Garrett Graff: Journalist Extraordinaire
Garret Graff was a political writer that tackled a lot of major issues within the internal intelligence department of the U.S. government. He was the man who collected the majority of the field reports in the 2008 War on Terror, he reported on the end of George Bush Jr.’s time in office into the Obama administration, and he even published the first oral history collection of the events leading up to 9/11. However, one of the most significant reports that he filed didn’t come from the oval office. It began with a lost ID card that one of his friends found in a parking lot...
Misplaced Identity
Garrett Graff’s friend discovered the ID of someone that worked in government intelligence in the parking lot of his apartment building when he was leaving for work one morning. He figured that he should give it to Graff because he had written about government intelligence workers before, but this was no normal ID. The identification card that was given to Graff had all of the standard government information on it, except there were step-by-step driving instructions printed on the back of it. Graff had a similar identification card himself, but his (and everyone else’s) was blank on the back…