Tim Wiener

New York Times reporter Tim Weiner is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, has reported on the CIA for the last 20 years, and is the author of the critically acclaimed books, Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, An American Spy and Blank Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget. Now, in LEGACYOF ASHES: THE HISTORY OF THE CIA, Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA.

Mike Shuster is a diplomatic correspondent and roving foreign correspondent for NPR. He is based in NPR's Los Angeles bureau. When he is not traveling outside the U.S., he covers issues of nuclear non-proliferation and weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the Pacific Rim. In the past two years, he has contributed many reports to NPR's extensive coverage of the Middle East, traveling four times to Israel since September 2000. He has also reported from Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq.