Eric P. Schmitt | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Schmitt is on the right | |
| Born | November 2, 1959  Minneapolis (United States) |
| Education | bachelor's degree |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Awards | |
Eric P. Schmitt (born November 2, 1959) is an Americanjournalist who writes forThe New York Times.[1][2][3][4][5] He has shared fourPulitzer Prizes.[6]
Schmitt was born inMinneapolis,Minnesota, and raised in theSan Francisco Bay Area. HisBachelor of Arts, inpolitical science andthird worlddevelopment, was awarded byWilliams College in 1982.[6]
He workedreporting oneducation at theTri-City Herald ofKennewick,Washington, for a year.[6]
In 1983 he became an employee ofThe New York Times, and has been there ever since. For his first year, his position was theclerk ofJames Reston, the seniorcolumnist. He covered a variety of areas from 1984 to 1990, including an investigation ofHUD affairs inPuerto Rico in the spring of 1990.[6]
In 1990 he took the title ofPentagonCorrespondent, which led him to cover stories such as theGulf War in early 1991,Somalia in December 1992, andHaiti in September 1994.[6]
In 1996 he became a domestic correspondent covering theUnited States Congress andimmigration.[6]
Upon theSeptember 11 attacks in 2001, he returned to covering the Pentagon, focusing on U.S.national security. As of 2010[update] his assignment is thewar on terrorism.[6]
Schmitt is notable for breaking the story that theObama administration was planning to reverse theBush policy of holding captives inextrajudicial detention in American internment facilities inAfghanistan, without allowing them to learn why they were being held.[7] On September 12, 2009, Schmitt, quoting officials who did not want to go on the record by name, that Bagram captives would be allowed to request to review and challenge the allegations that lead to their detention.
In 2004 Schmitt reported that on the fears of rape held by female GIs inIraq at the hands of their fellow GIs.[8][9] Schmitt was interviewed byNational Public Radio on the DoD's response to the GI's fears.
Schmitt was one of theNew York Times journalists who played a key role in reporting the homicide of several Afghan captives in U.S. custody at theBagram Air Base internment facility in 2003 and 2004.[10][11]
In 2006 Schmitt and a colleague reported on bribery concerns that involvedMajorGloria Davis, an officer in theUnited States Army who was found dead from a gunshot wound shortly thereafter.[12]
In 2011, he published a book,Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda with Thom Shanker, his colleague at theNew York Times. His book provides a more in-depth view of the war on terror and what U.S. intelligence agencies know aboutal-Qaeda's inner workings in anarrative journalism format.[13]
Not so, in my opinion, a news analysis in the New York Times this morning by Eric Schmitt and Scott Shane, neither a slouch when it comes to national security issues...
As Eric Schmitt reports in today's New York Times, FBI agents have been rushing after thousands of terrorism leads, ranging from a missing 55-gallon drum of radioactive material (it was later found on a loading dock) to threats to shopping malls.
A raid by commandoes in Afghanistan has freed captured New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell. As is standard practice, the Times did not announce that the reporter had been kidnapped until after his release. Eric Schmitt, terrorism correspondent for the Times, gives us the details of the rescue as well as the back story.
'For the first time in many years, the intelligence agencies of the U.S. government have come together and have said in the most comprehensive way that the U.S. and allies and Afghan government are in danger of "losing" Afghanistan, essentially,' says Eric Schmitt, who covers terrorism and national security for the Times.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| Other | |