wonkette.com 11/16/05

The Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Bob Woodward

Bloggers are beside themselves over Bob Woodward's revelation that he was told by a 
"senior administration official" who Valerie Plame was nearly a month before Bob Novak 
first identified her in his column. There are many theories as to why Woodward would 
come forth with this information at this time. Kevin Drum theorizes that the blockbuster 
article comes only because the SAO tipped his hand to Patrick Fitzgerald: "Perhaps Mr. X 
is a cooperating witness, or perhaps he's someone who started to feel some heat and 
decided to come forward because he got scared.. We have another theory: Bob Woodward 
had not been on television in the last week or so.

On a related note: "Are you kidding?" is the new "double super-secret background"

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."


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