Murray Waas
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Murray Waas has worked as an investigative reporter for Reuters, as the investigative editor and Washington editor for Vice, and senior editor for National Journal. Waas resides in Washington D.C.
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The New York Review of Books
Mike Pence, Star Witness
Story by Murray Waas
Despite strong recommendations from Vice President Mike Pence, then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, and White House Counsel Don McGahn during a February 10, 2017, conversation that the president immediately fire his then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Trump still refused to do, according to confidential White House records. Earlier that day, Pence, Priebus, and McGahn had met in the Situation Room to read classified transcripts of Flynn’s conversations on sanctions with...
The New York Review of Books
Flynn, Comey, and Mueller: What Trump Knew and When He Knew It
By Murray Waas
Previously undisclosed evidence in the possession of Special Counsel Robert Mueller—including highly confidential White House records and testimony by some of President Trump’s own top aides—provides some of the strongest evidence to date implicating the president of the United States in an obstruction of justice. Several people who have reviewed a portion of this evidence say that, based on what they know, they believe it is now all but inevitable that the special counsel will complete a con...
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Murray Waas is Our Woodward Now
"Not only is Woodward not in the hunt, but he is slowly turning into the hunted. Part of what remains to be uncovered is how Woodward was played by the Bush team, and what they thought they were doing by leaking to him, as well as what he did with the dubious information he got."
That person today is investigative journalist Murray Waas, who currently works for National Journal and the Atlantic. Waas has been consistently first on stories related to how the Bush administration misrepresented intelligence to go to war with Iraq an
The guy’s name is Murray Waas; he’s an independent journal...
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Finalist Murray Waas of the Los Angeles Times
Murray Waas was named as a finalist in the category of national reporting for documenting the clandestine effort of the U.S. government to supply money and weapons to Iraq in the 1980's and up to the weeks before the Gulf War.
The New York Review of Books
The Flynn Tapes: A New Tell
By Murray Waas
In early February 2017, a senior White House attorney, John Eisenberg, reviewed highly classified intelligence intercepts of telephone conversations between then-National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Russia’s ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, which incontrovertibly demonstrated that Flynn had misled the FBI about those conversations, according to government records and two people with first-hand knowledge of the matter. It was after this information was relayed to President...
vox.com
Inside the DOJ’s struggle with Trump’s demand for a “Spygate” investigation
By Murray Waas
On the afternoon of June 14, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his long-anticipated and highly critical report about the conduct of former FBI Director James Comey and other high-level Justice Department and FBI officials regarding their handling of the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation.
But largely out of public view, the Inspector General’s Office was in the midst of a perhaps even more consequential matter. Until recently, Deputy...
Foreign Policy
Trump Ordered Bannon to Limit Testimony
Story by Murray Waas
President Donald Trump personally made the decision to curtail the testimony of former chief White House political strategist Steve Bannon before the House Intelligence Committee, according to two people with firsthand knowledge of the matter.
Trump acted to limit Bannon’s testimony based on legal advice provided by Uttam Dhillon, a deputy White House counsel, who concluded that the administration might have legitimate executive privilege claims to restrict testimony by Bannon and other curre...
The New York Review of Books
Murray Waas
Murray Waas is an independent investigative journalist who has reported on the special counsel’s investigation of President Trump and related controversies of the Trump administration for Vox, Foreign Policy, and The New York Times. Waas has worked as investigations editor, most recently, for Vice, as an investigative correspondent for Reuters, and as a staff writer for National Journal. Murray Waas has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Boston Globe, among other publications. He has...
vox.com
Exclusive: Trump pressed Sessions to fire 2 FBI officials who sent anti-Trump text messages
By Murray Waas
President Donald Trump sharply questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray during a White House meeting on January 22 about why two senior FBI officials — Peter Strzok and Lisa Page — were still in their jobs despite allegations made by allies of the president that they had been disloyal to him and had unfairly targeted him and his administration, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
The president also pressed hi...
Foreign Policy
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Murray Waas has worked as an investigations editor for Vice, an investigative reporter for Reuters, and a senior correspondent for National Journal.
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Murray Waas in the New Yorker
IN THE LOOP: BUSH'S SECRET MISSION
By Murray Waas
The New Yorker, November 2, 1992 P. 64
ANNALS OF GOVERNMENT about Iraqgate and the Iran-Contra scandal. Describes an assignment Vice-President George Bush received in 1986 from William Casey: To convey a message through intermediaries to Saddam Hussein: He was to deliver an incendiary message from Washington to Baghdad--escalate the air war and escalate the bombing deep inside Iranian terrotory. The Iranians would then beforced to come to the US for more arms and thus be in a position both to...
The New York Times
At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment
In the months before the Columbia Journalism Review published an article in 2015 about the culture at Vice, and was looking into the treatment of women at the company, lawyers for Vice warned at least one former employee, Murray Waas, who had worked as an investigations editor, about “his strict confidentiality obligations’’ and of the financial penalties he could face for talking to another media outlet.
“I am sure he knows Vice will pursue all of its remedies aggressively,” Michael Delikat, a partner at the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, said in an email sent to Mr. Waas’s lawyer,
The New York Times
Tools of Trump’s Fixer: Payouts, Intimidation and the Tabloids
As accounts of past sexual indiscretions threatened to surface during Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, the job of stifling potentially damaging stories fell to his longtime lawyer and all-around fixer, Michael D. Cohen.
To protect his boss at critical junctures in his improbable political rise, the lawyer relied on intimidation tactics, hush money and the nation’s leading tabloid news business, American Media Inc., whose top executives include close Trump allies.
(Additional reporting by Murray Waas)
The Washington Post
Happy Hour Roundup
* Murray Waas reports that Mike Pence and other White House officials essentially had to manipulate President Trump into firing Michael Flynn, which Trump was unwilling to do, even after they discovered he had lied to the FBI about his contacts with Russians.
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