Pete Williams Wiki
Louis Alan Williams famously known as Pete Williams is an American journalist and former government official. He was born on February 28th, 1952 in Casper, Wyoming. He attended Natrona County High School where he graduated in 1970. He then attended Stanford University and graduated in 1974.
Williams Biography
He joined KTWO television and KTWO radio stations and worked from 1974-1985. He also used to serve as the director for the Wyoming Future Project from 1985-1986.
Pete Williams Age
He was born on February 28th, 1952 in Casper, Wyoming.
Pete Williams Family
He is the son to May Louise and Louis Williams.
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Pete Salary
He earns a salary of $ 400, 000 annually.
Williams Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $ 1 million.
Pete Williams Press Secretary
He was hired as press secretary in 1986 and also worked as a legislative assistant in the staff of U.S Representative, Dick Cheney. He was then appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs in 1989. As a result of Dick Cheney’s appointment as the United States Secretary of Defense in 1989, he also worked as the press secretary of the Defense Department.
He was accused falsely while he was serving in the Pentagon of allegedly working to cover up the large-scale irregular military activities that had taken place during the U.S invasion of Panama while pretending to be apprehending Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega. The incidence was later featured in a documentary film, The Panama Deception, in 1992.
Pete Williams NBC
In March 1993, NBC hired Williams as a justice correspondent based in Washington D.C. He was to cover news from the U.S Department of Justice and also, the U.S. Supreme Court. He denied there was any evidence of genocide of war crimes during the Bosnian War.
He claimed that he didn’t see any evidence of a program of systematic or massive killing of innocent people. There was a video clip of the actual statement and it was featured in the 1997 movie, Welcome to Sarajevo.
He interviewed U.S Attorneys General, John Aschcroft, Alberto Gonzalez, and Eric Holder while he was the NBC justice correspondent. He also had a chance to interview FBI Director, Christopher Wray. He was praised by various media analysts for choosing to report events in a restrained, cautionary fashion while he was covering the Boston Marathon bombings back in 2013.
He refused to report a later-retracted claim that the FBI had arrested a suspect for the bombing. This was in contrast with the Associated Press and CNN. The phrase, NBC’s Pete Williams, became a very popular and trending topic in the overnight of April 19th, 2013.
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