posted on November 20, 2005 09:11:40 AM new
15 Questions for Woodward.
1. If you didn't tell your editor, Len Downie, about the CIA leak because you were so afraid of being subpoenaed, why did you supposedly tell Walter Pincus? Did you trust Pincus but not Downie?
2. Why were you afraid of being subpoenaed in 2003? Subpoenas of reporters didn't begin until 2004. And how would telling Downie lead to your being subpoenaed?
3. What are your ground rules for your books? Since Plan of Attack was published, weren't you free to use the material from your source?
4. Why did you come forward to Len Downie in late October to reveal your source? This was supposedly before your source approached Fitzgerald, so what motivated you? Did the source call you or did you have sudden pangs of conscience? Why didn't this occur to you in 2003 or 2004?
5. On October 27, you were on Larry King saying you had no big scoop. Was that true or a lie?
6. Why did you criticize Fitzgerald and his investigation without revealing that you had something to hide from him?
7. You said you got permission in writing from all three of your sources to testify about your conversations with them. Two of these sources, Andrew Card and Scooter Libby, have been identified. Can you release their letters? And did Libby write any poetry to you?
8. Why did you say categorically that there was no harm done by the outing of Valerie Plame? How do you know this when the CIA has yet to issue an after-action report?
9. Can you at least tell us some of the atmospherics of your dealings with Fitzgerald?
10. Did the prosecutor indicate that you might be called back?
11. Are you now writing about the Plame affair, and if you are is it for one of your books or for the Post?
12. You've praised Judith Miller's decision to go to jail and offered to do time for her. Still feel that way?
13. Did you remind your source of the June 2003 conversation and did that prompt him or her to go to Fitzgerald?
14. Had your source testified previously to Fitzgerald or before the grand jury?
15. Is there any chance your source was Bill Casey being channeled from the dead?
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on November 20, 2005 09:43:15 AM new
::I want to know who leaked the CIA prisons.
That is more important than plame getting outed.::
Ron - I posted about this twice but no one seemed to be very interested. They were originally outed, not by a newspaper last month but in April by a German citizen held in the one in Afghanistan on a case of mistaken identity.
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