Henry Holt and Co.
(Metropolitan Books)
American Empire Project Series
400 pages, Hardcover
$27.50
November 2005
ISBN: 0-8050-7652-2Buy the BookFor an author-signed copy (hardcover), send a check for $10 plus $3 shipping costs to:
Robert Dreyfuss
P.O. Box 7204
Alexandria VA 22307
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Bio
For more than fifteen years, I have worked as
an independent journalist who specializes in
magazine features, profiles, and
investigative stories in the areas of
politics and national security. In 2001, I
was profiled as a leading investigative
journalist by the Columbia Journalism
Review, and two of my articles have won
awards from The Washington Monthly.
In 2003, I was awarded Project Censored’s
first prize for a story on the role of oil
in U.S. policy toward Iraq. I have appeared
on scores of radio and television talk
shows, including Hannity and Colmes on Fox News, C-Span, CNBC, MSNBC, Court
TV, and, on National Public Radio, The
Diane Rehm Show and Public Interest
with Kojo Nnamdi, and Pacifica's Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.
Based in Alexandria, Va., I have been
writing for Rolling Stone for at
least a decade, and currently I cover
national security for Rolling Stone’s
National Affairs section. I’m a contributing
editor at The Nation, a contributing writer
at Mother Jones, and a senior correspondent
for The American Prospect. My
articles have also appeared in The Washington Monthly, The New
Republic, Newsday, Worth, California Lawyer,
The Texas Observer, E, In These Times, The
Detroit Metro Times, Public Citizen, Extra!,
and, in Japan, in Esquire, Foresight
and Nikkei Business.
Perhaps I am best known for what I consider
to be ground-breaking stories about the war
in Iraq, the war on terrorism, and post-9/11
U.S. foreign policy. In 2002, I wrote the
first significant
profile of Ahmed
Chalabi by a journalist, for
The American Prospect. Also in 2002, I
also wrote the first analysis of the war
between the Pentagon and the CIA over policy
toward Iraq, which included the first
important
account of the
Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans.
Other stories in The American Prospect
included detailed accounts of
neoconservative war
plans for the broader Middle East.
In 2004, I co-authored what is still the
most complete account of the work of the
Office of Special Plans in manufacturing
misleading or false intelligence about Iraq,
for Mother Jones, entitled “The
Lie Factory.”
Before 9/11, I wrote extensively about
intelligence issues, including pieces about
post-Cold War
excursions by the CIA
into economic espionage, about
the CIA’s
nonofficial cover
(NOC) program, and about
lobbying by U.S.
defense and intelligence contractors
over the annual secret intelligence budget.
Among my many other pieces, I’ve profiled
organizations, including the
Democratic Leadership
Council, the
Center for American
Progress, the National Rifle
Association, the NAACP, the Human Rights
Campaign, and Handgun Control. I’ve
profiled Vermont
Governor Howard Dean, Senate
Majority Leader Trent Lott, House Majority
Whip Tom DeLay, conservative activist
Grover Norquist,
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Bill
Thomas, Senator John McCain, and, in 1999,
Texas Governor George W. Bush. One of my
most important pieces was the result of a
weeks-long visit to Vietnam in 1999, where I
wrote about the
effects of Agent
Orange dioxin in Vietnam since
the 1970s. My stories on the privatization
of Social Security and the politics of
Medicare and Medical Savings Accounts have
been widely cited.
I’m a member of the American Society of
Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). I
graduated from Columbia University. |
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