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Posted: February 1st, 2016

By Walter Pincus

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders. Pincus won an Emmy in 1981 and was the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy in 2010. He was also a team member for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and the George Polk Award in 1978.

Reporters too often claim to be objective, but in fact none of us are. We are shaped and influenced by our upbringing, our race, gender, and religion or lack of one; our loved ones and friends; and the lives we have lived.

I had a successful, businessman father who, though he grew up in an orphanage and never finished high school, insisted I do well in whatever I did. I went to an Ivy League school, was drafted into the Army at the end of the Korean War, and trained as an interrogator in the Counterintelligence Corps.

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