From Pulitzer-Prize winning author (from his series of articles in the Boston Globe regarding Bush and signing statements), Charlie Savage - Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy Read more…

Froom Savages his coworkers on the dead-tree side of the WaPo conglomeration today. The occasion is the awarding of the Pulizer Prize for National Reporting to Charlie Savage of the Boston Globe. Which Globe? The Boston Globe. Not, um, the Washington Globe, er we mean Post, which might seem logically more in a position to have picked up on the subject of Savage's reporting: Presidential signing statements.

Charlie Savage of the Boston Globe won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting yesterday, "for his revelations that President Bush often used 'signing statements' to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws."

The stories that won Savage his prize are certainly familiar to White House Watch readers -- and yet worth rereading.

And here's a question White House correspondents should be asking themselves today: How did an investigative reporter at a regional newspaper end up winning an award on their beat?

According to Globe Editor Martin Baron, the answer is: "What Charlie does and the reason he won this richly deserved Pulitzer is because he covered what the White House does, not just what it says."

Another thing to keep in mind: For entirely too long, Savage was a one-man band on this important national story. Read more…