Apparently the spin about Woodward..."he didn't want to get involved"

[SoCalDem]

News gatherers (and I use the term loosely) should NOT have the "option" of not getting involved, especially when THEY are a PART of the story.

If you witness an accident, and are known to have seen the accident, you do NOT have the right to just be silent and "not get involved". You are asked by the police to just tell what you saw, and 99.999999% people would do just that..

Woodward wanted it both ways.. He wanted to be the cloying "insider"..privy to juicy stuff, and also the hardnosed 'RUH-porder'..No one should be surprised since he made a career being a tightlipped "insider" for decades.

For his bosses to be giving him a "pass" on this is ludicrous. He was a non-stop pooh-pooher of the "Plame thing".. He took every opportunity to downplay the issue.. It was to his and his pals' benefit if the story withered and died on the vine. He tried his best, and it was a conscious effort.

He doesn;t get to "choose" uninvolvement now..He willingly inserted himself into the story, and tried to cover it up by being deceptive.Who would ever believe anything he has to say from now on.

He should be fired.

[dogman]

1. Didn't he lose credibility when he pimped his book last year?

He tried to hint Bush was a wacko and then said that was misunderstood. I felt that he was attempting to draw interest more than report fact.

[Burried News]

2. He was an intelligence officer at one time. He watched an

intelligence officer and her family be destroyed by the President of the United States. He watched an intelligence effort tasked with tracking weapons of mass destruction, disabled. Just who are you loyal to Woodward?
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"The thin ice

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And Daddy loves you too
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And the sky may look blue
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Don't be surprised, when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice "

[Zen Democrat]

3. Woodward may be a player in bringing down two Republican presidents.

Whether intended or not, Woodward has blown this thing sky-high. Apparently, when he heard Fitzgerald say that "Libby is the first known WH official to mention Wilson's wife to a reporter", old Woody got scared, knowing he was "leaked to" before Libby talked to Miller. In calling his source to ask "did you forget about our meeting?" he was, in essence, questioning whether his name was already in play with the Prosecutor. This forced the source to go to Fitzgerald, especially if Woodward told The Source that he had already fessed up to his editor at the WP. The Source probably confessed to telling Novak in his earlier testimony, but conveniently didn't mention Woodward since Woodward's name wasn't "out there".

Whoever The Source is, he/she is in a lot of trouble.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. But Woodward did get publicly involved by his own choice!

He chose to publicly pontificate about both the Plame investigation and Fitzgerald, the lead Plame investigator, and he chose to do so without disclosing the fact that he was personally involved in the affair and stood to gain from his analysis. That ought to make him a journalistic persona non grata, but these are different times and this sort of behavior is rapidly becoming the norm.