Eric P. Schmitt

Eric P. Schmitt (born November 2, 1959) is an American journalist who writes for The New York Times. He has shared four Pulitzer Prizes.

He worked reporting on education at the Tri-City Herald of Kennewick, Washington, for a year. On September 12, 2009, Schmitt, quoting officials who did not want to go on the record by name, that Bagram captives would be allowed to request to review and challenge the allegations that lead to their detention.

In 2004 Schmitt reported on women in the military who had reported being raped by their fellow GIs in Iraq. Schmitt was interviewed by National Public Radio about the story.

Schmitt was one of the New York Times journalists who played a key role in reporting the homicide of several Afghan captives in U.S. custody at the Bagram Air Base internment facility in 2003 and 2004.

In 2006 Schmitt and a colleague reported on bribery concerns that involved Major Gloria Davis, an officer in the United States Army who was found dead from a gunshot wound shortly thereafter.

In 2011, he published a book, Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda with Thom Shanker, his colleague at the New York Times. His book provides a more in-depth view of the war on terror and what U.S. intelligence agencies know about al-Qaeda's inner workings in a narrative journalism format.