Breaking on RawStory: Sources identify white house official who spoke to Woodward

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CAGiversary!
No details yet, but should be interesting. If it's Rove, it supposedly messes up Fitzgerald's timeline on what happened. I hope the doopey really hits the fan over this one.

http://www.rawstory.com/

In other developments:

Bob Woodward apologized today to The Washington Post's executive editor for failing to tell him for more than two years that a senior Bush administration official had told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame, even as an investigation of those leaks mushroomed into a national scandal.

Woodward, an assistant managing editor and best-selling author, said he told Leonard Downie Jr. that he held back the information because he was worried about being subpoenaed by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the case.

"I apologized because I should have told him about this much sooner," Woodward said in an interview. "I explained in detail that I was trying to protect my sources. That's Job No. 1 in a case like this. . . .

"I hunkered down. I'm in the habit of keeping secrets. I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed."

Downie, who was informed by Woodward late last month, said in a separate interview that his most famous employee had "made a mistake." Despite Woodward's concerns about his confidential sources, Downie said, "he still should have come forward, which he now admits. We should have had that conversation . . . I'm concerned that people will get a misimpression about Bob's value to the newspaper and our readers because of this one instance in which he should have told us sooner."

The abrupt revelation that Woodward has been sitting on information about the Plame controversy has reignited questions about his unique relationship with The Post while writing books with unparalleled access to high-level officials, and about why Woodward minimized the importance of the Fitzgerald probe in television and radio interviews while hiding his own involvement in the matter.

In past interviews, Woodward has repeatedly minimized the Fitzgerald probe, telling National Public Radio, for example, that when "all of the facts come out in this case, it's going to be laughable because the consequences are not that great." Downie said Woodward had violated the paper's guidelines in some instances by expressing his "personal views."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111601286_pf.html

Goodbye, Woodward. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
 
Let's focus on who the source was, and how legitimate Woodward's claims are.

I personally don't care what WP does with Woodward. I can't see why he withheld this info all this time.
 
Looks like RawStory has scooped the MSM yet again:

National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley was the senior administration official who told Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA officer, attorneys close to the investigation and intelligence officials tell RAW STORY.

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Woodward said he was told that it was “no big deal” that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson was sent to Niger to investigate the veracity of the Bush Administration’s claims that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger. According to the attorneys, he said Hadley dismissed the trip by saying his wife, a covert CIA officer who worked on WMD issues, had recommended him.

At the time, Hadley was working under then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Woodward got access to classified information

In his most recent book, Bush at War, Woodward says he was given access to classified minutes of National Security Council meetings. Both Rice and Hadley were major players in these meetings.

President Bush sat for lengthy interviews for his book, often speaking about classified information, Woodward later said. The Post editor added that he was surprised by Bush’s frankness.

"Certainly Richard Nixon would not have allowed reporters to question him like that,” he said. “Bush's father wouldn't allow it. Clinton wouldn't allow it.”


Hadley was the one who put the Niger claim in the infamous State of the Union speech. And now, the conspiracy grows.
 
Last week, PAD was steaming that someone leaked classified information about the "secret jails" to reporters, even when it turned out to originate from republicans (whatever happened to Frist and Hastert's demands for an investigation? You don't hear from them anymore about this.)

So now, is it time for an investigation into Dubya's loose lips?
 
Does it still take five people to make it a conspiracy? Rove, Scooter, Hadley, Cheney, ??????
 
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