Posted on 11/21/2005 5:02:49 PM PST by lainie
Airs: 9-10 p.m. ET Nightly
Monday's show
Exclusive: Bob Woodward on the CIA leak case.
What he knew, when he knew it and why he stayed
silent for almost two years.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Maybe Woodward is actually agreeing with us. Take it as a gift.
"the DUmpster is also watching the interview....and fuming:"
They can't take any deviation from their script. Must be very unhappy people.
woodward tells king fitz asked him if he (woodward) could have told libby that plame was cia?
HE SAID YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BINGO! Ah, I'm going to sleep well tonight.
is there a transcript of this interview?
Have you ever seen Larry King and Montgomery Burns in the same room? I think they are one in the same!
I said earlier, it might be a little bit of Middle-Mambo.. Dick Morris syndrome. Playing both sides against each other will only work with certain types of people. You'll get press short term, but eventually, no one will trust you.
Yes, thank you for bringing it up -- I had forgotten to go back and look. It's up: link to transcripts.cnn.com for 11/21.
<< Well he'll be spinning like a very slow, arrogant, and irritating top.
Thanks for clarifying that. He will also sound like a moron. >>
Yep.
That's because that's how he and every other moron sounds.
Larry King? Wasn't he the star witness in the Michael Jackson trial? LOL.
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KING: OK. Your source, did the source indicate whether Mrs. Plame was an undercover agent or a desk analyst?
WOODWARD: Good question. And specifically said that -- the source did -- that she was a WMD, weapons of mass destruction, analyst. Now, I've been covering the CIA for over three decades, and analysts, except -- in fact, I don't even know of a case. Maybe there are cases. But they're not undercover. They are people who take other information and analyze it.
And so -- and if you were there at this moment in mid-June when this was said, there was no suggestion that it was sensitive, that it was secret.
KING: How did it even come up?
WOODWARD: Came up because I asked about Joe Wilson, because a few days before, my colleague at the "Washington Post," Walter Pincus, had a front-page story, saying there was an unnamed envoy -- there was no name given -- who had gone to Niger the year before to investigate for the CIA if there was some Niger-Iraq uranium deal or yellow cake deal.
I learned that that ambassador's name was Joe Wilson, which was, you know, Wilson eventually surfaced...
KING: I see.
WOODWARD: ... I guess a few weeks later. So I said to this source, long substantive interview about the road to war. You know, at the end of an interview like this, after you're doing an interview on television, you might just shoot the breeze for a little while. And so, I asked about Wilson, and he said this.
KING: I see.
WOODWARD: Most kind of off-hand.
KING: All right.
WOODWARD: One of those things. And so I -- I didn't think much of it.
KING: What did Libby say when you were with him? Was that a more complete discussion?
WOODWARD: No. Now this is what's interesting. And I had two -- one phone conversation and one long interview with Libby during this period. I had questioned lists that had hundreds of questions, one of them Joe Wilson's wife. I had no recollection at all that I asked about Joe Wilson's wife. I'm taking extensive notes. Libby said nothing about Joe Wilson's wife or about this in any way at that time.
So if he was involved in something like this, at least he decided -- when I say this, somehow outing her -- he decided not to converse with me about it. But because it's on a question list, and this is why Fitzgerald was turning over every rock.
He said, "Well, is it possible you asked -- in other words, that you conveyed to Libby that you knew Joe Wilson's wife worked in the CIA? Because it's on a question list."
And my sworn testimony is that it's possible. I certainly don't recall it, and he certainly said nothing. But after long interviews and you have long lists of questions, you can't really say, "Gee, did I ask that or that." At least, two years later, I can't. Maybe the next day I might have been able to.
KING: There's been some criticism as to why you agreed to submit written questions to Vice President Cheney, which is normally not your bag. Why?
WOODWARD: Yes, I don't -- somebody has questioned that. In my book, "Plan of Attack," I outline how I sent a 21-page memo to President Bush with the chronology and some of the questions I wanted to ask, in no sense limiting the questions. And I've done that with Cheney, and I've done that with other people.
It is an aid and a way to say, "This is the period of time I want to cover, some of the issues, some of the, quite frankly, things I've learned that you may not be comfortable with or some of the secrets in all of this," and then let the person respond. But no one has ever said, OK, that's not on the list, you can't ask that question. So...
KING: ... did you meet with Cheney?
WOODWARD: Not in this period.
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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/21/lkl.01.html
Libby's defense lawyers are no doubt perusing this transcript.
"I definitely think it'll be worth watching, at least for a bit. I hope one or the other says something monumentally stupid."
Yes, I thought so too. However, I just kind of got nauseated at the beginning when Woodward began to look like he was kissing his audience, so I changed the channel immediately.
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