The reputation of Washington Post reporter and editor Bob Woodward took a hit this week with the revelation that he was told about outed CIA agent Valerie Plame by an unnamed administration official (whom the Post says wasn’t “Scooter” Libby). Woodward learned about Plame before Libby reportedly talked to New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Yet Woodward never told his Post superiors about this conversation. What’s more, he condemned the leak investigation in TV and radio interviews without any disclosure about his own involvement. Many are asking where Woodward’s loyalties lie — to journalism and his newspaper, or to his book projects. And whether Woodward is too close to his sources.
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Based on his comments it seems that Woodward is far too buddy-buddy with the White House. He has parroted their line that outing a CIA agent is no big deal. The fact is, the Bush administration was carrying on a concerted effort to make sure the information got out as revenge against Wilson for daring speak the truth. So, there were apparently several leakers spreading the information around.
We have seen Karl Rove’s handiwork in the past against John McCain in South Carolina (remember the illegitimate child rumers?) We are simply seeing more of the same. This is typical for the Bush administration.
Is obstruction of justice the proper term for Bob’s omission of the facts?
It’s a trick.
Of course not. That would imply that he did something wrong. And we all know that anyone connected with the white house is above reproach.
Senior Democrat Rep. John Murtha is calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/17/murtha.iraq/index.html
Wayward and the Post are buddy-buddy with WHO? Two of the most liberal creatures in the news today and some of you thing they are suddenly Bush buddies?
John Murtha is just another friend of the Enemy.
Another example of MSM run amuck. MSM has no accountability, thus can deceive, spin, and flat out lie w/o checks and balances.
Joe C, delusional and ignorant.
Guess what, Joe C: Woodward is a hack and a Bush shill, and has been for some time. Don’t try to fob him off on those of us on the Left; he’s been playing the inside the Beltway game for decades, and all he cares about is sucking up to power for access. He has NOTHING to do with the good work of the Left.
As for Murtha being the enemy, well, Joe C., you’ve really shown yourself to be just one of those 30% Bush dead-enders, aren’t you?
CF
Murtha is not the enemy.
Bush is the enemy.
Along with that sack full of shit he dragged into the White House with him.
Ed,
Agreed; my point was that by attacking Murtha in defense of Chickenhawk Cheney (and that sack of shit he dragged into the WH with him), Joe C. is slandering a genuinely courageous man who acts from conviction.
And as a result of Woodward’s new revelations, Fitzy has deposed him and commissioned A NEW GRAND JURY.
Ahhh, I loves the smell of Republican flop-sweat in the morning . . .
Give ‘em enough rope and they’ll hang themselves. Is that the high-pitched squeak of a noose tightening that I hear?
If Murtha has his way millions of our allies will die. Just like when the lefties took us our of Nam. But they were just gooks, right ed?
Joe C,
Oh–you mean ‘lefties’ like Nixon and Kissinger?
God forbid any pesky ‘facts’ should come between you and winning an argument. And then Joe C. gets to finish by using a racial slur and attributing it to Ed.
You’re a little bitch, Joe C., letting someone else fight your battles for you.
I keep telling Joe C. that if 58,000 American dead and ten years couldn’t “win” in Vietnam, why doesn’t he go back and show us how to do it?
He never seems to want to take me up on that. Hmmm . . .
But HEY WAIT! The war in Iraq is still pretty hot. Now’s your chance, big boy.
Go make the world safe for democracy man!
Didn’t they teach you losers in terrorist school not to tell lies so big it blows your credibility? Go back to the desert traitors.
WE should go to Iraq? Oh no my friend, now is YOUR opportunity to fight and kill and perhaps die to prove YOUR support for the war.
You support it, you pay for it and you fight it.
Unless you’re just a chickenhawk like the rest of this of this administration. The people who ask others to die for their lies are the traitors–make no mistake about that.
Why is Bush so adamant about sacrificing American soldiers lives and limbs in an un-winnable war?
Why is Bush willing to place American citizens in greater danger for retaliation from Arabs, by subjecting Arabs to an ongoing senseless slaughter, from daily bombing raids?
What was accomplished by leveling Fallugha using phosphorus to burn the flesh from its civilians?
Could a few dozen determined men take-out our oil refineries, thus paralyzing our economy?
Could major bridges in the United States by destroyed by a few dozen determined men, thus paralyzing our economy??
Could our financial institutions be destroyed by a few dozen determined men, thus paralyzing our economy?
Could our power plants be destroyed by a few dozen determined men, thus paralyzing our economy?
Why is this war really so important?
What is the real reason driving Bush?
In Joe C’s puny Wingnut brain, facts are lies and lies are facts. So he stands there, impotent and humiliated, and calls people names.
Not your best performance, you fascist pansy.