Eric Schmitt Biography

Eric Schmitt is a senior writer covering terrorism and national security for The New York Times. Since 2007 he has reported on terrorism issues with assignments to Pakistan Afghanistan North Africa Southeast Asia among others. He is the co-author with The Times’s Thom Shanker of Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda published in 2011.
He was first appointed as a Pentagon correspondent for The Times in May 1990. Mr. Schmitt served this position until February 1996 and then again from Sept. 11 2001 until 2006 covering issues of national security. Between 1996 and 2001 he worked as a domestic correspondent covering among other subjects Congress and immigration.
From 1983 until 1984 Mr. Schmitt was the clerk for James Reston then the senior columnist. He joined The Times in 1983 and has had a number of assignments including those in financial and business news commercial aviation and the travel industry and as a Long Island correspondent.
Some of Mr. Schmitt’s special projects at The Times include the HUD investigation in Puerto Rico the spring of 1990 the Persian Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait from January until March 1991 the war in Somalia in December 1992 and the conflict in Haiti in September 1994.

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