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Bob Miller, er, Judy Woodward?
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| MisterOpus1 |
Birds of a feather, as it seems. Here's Woodward knocking down the Plame issue and continuing to defend this Administration to his very best:
| quote: | WOODWARD: . . .Now there are a couple of things that I think are true. First of all this began not as somebody launching a smear campaign that it actually -- when the story comes out I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter and that somebody learned that Joe Wilson's wife had worked at the CIA and helped him get this job going to Niger to see if there was an Iraq/Niger uranium deal.
And, there's a lot of innocent actions in all of this but what has happened this prosecutor, I mean I used to call Mike Isikoff when he worked at the "Washington Post" the junkyard dog. Well this is a junkyard dog prosecutor and he goes everywhere and asks every question and turns over rocks and rocks under rocks and so forth. |
That was Woodward on Larry King the night before Libby was indicted. He opines further:
| quote: | | They did a damage assessment within the CIA, looking at what this did that Joe Wilson's wife was outed. And turned out it was quite minimal damage. They did not have to pull anyone out undercover abroad. They didn't have to resettle anyone. There was no physical danger of any kind and there was just some embarrassment. |
Interesting comment, one that was also stated by other Republican mouthpieces like Brooks. Except the tiny little headline caption in Woodward's paper kinda makes him look like a ing idiot:
"CIA Yet to Assess Harm From Plame's Exposure"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...5102801988.html
Regardless, it did seem a bit interesting how this reputable reporter parred the Administration BS on the Plame issue. None of which he states above is true, but now we see a bit more involvement with Woodward on this issue from the very, very beginning:
| quote: | Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.
In a more than two-hour deposition, Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive, according to a statement Woodward released yesterday. Fitzgerald interviewed Woodward about the previously undisclosed conversation after the official alerted the prosecutor to it on Nov. 3 -- one week after Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted in the investigation.
...Woodward never mentioned this contact -- which was at the center of a criminal investigation and a high-stakes First Amendment legal battle between the prosecutor and two news organizations -- to his supervisors until last month. . . . Woodward's statement said he testified: "I told Walter Pincus, a reporter at The Post, without naming my source, that I understood Wilson's wife worked at the CIA as a WMD analyst."
Pincus said he does not recall Woodward telling him that. In an interview, Pincus said he cannot imagine he would have forgotten such a conversation around the same time he was writing about Wilson.
"Are you kidding?" Pincus said. "I certainly would have remembered that."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy.../administration |
Great knowing you, Bob. Nice work on Nixon. Perhaps you too got a little too comfy cozy with a select few in this Administration yourself? It seems to look that way. Cozying up next to a cobra will almost always tend to bite you right in the ass. |
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