The Pulitzer Prize Board
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To the Pulitzer Prize Board:
Journalist Kenneth Timmerman’s new book Shadow Warriors charges—and cites evidence—that Washington Post reporter Dana Priest’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning story on CIA “secret prisons” was based largely on the work of London-based journalist Stephen Grey. Priest did not give Grey any credit for his work, even though his story on the same subject had appeared 18 months earlier in the British New Statesman. In order to safeguard integrity and honesty in journalism, we ask that you review the circumstances surrounding the awarding of this prize.