He received a Polk Award in 2010 for coverage (with colleague Dexter Filkins) of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in 2008 won the Livingston Award in the category of national reporting for breaking the story of the C.I.A.’s destruction of videotapes showing the torture of Al Qaeda detainees. One of the biggest changes is how the CIA receives authority to start killing terrorists. Mark Mazzetti describes the changes during this shadow war the CIA goes through after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Mazzetti is a three-time winner of the George Polk Award, most recently for his work on The Times’ team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The Way of the Knife tells the details behind a shadow war taking place in both ally and enemy territory. While with The Economist, he covered national politics, including the candidacy of George W Bush, as well as business, general news and culture stories in the Southwest. News, he worked as a correspondent for The Economist, based in Washington, D.C. During the war in Iraq in 2003, he spent two months embedded with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and as a reporter in Baghdad. News & World Report, covering defense and national security.

From 2001 through 2004 he was the Pentagon correspondent for U.S.

The previous year, he was a Pulitzer finalist for reporting on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program.īefore joining The Times, Mazzetti was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where he covered the Pentagon and military affairs from June 2004 until April 2006. In 2009, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the intensifying violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Washington’s response. In 2018, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Donald Trump’s advisers and their connections to Russia. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

He is the author of The Way of the Knife: The CIA, A Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth, which was published in 2013 and became a New York Times bestseller. Mark Mazzetti is a Washington Investigative Correspondent for The New York Times.

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