Washington Post reporter Dana Priest
to give talk on human rights after 9/11
Dana Priest, a reporter covering national security issues for
the Washington Post, and an analyst and correspondent
for NBC News, will give a talk on Monday, May 9, from noon to
1:30 p.m. at the Namaste Lounge at Colleges Nine and Ten. The
title of her presentation is "America's Disappeared:
The CIA and Human Rights After 9-11."
Dana Priest, interviewing an Afghan
farmer in this photo, was profiled in the UCSC Review
magazine in 2003 (profile).
Photo: NBC/Norman Ng
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Priest's book about the military's expanding responsibility
and influence, The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace
With America's Military, was published in 2003 by W. W.
Norton & Co. It won the prestigious New York Public Library
Bernstein Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Priest, a UCSC alumna (Merrill '81), has worked at the Post
for 18 years. She was the Pentagon correspondent for seven years
and then wrote exclusively about the military as an investigative
reporter. She covered the invasion of Panama (1989), reported
from Iraq in late 1990 just before the war began, reported on
the 1999 Kosovo war from air bases in Europe, on the Special
Forces in Afghanistan in 2001, and with the secretary of defense
in Iraq in 2003.
She has written extensively about the military's four regional
commanders, traveled widely with Army Special Forces in Asia,
Africa, and South America, and reported with Army peacekeeping
units deployed in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Priest has
written extensively on the intelligence lapses that led up to
the attacks of September 11, the failure of prewar intelligence
in Iraq, the government's covert war against suspected terrorists
around the world, and the interrogation scandal at Abu Ghraib
and elsewhere.
In 2001, Priest was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Research
and Writing grant and was a guest scholar in residence at the
U.S. Institute of Peace. The same year, she won the Gerald R.
Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the National Defense
for her series "The Proconsuls: A Four-Star Foreign Policy?"
and the State Department's Excellence in Journalism Award for
the same series. She was the guest speaker and host for a four-part
speaking series on the U.S. Military and Foreign Policy for
the State Department's "Secretary's Open Forum."
Priest lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two
children. She appears regularly on NBC's Meet The Press,
Hardball, and MSNBC as well as contributing regularly to
NBC Nightly News.
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This event is sponsored by CGIRS, the Global Information Internship
Program, College Nine, and the Center for Justice, Tolerance
and Community.
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