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Dedicated to the Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winning Washington Post Investigative Journalist/Reporter and Book Author
Who Exemplifies Excellence in Investigative Journalism and Reporting
"The military is incredibly overstretched. Barring a miracle and some unforeseen trend, you have great instability and the Iraqi government trying to get on its feet. And the last thing the United States would want is some pocket of that to become a safe haven ... that allows an Al Qaeda-like organization to live and organize in."
-- Dana Priest, June 30, 2004
Dana Priest was a featured graduation speaker at the Columbia University School of Journalism. Ms. Priest delivered the prestigious the Pringle Lecture on Tuesday, May 15, 2007.
Dana Priest CIA Prisons Book The Mission Amazon.com
Dana's recent appearances on Washington Week
Dana Priest writes about national security and intelligence and wrote The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America's Military (W.W. Norton). The book chronicles the increasing frequency with which the military is called upon to solve political and economic problems.
Congratulations to Dana Priest: Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner!
Priest, Hull and du Cille win prestigious Pulitzer Public Service Award for 2007 series exposing conditions and treatment of injured vets at Walter Reed Hospital
"The Post series on Walter Reed, by Dana Priest, Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille, won the public service medal for documenting in vivid detail the substandard treatment for wounded soldiers and poor living conditions marked by cockroaches and mold. The series sparked a political uproar, prompting Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to fire Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey, and a presidential commission later recommended numerous changes.
After numerous false starts, including visits to a downtown strip club where veterans were supposedly being fleeced, "the hard part was making people feel comfortable enough to talk to us," Priest said, "and then to talk to us on the record. . . . It was a hard story emotionally. For the first time, I found myself in tears after interviews. It was very heartbreaking." Du Cille described sneaking into a patient center with his camera hidden in his gym bag.
The award was the second Pulitzer for Priest, who won in 2006 for revealing that the CIA was operating secret prisons in Eastern Europe."
--from the Washington Post article about the 2007 Pulitzers
Congratulations to Dana Priest and her co-award winners!
Dana Priest: on track for another Pulitzer
Dana Priest and co-author Anne Hull have written a devastating investigative exposé series reporting on the invisible, ongoing, behind-the-scenes treatment of injured soldiers and their families by the US Military and its medical, hospital and social services systems.
Special Report: The Other Walter Reed
February 18, 2007 Dana Priest Reports: NBC News Special In-Depth Video Cast
Building 18 and Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital Exposed.
February 18, 2007 Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility
Nearly six years of sustained combat have transformed Walter Reed Army Medical Center into a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients.
Multimedia Photos: The Wounded and Walter Reed
February 19, 2007 The Hotel Aftermath
Inside Mologne House, the Survivors of War Wrestle With Military Bureaucracy and Personal Demons
The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs of the 200-room hotel on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Multimedia Photos: Holding Pattern at Mologne House
February 20, 2007 Hospital Investigates Former Aid Chief
Walter Reed Official Had Own Charity
Michael J. Wagner may have been soliciting donations for his own new charity when he was supposed to be matching donors with wounded soldiers who could not afford to feed their children, pay mortgages, buy plane tickets or put up visiting families in nearby hotels.
Multimedia Photos: Call God for Help