Washington Post rebukes Bob Woodward

Reuters via CNN ^ | November 20, 2005

[mewzilla]

said the newspaper took a "hit to its credibility"

Snort.

What credibility?

[chilepepper]

Woodward is a hero IMHO. He has singlehandedly derailed the MSM-Hitlery Express that Clinton's CIA allies had so carefully crafted with the Plame-Wilson affair in their strategy to sieze the Whitehouse in 2008.

[polymuser]

Saturday morning on NPR, around 9:10 am EST, NPR commentator Daniel Shore was asked by another NPR commentator if he thought Woodward did anything wrong. As I heard it, Mr. Shore answered "I don't like talking about what's right and wrong, especially about my colleagues."

[kindred]

[One of the best-known investigative reporters in the United States, Woodward revealed last week that he testified under oath to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that a senior Bush administration official told him in mid-June 2003 about CIA operative Valerie Plame's position at the agency.

Woodward revealed last week that he testified under oath to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that a senior]


So Fitzy boy definitely knew that vals position was already comprimised well before 2003. Oh fitzy boy. Who do you really work for?

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

You're gonna love this...

[calrighty]

I see you "get" it !

[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

"One of the best-known investigative reporters in the United States, Woodward revealed last week that he testified under oath to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that a senior Bush administration official told him in mid-June 2003 about CIA operative Valerie Plame's position at the agency."

Maybe I do not get it, how is this not bad for the Administration? Doesn't Woodwards testimony reinforce what Fitzmorris is already after? A high level Administration official 'outing' a CIA official.

The June 2003 time line fits within a month of the Novak story and the calls between Cooper / Miller and Libby.

I would feel much better if Woodward had testified that a former Clinton official or Kerry campaign flunky had told him this earlier than the June 2003 time frame.

[DrC]

The person who told him was Richard Armitage, who along with Colin Powell was considered a moderate within the administration and not part of Dick Cheney's neo-con "cabal." This indicates that the leak was just water-cooler gossip, not part of a vast neo-con conspiracy to out Valerie Plame. Of equal importance, it demonstrates how very far from a thorough or fair-and-balanced investigation Fitzgerald conducted since his narrow focus appears to have been on Dick Cheney's office rather than considering that many in the media and in the Washington social elite actually already knew full well who Valerie Plame was.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

How about termination?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They'd have to change their name. He's the franchise.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

We'll see what the stockholders have to say about it.

[nopardons]

That's about it; yes.

[nopardons]

Wrote a pretty fair book about President Bush.