E&P: Who Is Leslie Cauley, Who Broke 'USA Today' Bombshell on NSA?

Who Is Leslie Cauley, Who Broke 'USA Today' Bombshell on NSA?
By E&P Staff
Published: May 12, 2006

NEW YORK So who is Leslie Cauley, the reporter who broke the bombshell USA Today story on the National Security Agency’s phone records spying program?

Cauley, 48, who is on the “telecom” beat at USA Today, has been a business journalist for more than twenty years, spending nine years as a staff writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal in New York.

Last year, Simon & Schuster published her book, “The Rise and Fall of AT&T” after she had pursued the story for over a decade at the Journal and at USA Today.

One review noted that she had “earned a reputation for aggressive investigation of the numerous industry shake-ups — none more dramatic than AT&T's headlong plunge as it misguidedly attempted to become a broadband leader….Filled with new and controversial material and peopled by a cast of characters worthy of a Shakespearean drama, this is the first book to chronicle this riveting tale.”...

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