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 Times revealed that the government, in the name of national security, was systematically tapping into international telephone calls and e-mail traffic in the U.S. without court warrants. Risen and Lichtblau’s uncovering of this issue has created a national debate over what is necessary surveillance and what is a blatant violation of the law and an infringement on civil liberties.
This team of reporters covered the trial of Ahmed Ressam, following their leads to the little-known international terrorist network to which Ressam belonged, its links to Osama Bin Laden, and the high level of terrorist threat facing the United States.
Journalists Russel Carollo, Carol Hernandez, Cheryl Reed and Jeff Nesmith published a series of investigations, reporting on the lenient handling of sexual misconduct cases by the military justice system.
In a continuing series of articles, that first appeared in the Los Angeles Times, journalists Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas documented the clandestine efforts of the US government to supply money and weapons to Iraq in the 1980s in the lead-up to the Gulf War. The focus was on exposing the duplicity and hypocrisy of the Bush administration on Iraq.