Barton Gellman

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Barton Gellman is a journalist writing for the Washington Post. Gellman shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize National Reporting with other members of the newspaper's staff, honored for its "comprehensive coverage of America's war on terrorism, which regularly brought forth new information together with skilled analysis of unfolding developments." Gellman contributed an important October 3, 2001 article about failed efforts to catch Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks. [1]

Gellman has subsequently broken important stories about the use of intelligence leading to the war in Iraq, including the first public reporting on the secretive White House Iraq Group. Gellman has made significant contributions to the popular understanding of the ongoing CIA leak scandal.[2]

Gellman is a graduate of Princeton and Oxford universities, attending the latter as a Rhodes Scholar.[3]