No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan

About Kevin MaurerMitch Weiss

Mitch Weiss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for the Associated Press. In 2003 he was assigned to an investigative series that uncovered the longest string of atrocities carried out by a U.S. fighting unit in the Vietnam War. In recognition of the series Buried Secrets Brutal Truths which led to an investigation by the Pentagon he was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Weiss currently works for the AP on investigative projects and an investigative series he wrote about corrupt real estate appraisers won several national awards in 2009. He also was part of a team of AP reporters that won a George Polk Award in 2010 for their coverage of the British Petroleum oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Kevin Maurer has covered special operations forces for eight years. He has been embedded with the U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan six times in the last five years and spent ten weeks with a team of Green Berets in Afghanistan in 2010. He has embedded with American soldiers in Iraq east Africa and Haiti.