Dana Priest

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Full Name	Dana Priest
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	May 23, 1957(1957-05-23)
Age	67
Birthplace	Canoga Park
Country	United States
Horoscope	Taurus

Dana Priest Biography

Dana Priest is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 23, 1957 in Canoga Park, United States. Dana Louise Priest (born May 23rd 1957) is an American journalist, writer , and educator. She worked for over 30 years at The Washington Post and became the third John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2014. Prior to becoming a full-time investigative reporter for The Post, Priest specialized in intelligence reporting. She wrote a number of reports about”the” U.S. “War on terror” and served as the newspaper’s Pentagon reporter. In 2006, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting with a focus on “her persevering, meticulous reportage on the hidden “black sites” prisons and other controversial features of the government’s counter-terrorism campaign.” The Washington Post won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service by citing the efforts of journalists Priest as well as Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille “exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials.”

In February of 2006, Priest was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting for her article in November 2005 about hidden CIA detention facilities located in other countries. Priest also disclosed the existence of Counterterrorist Intelligence Centers (CTIC) in an article published on November 17 2005 front page article. They are operations centers that are that are jointly operated by the CIA and foreign intelligence agencies. They are located at the Alliance Base in Paris, with the DGSE as well as other security agencies is among the largest CTIC.

On April 21, 2006, The New York Times claimed that a European Union investigation, under the direction of the Swiss senator Dick Marty, has not proved the existence of secret CIA prisons in Europe. But, Dick Marty’s report, published in June 2006, showed that 14 European countries had participated in the CIA’s extraordinary renditions, using various airports and military bases (i.e. Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Lajes Field in the Azores, etc.). US President George W. Bush later acknowledged the existence of secret prisons operated by the CIA during a speech on September 6, 2006.

On February 18, 2007 Priest and Anne Hull exposed degrading conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for outpatient Iraq War veterans. The story caused an uproar across the United States and resulted in the resignation of Secretary of the Army, Francis J. Harvey.

The article is titled “CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons” The article, which was published in The Washington Post above the fold on November 2, 2005 claims that there are secret extraterritorial, CIA interrogation centers. The article ignited a global discussion about the existence of these “black sites.” The article brought up-to-date revelations from one year ago of Priest along with investigative reporter Joe Stephens. Priest’s piece reveals that, in addition to the more than 750 Guantanamo Bay detainees who were in military detention The CIA kept around 30 senior members of al Qaeda and Taliban leadership as well as around 100 foot soldiers at their own facilities across the globe. She also noted that several ex-members of the Soviet Bloc countries had allowed the CIA to establish interrogation facilities in their territories.

Dana Priest Net Worth

Dana Priest is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dana Priest 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Priest Author of the book The Mission of War: Waging Wars and Restoring Peace with America’s Military. She was an invited academic for the U.S. Institute of Peace. She was the recipient of the MacArthur grant and in 2001, the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Outstanding reporting regarding the National Defense in 2001, as well as the 2004 NY Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for excellence in journalism.

As an investigative reporter for the national security, Priest regularly engaged in long-lasting online conversations with readers on these topics through The Washington Post website. In April of 2011, Priest participated in a panel discussion titled “Could the media break a story like Watergate today?” along with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the University of Texas at Austin. Before that 2003 war in Iraq, Priest and fellow Post reporter Karen DeYoung filed a story together with their editors about how were told by the CIA had serious doubts about documents claiming an attempted purchase of uranium, however they did not publish the story until after Post did not release the report until March 22nd, 2003, following the start of the war.

Priest said that President Bush, former vice president Cheney and other National Security Council members personally tried to persuade the Post not to publish the story in a White House meeting, but that executive editor Leonard Downie made the decision to proceed. In an interview, Priest confirmed that the CIA had referred her story to the Justice Department, and that various Congressmembers have called for an inquiry, to determine whether she or her sources had broken any laws. The Post reported on April 21, 2006, that a CIA employee, Mary O. McCarthy, was fired for allegedly leaking classified information to Priest and other journalists. The allegation has been disputed by McCarthy and by the Post.

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Who is Dana Priest Dating?

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Dana Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dana Priest celebrates birthday on May 23 of every year.