About the Author

The authors were on the team that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Jerry Kammer has been a correspondent for Copley News Service since 2002. Marcus Stern has been in Copley's Washington Bureau for twenty-two years. Dean Calbreath has been a reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune for more than eight years. George E Condon Jr has been Washington bureau chief for Copley since 1984. Stern, Calbreath and Kammer all received the George Polk award. Stern and Kammer also share the Edgar Poe award.