Dana Priest is a reporter at The Washington Post and the Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland. She contributes to The New Yorker and PBS’ FRONTLINE and is on the board of directors of the Fauquier Times, the Herblock Foundation and Pressuncuffed.org. Priest has won many journalism awards, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for "The Other Walter Reed," the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on CIA secret prisons and counterterrorism operations and a 2019 George Foster Peabody Award for the FRONTLINE documentary, The Facebook Dilemma. She is the author of two best-selling books, “TOP SECRET AMERICA: The Rise of the New Security State” (Little Brown) and "THE MISSION: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America's Military” (WW Norton), which was a Pulitzer finalist.