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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"deconclusified"
Dadgum good word.
As I understand it, Woodward's source approached the SP after the indictment and press conference to tell him that Libby wasn't the first to tell a reporter 'cuz the source told Woodward earlier than Fitz stated in the indictment and presser. Fitz then contacted Woodward who had to come clean. No hero he, rather he's an asshat for sitting on it until forced out. As to Fitz, I would imagine he's p*ssed at being gamed by the presstitutes and I don't think a new GJ is necessarily a bad thing--*fingers crossed*.....
Woodward has been dismissive of this whole Memogate investigation, and of Fitzgerald too. Isn't it funny now, how Woodward is so full of compliments for Fitzgerald?
(If you guys are'n't watching C=Span, flip over now. Big fight going on. "Words taken down" = serious breach by some congress critter. Don't you just hate it when that happens?
Well, I read on NRO that Walter Pincus could possibly be trouble over his testimony regarding the Plame affair and what he knew, when he knew it and who first told him about it. That should explain why this wasn't in the post.
Supposedly not... Haven't seen anything definitive, but a google search reveals purported email communications from her in which she categorically denies being related, and that if she had been, she would not have been reporting on this story.
Because the CIA was actually aware they had a rogue operation inside the Company. And now is the time to sping the trap.?????
You are correct -- Woodward spoke at the OU Gaylord School of Journalism and he told the students to never write a story when you are part of a story. He said you can work with the author but you are to never become the story you write.
My daughter was impressed with his candiness and his telling the journalism students that ethics count the most. He talked about his access at the White House for the book he wrote and how he appreciated everyone he came in contact with there.
Maybe Fitzgerald didn't know that Woodward is a reporter. Afterall, he's only one of the TWO most famous reporters in the freaking world!
I would say that a) the source probably felt the heat from Scooter's defense team investigation or b) had enough honor to risk the heat him/herself knowing their testimony was vital to Scooter's defense giving c) Woodward had to tell the story lest the source tell a different reporter that Woodward knew. IMHO, Woodward had no choice but to tell the story while he still had a semblance of control and this was no noble act. It also raises the question of how many OTHER reporters are sitting on case-changing information.
...According to Woodward, that triggered a call to his source. "I said it was clear to me that the source had told me [about Wilson's wife] in mid-June," says Woodward, "and this person could check his or her records and see that it was mid-June. My source said he or she had no alternative but to go to the prosecutor.
...Woodward said he had tried twice before, once in 2004 and once earlier this year, to persuade the source to remove the confidentiality restriction, but with no success.
If you can't dazzle them with brains,...
Baffle them with (Horse Hockey) ....
The other day I stumbled into the DU grave site. One dummy poster was calling Woodward a conservative, as well as a traitor. Go figure..
"Go figure.." The only thing I can figure is that the DU is so used to slander and libel that they sometimes verbally shoot themselves in the foot! Anyway, if I spent time trying to figure them out I'd end up nuts myself!
You know, that is a good point. There's also the saying, "It's amazing how much you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit."
Being a conservative journalist would have really put me out of the mainstream right now, doncha know.
Thanks for the info.
"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.'"
That truly is a frightening statement. Woodward's testimony makes Fitzgerald look like a fool because Fitz missed this info earlier because throughout this process he did not probe deep into Reporter's roles in this story. It sounds like Fitz has not learned from his past mistakes.
"I would imagine he's p*ssed at being gamed by the presstitutes and I don't think a new GJ is necessarily a bad thing--*fingers crossed*....."
Except that since all would agree it was not a crime to "out" this person, it would be hard to trap someone else. This source must realize that.
By next week, according to leftists, Woodward will always have been part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
True. It was kinda my point. Fitz concluded Libby lied 'cuz no reporters knew beforehand (or so they testified). My hope is that Fitz rethinks the truthfulness of the reporters who said they did not know beforehand and/or did not tell Libby...
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