http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500795/posts?page=42#42
I had the same questions about National Journal and Murray Waas. the helpful link above is from cyncooper.
Others online said Waas has been around forever, and I found an old Slate article identifying Waas as "an investigative journalist".
Just heard on MSNBC, Judith Miller is before the Grand Jury already this morning.
MSNBC is NBC's echo chamber for Bush bashing. their two breathless bimbos led off the morning news with:
"His aides under fire, his judicial nomination in question, can the President battle back? Chris Matthews will be here ... ".
It sounded more like a soap opera promo than serious news!!
I'm finding a few interesting stuff about him and Sid Blumenthal
http://slate.msn.com/id/1000092/
True Love: An excellent conspiratorial moment at a recent Washington, D.C., party given for Salon magazine. Present were: presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal, newscaster Jim Lehrer, columnist Molly Ivins, journalist Christopher Hitchens, stunt man David Brock, and Murray Waas, the oddball investigative reporter who has been chronicling the machinations of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy for Salon and the New York Observer. At one point, Waas, looking around the room as if to make sure noone was following him, snuck out the rear door into the unlit back yard. A few seconds later, Blumenthal slipped out the same back door to join Waas. They could then be seen having a brief, but intense, tete-a-tete in the darkness. ...