has done more, to inform the public of these shrouded events than Waas, who covered the Plame inquirty extensively for the National Journal. This definitive study is sure to become one of the most significant political documents on a signature scandal of George W. Bush’s preseidency.

Murray Waas biography from “The United States v. I. Lewis Libby”

Biographies of Murray Waas and Jeff Lomonaco from “The United States v. I. Lewis Libby”

Murray Waas is an investigative journalist based in Washington D.C. His ground-breaking reporting on the CIA leak case has been published in the National Journal. His reporting was cited by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in a letter to Scooter Libby’s lawyers, leading to the end of Judith Miller’s eighty-five day jail term. He blogs regularly for the Huffington Post, at Whatever Already!, and his personal blog.

Waas’ investigative reporting has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the New Yorker, Salon, the Nation, and the American Prospect.

His reporting on the Arkansas Project and the roots of the Whitewater scandal first brought him to the notice of many readers in the 1990s. In his late teens, he worked for the legendary Jack Anderson, and then as a writer for the Village Voice.

In 1993, Waas was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has also been a winner of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Douglas Frantz of the Los Angeles Times, who sahred reporting credit with Waas on the Pulitzer-nominated stories says, “He’s a dogged reporter with an amazing capacity to get sensitive documents.”

Steve Lovelady of the Columbia Journalism Review said of his reporting: “Murray Waas is pretty impressive… he just keeps whaling away with discrete fact after discrete fact until, finally, he sinks that sucker.”

Jeff Lomonaco, the co-editor of the book, is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. He received his P.H.D. from John Hopkins University in 1999 and his B.A. from Amherst College in 1991. His writing has appeared in the American Prospect, the journal “Ethics and International Affairs,” and the Journal of the History of Ideas.

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