And Another One Bites the Dust: Bob Woodward Covered Up His Role In Plamegate

Oh no! Not another sneaky, conniving, embedded-in-the-Bush Administration reporter!

“Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.

In a more than two-hour deposition, Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive.”

Many in Washington are alleging that the famed Woodward covered up his role in Plamegate, the investigation into whether Administration officials leaked the name of a covert CIA operative in retribution for her husband’s role in discrediting the war in Iraq. Woodward apologized to his employer, the Washington Post, for not coming out sooner. Woodward even asked his colleague, noted columnist Walter Pincus, not to write about Woodward’s role in Plamegate. What’s more, in television interviews, Woodward lambasted the Plame investigation as “laughable” and “disgraceful” without ever divulging his role in the affair.

TheStateOf…the media. The reporters that cover politics in Washington have an inherent conflict of interest. If they are tough on the politicians, they get no access. If they are kind, they get wide access. Many of them also receive compensation for speeches, books, etc that would not occur without the help of politicians. Nobody has had more access to the White House than Bob Woodward, author of “Plan of Attack” and “Bush at War,” two best-selling books detailing President Bush’s march to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. In an effort to sell books, Woodward has clearly committed a major breach of ethics.