Women In Public Service (audio)

In 2007, Americans were shocked to discover the conditions in outpatient facilities of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Hundreds of wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were living in dilapidated buildings, infested with cockroaches, rodents and black mold. The reporter who brought the scandal to light was The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning national security correspondent Dana Priest. Within weeks of her expose, the Secretary of the Army and the Commander of Walter Reed had been fired, and the Army's Surgeon General had resigned. In her 20 years at the Post, Dana Priest has traveled with Special Forces units in Asia, Africa, and South America, and covered U.S. military actions in Panama, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. She has been attacked from both ends of the political spectrum, by those who believe her reporting undermines national security and by those who fault her for not taking a public position on the stories she covers. Since 2001, she has depicted the transformat