major garrett major garrett is a congressional correspondent for fox news he has also been a white house correspondent for cnn a senior editor and congressional correspondent for u s news and world report and a congressional reporter for the washington times his book the fifteen biggest lies in politics was described as calmly reasoned by the indianapolis star he is an alumnus of the missouri school of journalism controversy on january garrett reported that james carville and paul begala were preparing to join the clinton campaign in a major shake up of the campaign staff despite strenuous objections from carville and begala garrett stood by his story which later proved to be untrue references