Covering Intelligence, Part 3: An Interview with Greg Miller of the Washington Post

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🗓️ 15 September 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In Part 3 of this three-part series, SPY Historian Dr. Vince Houghton sat down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Greg Miller, who covers intelligence and national security for the Washington Post. Houghton and Miller discuss the difficulties in reporting on this most secret of topics, the dangers – and benefits – of using anonymous sources, and the ever-changing nature of intelligence and national security journalism. Part 1 of this series was with Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times, and Part 2 was with Ali Watkins of the Huffington Post.

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1:06.0	That's spycloud.com slash cyberwire and we thank spy cloud for sponsoring our show. Hi and welcome to Spycast. From the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
1:33.3	I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the museum's historian and curator.
1:37.0	Every week, the museum brings you interesting conversations with authors, scholars,
1:41.8	and practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.
1:46.6	Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence. We are joined today by Greg Miller who covers the Intelligence Beat for the Washington Post.
2:01.0	He is a winner of an overseas press club award for his contribution to a series of
2:04.6	stories on the war in Afghanistan.
2:07.1	He also has won the Pulitzer Prize for his part in the Washington Post coverage of the
2:11.2	Snowden Affair and is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Washington Post coverage of the Snowden affair and is a finalist for the Pulitzer
2:13.5	Prize in a Washington Post series called permanent war. He has made reporting trips
2:18.0	to countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, and Serbia and
2:21.6	and is a California native, previously working for the Los Angeles
2:24.8	Times for more than 15 years. He is also co-author of a book, The Interrogators Task Force 500
2:30.8	and America's Secret War against Al Qaeda,
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