he said, yes nikita stewart. , so "the post" called me and i ended up at the washington post. >> when >> that was in 2004. >> i only know another nikita and his name is khrushchev. where did that name come from? in 1971 orhe died thereabouts. i was born in 1972. my mother liked the name, and here i am. >> back to "the post," when did jeffrey thompson story start for you? when did they say we are going to do a piece? as you know, nobody gets four pages in the newspaper. >> i joined the investigative team in december and i wrote a memo of things i wanted to pursue. at the time, they decided i should pursue a story i was working on -- i wanted to reveal -- i will not reveal it in case i actually finish it. i was focused on this agency for a few months. the other story i wanted to pursue was jeffrey thomas -- thompson. i wanted to pursue the jeffrey thompson story first. i wrote the memo and they said, we think you should pursue this agency first. so i did. but then the jeffrey thompson situation started heating up. we knew some things would be happening. the time to do this jeffrey thomp

. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," "washington post" reporter nikita stewart discusses her recent front-pagerofile of washington, d.c. businessman jeffrey thompson. thompson"of jeffrey -- >> nikita stewart, as a reporter for the washington post, on july piece, wrote a huge frontpage, on a man named jeffrey thompson. why? in the news.n he is a local businessman at the center of a major federal investigation, and no one really knew who he was. so i basically told my editor i want to write the definitive profile of jeffrey thompson. when people want to know about him, i want them to refer back to this article. hopefully icon pushed that -- i accomplished that. >> what we want to know about him? >> right now, he is the center of d.c. politics and some folks

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