Murray Waas is an insdependent journalist based in Washington DC, United States of America, who specializes in investigative reporting. He areas of expertise are national security affairs, foreign policy, and rule of law and social justice issues.

Waas' reporting about the Trump and Biden administrations has appeared in the  Guardian, the  New York Times, The New York Review of Books, New  York Magazine, Foreign Policy, Vox, and the Washington Spectator.  Among other publications he has written for include the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.

He has worked as the Investigations Editor for Vice and as an investigative reporter for Reuters.

He has worked as a senior correspondent for National Journal and also as a contributing editor of National Journal.

Waas has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of national reporting,

He has been a finalist for the Pultizer Prize for his reporting for the Los Angeles Times about the covert policies of the first Bush administration in the Middle East leading up to the first U.S. war with Iraq. The series of artifcles he wrote was based on what was considered at the time to be the single most consequential and massive leak of U.S. classified documents since the publication of the Pentagon Papers.

Waas has also been a winner of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School's Goldsmith Prize,  a winner of the Barlettt & Steele Business Investigative Reporting Prize, and a winner of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers investigative reporting prize.

Waas has lived in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Pa, and New York City.