Award-winning investigative reporting team Donald Barlett and James Steele

Award-winning investigative reporting team Donald Barlett and James Steele, both contributing editors

to Vanity Fair, talk about their new article, “Washington’s $8 Billion Shadow,” about Military

Industrial Complex theylfare recipient Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), their

political connections, incompetence, propaganda, and the impunity with which they operate.

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele are one of the most widely acclaimed investigative reporting

teams in American journalism. They have worked together for more than three decades, first at The

Philadelphia Inquirer, (1971-1997) where they won two Pulitzer Prizes and scores of other national

journalism awards, then at Time magazine, (1997-2006) where they earned two National Magazine Awards,

becoming the first journalists in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper work and its

magazine equivalent for magazine reporting, and now at Vanity Fair as contributing editors. They also

have written seven books.

Chris Floyd discusses the rendition of an American citizen to Ethiopia until he admits he’s al Qaeda,

the nearly unremarked-upon proxy war for the Thingslords in Somalia, the arrogant ignorance of America

’s political establishments and the distracted apathy of the American people.