Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of international affairs
AWARD YEAR: 2005
AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 2005
RECIPIENT: Dana Priest
AFFILIATION: The Washington Post
HONORED WORK: “The CIA’s Secret War”
Priest disclosed that the CIA maintained secret “black-site” prisons throughout Eastern Europe and elsewhere. She brought to light CIA wrongdoing, including the death of a young Afghan man and the mistaken imprisonment of a German citizen. Priest’s painstaking reporting required cultivation of sources within the tight-lipped intelligence world. Her stories resonated worldwide, prompting lawmakers at home and abroad to re-examine appropriate limits to the government’s counterterrorism campaign.
Citation for Excellence:
Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley
The New York Times
“China: Rule by Law”