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CNN.com - Post editor: Woodward ‘made a mistake’ - Nov 16, 2005

You can bet that the press will fall on Mr. Woodward like vultures. The Post has been pointing fingers at the other journalists on the playground for a while about the
whole Plame-gate thing, and now the others have something on Mr. Goody-two-shoes Woodward.

Or do they? Woodward didn’t tell anybody about the conversation. He didn’t write a story about the CIA out of it. When the grand jury asked, he told them what he knew. That all sounds like what you are supposed to do with confidential sources that may or may not be newsworthy. I think that the Wolf-man has forgotten that having a classified operatives name doesn’t make it a story. The story here is that someone destroyed the career of a CIA agent because her husband said some things that powerful people didn’t like. The story here is that the NYT helped them do it.

Bob Woodward didn’t. You go Bob.