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Hi, My name is Eric Schmitt, and I am a senior writer for The New York Times in Washington D.C. who covers domestic and international terrorism issues. For two decades, I have covered military and national security affairs for the newspaper. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, I've made 10 reporting trips to Iraq and five trips to Afghanistan to cover American military operations there. In the past three years, I have also reported on counterterrorism operations in Mali, Pakistan and Southeast Asia. Previously, I reported on demographic and national immigration issues for The Times and covered Congress for five years. During that time, I was one of newspaper's main reporters assigned to the 2000 congressional elections as well as the House and Senate impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in 1999. I joined the Washington bureau of The Times in May 1990 as one of the paper's two Pentagon correspondents. I covered the military landing with the Marines in Cap Haitien, Haiti, in September 1994; spent three weeks reporting on the military operation in Somalia in December 1992; and lived for three months in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait covering the Persian Gulf war in 1991. I have been a reporter with The Times since 1983, with assignments including financial and business news, commercial aviation and the travel industry, and Long Island regional correspondent. I got my start with The Times workin as the assistant to New York Times senior columnist James Reston in 1983-84. Before joining The Times, I covered education issues for The Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Wash. I earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations at Williams College, and during that time studied at El Instituto Internacional in Madrid for a year. I attended Harvard University's Executive Program on National and International Security in 1991, and earned a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University for the 2006-07 academic year. I've been fortunate enough to share two Pulitzer Prizes. In 1999, I was part of a team of New York Times reporters awarded the Pulitzer for coverage of the transfer of sensitive military technology to China. In 2009, I was a part of a team of New York Times reporters awarded the Pulitzer for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. I am a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. I'm 51 and a native of Minneapolis, but I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. My wife, Felice Berkowitz, and I now live with their two daughters in northern Virginia. I'm a huge San Francisco Giants and Minnesota Twins fan, love to sea kayak, and have run the New York Marathon four times (PB - 3:25). Cheers!
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