Author Bios

Carol J. Williams is senior international affairs writer for the Los Angeles Times. A foreign correspondent for 25 years, she has won five Overseas Press Club awards, two Sigma …

Thom Shanker, Eric Schmitt and Michael R. Gordon are reporters for the New York Times News Service.

Robert Scheer is editor of truthdig.com, where this column originally appeared. E-mail Robert Scheer at [email protected].