[5] According to journalist James Barron, Drew and his collaborators "wrote that SEAL teams had carried out thousands of dangerous raids but 'also spurred recurring concerns about excessive killing and civilian deaths.'"
He shared the award with journalists Nicholas Kulish, Mark Mazzetti, Matthew Rosenberg, Serge F. Kovaleski, Sean D. Naylor and John Ismay.
[7][8] Drew reported from Washington D.C. for ten years, twice winning White House Correspondents' Association awards for national reportage.
[10] His book Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, published by PublicAffairs, and co-authored with Sherry Sontag and with Annette Lawrence Drew, won an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) certificate award in 1998.
Drew has given opinion and information on national security issues on many of the major television news shows and in documentaries for PBS and the Discovery Channel.
[13] While working as an investigative reporter in New York, Drew also served as an adjunct professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a position he held for ten years.