Posted on 11/18/2005 1:58:52 PM PST by YaYa123
As reporters keep scrambling to find out who told Bob Woodward about Joe Wilson’s wife, Woodward himself has told TIME about a related mystery: what made the source finally come forward. When the Washington Post reporter went public with his involvement in the CIA leak case earlier this week, he failed to explain why his source waited silently for two years before coming clean to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. In an interview today, Woodward described the sequence of conversations with his source and Post executive editor Leonard Downie, Jr. that led to the latest twist in Fitzgerald’s investigation into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame, the wife of administration critic Wilson.
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Woodward comes out and claims that HIS source just recently came clean? Is that what this is saying? If so, I guess Fitzgerald already knows Woodward's source then?
Correct, and correct.
If someone else "esplains" what happened, if the facts come out and don't correlate with the story your mouthpeice told, you can always claim he "misunderestimated" or "deconclusified" what the situation was..
At any rate, Woodward doesn't have to claim he "misrememembered" or anything...
During his time with the prosecutor, Woodward said, he found Fitzgerald "incredibly sensitive to what we do. He didn't infringe on my other reporting, which frankly surprised me. He said 'This is what I need, I don't need any more.'"
Of course he's only asking for what he "needs" he doesn't want his case to blow up anymore than it already has.
Hmmmm, you could be right. But there are other Washington Post reporters who could have written the story. And....remember, Matt Cooper wrote his own story after he testified.
Don't all FReepers love the delightful irony? Woodward has always been lionized by liberals and now he's potentially blown apart Fitzgerald's case with respect to Libby. Last night the Dem shill, Chris Matthews, was so excited and perplexed he probably peed his pants!! I love it! Give us more!
Since there was NO crime committed why is my tax money being spend on this?
COLIN POWELL
I'm a conservative and I've always respected Woodward as a truly great reporter. The only conservatives I know of that hated Woodward were the ones who loved "tricky Dick" Nixon. But that was a different time and place in political life.
I'm wondering who woodward is lying to cover up for....
Is Viveca Novak related to Bob Novak?
You are probably right. I was in college majoring in journalism when Watergate broke--yeah, I'm that old! Anyway, the sea change of kids who entered journalism after Woodward/Bernstein's coup was amazing. It went from people interested in learning and explaining facts to people who wanted to bring down some corrupt administration or in other ways change the world through their journalism. As far as I am concerned, Woodward had a big part in corrupting journalism's vaunted, albeit mythical, impartiality.
I can remember one particular incident, while I was on the college newspaper, because it was so idiotic. I reported on some discrepancies between the various cafeterias on campus: they charged different amounts for the same items. Before I wrote the article, I talked to the head of food services who acknowledged the discrepancies and the next day the prices were correlated across campus. I felt I had accomplished something and I wrote the article, noting the discrepancies and also noting that the administrator immediately changed the prices after our conversation. This was after the Waterate fallout so I really caught some flak from younger fellow journalism majors. According to them, I should never have spoken to the administrator before I published. I should have published the discrepancies with a demand that they be changed so I could get credit for the change. I felt I had accomplished the same thing without risking the administrator feeling that he had to justify the discrepancies after he was publicly challenged. I guess I wasn't cut out to be a modern journalist.:)
Viveca Novak the TIME reporter who snagged this story, sure tried to put an ominous spin on why Woodward's source waited to come foreward. At least she does portray his source as immediately wanting to get the information to Fitzgerald.
One thing I find puzzling. Everyone is calling this White House official, "Bob Woodward's source". But actually, it was Woodward who first mentioned Wilson's wife to Libby, not the other way around.
I liken this to a case where a couple was married by a minister who turned out to be a fake and could not legally marry them. Can either of them be guilty of adultery if they cheat on the other one? No marriage, no adultery?
"... even though Woodward's name shows up on various White House officials' calendars, phone logs and other records during June and July, 2003, the time frame that is critical to determining whether a crime was committed when information about Plame's employment was shared with reporters.
Does Viveca Novak really still believe that there could have been a crime committed in the "outing" of CIA desk jockey Plame? At this point in time, that's pathetic.
>>> I should have published the discrepancies with a demand that they be changed so I could get credit for the change.
Perfect illustration of a major difference between Libs & Conservatives...Libs want someone else to make changes while they take all the credit...Conservatives work to make change happen without a need to take credit for it.
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