32 Facts About Peter Lance

Peter Lance was born on February 18,1948 and is an American journalist and author.

Peter Anthony Lance was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the son of Joseph James Lance, a Navy Chief who had served on the USS Arkansas in World War II.

Peter Lance's mother was Albina Marie Lance, the former deputy clerk for the Superior Court in Newport.

Peter Lance attended public grammar schools and was valedictorian of his class in 1966 at De La Salle Academy, a Catholic Christian Brothers boys high school.

Peter Lance majored in philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston where he was Managing Editor of the student newspaper, The Northeastern News.

Peter Lance began his journalism career as a cub reporter for The Newport Daily News while a student at Northeastern University.

Peter Lance contributed research and writing to the book, authored by Kenneth Lasson.

In 1972, after graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Peter Lance worked as the assistant to the program director at WNET-TV, the PBS flagship station in New York.

Peter Lance soon began producing for The 51st State, a nightly news magazine where he won the first of his two New York Area Emmy awards for The Great American Land Hustle Part One.

In 1973 Lance moved to WABC-TV, where he won a second New York Area Emmy, the National Station Emmy, and the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award for The Willowbrook Case: The People vs The State of New York.

In 1975, while working as a news producer at WABC-TV, Peter Lance attended Fordham University School of Law as a night student.

In 1984 Peter Lance began reporting as a correspondent for ABC News Nightline.

Between 1979 and 1982 Peter Lance received three additional Emmy nominations for his investigative reporting.

In December 1987 Peter Lance left ABC News and began working as a writer and later story editor, producer and show runner in episodic television.

The FBI, Peter Lance says in the report, could have stopped Yousef because they had an informant, Emad Salem, already in place.

Peter Lance was close enough to take a video, shown in the CBS Evening News broadcast, of a celebration that included several members of the original Calverton group and to hear whispers about bomb plot.

Peter Lance told me that there is an unidentified nuclear facility.

Peter Lance's crimes included brokering terror summits, financing an attack on two Black Hawk helicopters, training jihadis in improvised bomb building and the creation of secret cells.

The story was linked to a superseding indictment which now named KSM along Yousef and Abdul Hakim Murad, the pilot trained in four US flights schools whom Peter Lance first reported, based on intelligence from The Philippines National Police, was to be the original pilot in the "planes as missiles plot".

Fitzgerald never made good on his threat to sue, despite a "dare" from Peter Lance published in The Huffington Post a month after the publication of Triple Cross.

In 2010, Peter Lance was contacted by Emad Salem, the ex-Egyptian army officer who had infiltrated the cell around blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspiracy.

Peter Lance worked with Salem and ex-NYPD homicide detective James Moss to solve the homicide case of Mustafa Shalabi, who was killed by al-Qaeda operatives in 1992.

Peter Lance's investigative reporting into the WTC bombing and Shalabi was published in "The Spy Who Came In for the Heat", an article for the August 2010 issue of Playboy, recapping his findings on the television show Morning Joe.

Peter Lance expanded his reporting in First Blood, another investigative piece published in Tablet Magazine.

In that story Peter Lance revealed new evidence of a second gunman in the 1991 assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane.

Peter Lance offered proof that El Sayyid Nosair, the convicted killer of Kahane, intended to murder former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a revelation that made page-one news in The Jerusalem Post.

Devil is a follow-on to Peter Lance's preceding three books, 1000 Years for Revenge, Cover-Up, and Triple Cross.

Peter Lance was subpoenaed by defense attorneys in connection with the 2007 trial.

On January 1,2011, Peter Lance was driving home from a New Year's Eve party.

Peter Lance pleaded innocent, and was exonerated after his criminal case was dismissed on November 15,2011.

Peter Lance's reportage was controversial because, among other things, Lance was being charged with DUI during the same period of time that he was investigating the police department and reporting his findings.

On December 6,2011, Peter Lance filed a 21-page formal complaint against Police Chief Cam Sanchez of the Santa Barbara Police Department, asking for a full investigation of his allegations.