Justin has a picture of the memo that proves it.

It was already pretty clear from their pictures in Vanity Fair, and what was widely known on the Washington DC cocktail circuit–but Justin presents additional evidence.

Their claims about being ‘outed’ by someone else are totally sunk.

Update: The New York Times’ James Risen and Eric Lichtblau and The Washington Post’s Dana Priest recently were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for their work publicly disclosing the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic surveillance program and the CIA’s alleged use of secret interrogation sites across the globe.

Risen and Lichtblau won the Pulitzer for “national reporting” for their work uncovering the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic surveillance program. Priest won the Pulitzer for “beat reporting” for her series of articles uncovering the CIA’s alleged use of secret interrogation sites around the world.

And guess what organization awards Pulitzers for these amazing feats of journalism?

Why it’s Columbia University!!! The formal announcement of the prizes, made each April, states that the awards are made by the president of Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize board. This formulation is derived from the Pulitzer will, which established Columbia as the seat of the administration of the prizes. Today, in fact, the independent board makes all the decisions relative to the prizes. In his will Pulitzer bestowed an endowment on Columbia of $2,000,000 for the establishment of a School of Journalism, one-fourth of which was to be “applied to prizes or scholarships for the encouragement of public, service, public morals, American literature, and the advancement of education.”

bwahahahaha! What a joke.