Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Gellman and Becker’s four-part series examined the most powerful vice president in history, providing a greater public understanding of the Bush-Cheney era.
Harvesting Cash
Washington Post reporters Dan Morgan, Gilbert M. Gaul and Sarah Cohen spent more than a year examining federal agriculture subsidies and identified more than $15 billion in wasteful, unnecessary and redundant spending.
The CIA’s Secret War Against Terrorism
Priest’s series of articles uncovered the inner workings, successes and failures of the CIA’s global effort to kill, capture and interrogate suspected terrorists, revealing the existence of a network of secret prisons outside the U.S.
The Abramoff Scandal
Throughout 2005, in articles that broke the major revelations, the Post unraveled Abramoff’s web and his ties to then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Big Green
The Washington Post exposed wayward practices by the Nature Conservancy, the nation’s largest private environmental group.
A Blue Wall of Silence – False Confessions
A series that documented systematic abuses, including excessive shootings and questionable murder confessions, in the Prince George’s County police department.
Shell Games: The Search for Iraq’s Hidden Weapons
United States intelligence services infiltrated agents and espionage equipment for three years into United Nations arms control teams in Iraq to eavesdrop on the Iraqi military without the knowledge of the U.N. agency that it used to disguise its work, according to U.S. government employees and documents describing the classified operation.
How Medicaid Grew
Murder on Trial
Murder on Trial is a four-part series by Athelia Knight that examines three years of homicides in the District of Columbia. The articles provide insights into the low rates of conviction and the heavy caseload crushing the criminal justice system.