"the utter uselessness of Bob Woodward"

[donsu]

http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2005/11/youve-come-long-way-baby.html

You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Sidney Schanberg on the utter uselessness of Bob Woodward, here talking about Traitorgate with Larry King:
"Technically they might be able to be charged with perjury. But I don't see an underlying crime here, and the absence of the underlying crime may cause somebody who is a really thoughtful prosecutor to say, you know maybe this is not one to go to the court with."

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I wonder what Woodward's newsroom colleagues at The Washington Post think of his put-down of this investigation, especially the reporters—Dana Priest, Walter Pincus, Barton Gellman, Jim VandeHei, and others—who have been doing such an impressive job of digging deep and informing the public about the White House machinations and the larger Iraq story. I doubt they're throwing him any parties.

To write his books, Woodward needs special access to major people in the White House and the key cabinet departments. He is presently working on what he says may be a multivolume treatment of Bush's second term. He had access to the president himself for his book on the first term. But with this scandal still unfolding, lots of government biggies have suddenly zipped their lips. This has complicated Woodward's work. Perhaps that explains, in part, his reluctance to mouth any full-blown criticism of Bush administration missteps.

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Woodward isn't just reluctant to criticize the Administration -- he's become the water carrier of choice. Schanberg doesn't report the big, fat whopping lie that Woodward went on to tell in that interview, that he had seen the CIA damage report done on the Plame leak:
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oh, puke on Woodward. termites have eaten away at his brain and money has leaped into his pockets.

face it. Woody is a member of the criminal bushgang.

another article on the termite:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511160013
Wash. Post's Woodward's misleading, disingenuous statements on Plame investigation

[skypilot]

1. Damage report???

Am I correct in believing that, so far, there's been NO damage report done?

[AzDar]

2. "Multi-volume treatment of Bush's second term"..?? I can save him

the time and effort and sum it up in ONE WORD: Impeachment.
Dear Gawd, is this REALLY the same intrepid young hero who broke "Watergate"? I've always suspected the Bush Cabal truly taints anything stupid enough to be sucked into it's poisonous orbit.This is proof....sickening.

[leftofthedial]

3. Illinois Repuke, Yale grad

he's always been a neocon

Watergate wasn't about corruption or right and wrong or ridding the country of a monomaniacal criminal. It was a neocon "palace coup" that destroyed the "old" repuke leadership, creating a power vacuum that allowed the neocons to take over the party. Woodward was their operative then. He is their operative now.