Scott Armstrong is the current director of Information Trust, a former journalist for ''
The Washington Post'', and founder of the
National Security Archive
The National Security Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental, non-profit research and archival institution located on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy. The Nat ...
. He was a staff member of the
Senate Watergate Committee
The Senate Watergate Committee, known officially as the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, was a special committee established by the United States Senate, , in 1973, to investigate the Watergate scandal, with the power to inv ...
.
With
Bob Woodward, he co-authored the 1979 book ''
The Brethren
Brother, Brethren, also called "brothers", are male siblings.
(The) Brethren may refer to: Groups and organizations
*Brethren (religious group), any of a number of religious groups
*Brethren (Australian group), an Australian hip hop group
*Brethre ...
'', an inside account of the
United States Supreme Court.
Before that he was research assistant with Woodward on the latter's co-authored 1976 endeavor ''
The Final Days
''The Final Days'' is a 1976 non-fiction book written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about the Watergate scandal. A follow up to their 1974 book ''All the President's Men'', ''The Final Days'' concerns itself with the final months of the Pre ...
''.
Works
* Scott Armstrong and Bob Woodward, ''The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court'', (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979).
* Scott Armstrong, Malcolm Byrne, and Tom Blanton, ''The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras'', (New York: Warner Books, 1987).
* Scott Armstrong and Paul Grier, ''Strategic Defense Initiative: Splendid Defense or Pipe Dream?'', (New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1986).
References
External links
Information Trust*
Testimony by Scott Armstrong Director, Information Trust to the United States House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment; March 22, 2007
Living people
American investigative journalists
American newspaper reporters and correspondents
American political writers
American male non-fiction writers
Journalists from Washington, D.C.
The Washington Post people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Watergate scandal investigators
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