BOB WOODWARD: White House warned me I'd regret what I'm doing

[KarlMarx]

Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN (http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/cnn) that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester (http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-woodward-obama-sequester-republicans-2013-2). CNN host Wolf Blitzer (http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/wolf-blitzer) said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.
"It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, 'You're going to regret doing something that you believe in,'" Woodward said.


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Does anyone else see the irony in this? This is the same Bob Woodward that blew the lid off of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s... but then it was Richard Nixon who was the President....

My my my... how times have changed.... Perhaps Der Fuhrer Obama can have Bob Woodward over to Gestapo Headquarters for a chat

[mundame]

Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN (http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/cnn) that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester (http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-woodward-obama-sequester-republicans-2013-2). CNN host Wolf Blitzer (http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/wolf-blitzer) said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.
"It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, 'You're going to regret doing something that you believe in,'" Woodward said.



Wow. Good for Woodward: blow the whistle on that kind of threat, and do it fast!

I tell you, Woodward is one of our national treasures. He's totally non-partisan; he just says what needs saying. And of COURSE he should slam the sequester: that's just bad acting by this administration. Threats, lies, bad stuff going on.

Sometimes I think, there are still some good guys left.

[KarlMarx]

Wow. Good for Woodward: blow the whistle on that kind of threat, and do it fast!

I tell you, Woodward is one of our national treasures. He's totally non-partisan; he just says what needs saying. And of COURSE he should slam the sequester: that's just bad acting by this administration. Threats, lies, bad stuff going on.

Sometimes I think, there are still some good guys left.

The next parallel between Barack Obama and Nixon ... impeachment.

And it will be well deserved

[taft2012]

Great story, the right should run with it as much as possible.

I'm just not sure I believe it though. I have trouble believing anything Woodward has to say since his deathbed "interviews" with CIA Director William Casey. It was just a bunch of manufactured fiction.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75738.html



Woodward claimed in his book “Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987” that Casey admitted on his deathbed that he had known about the diversion of Iran arms sale money to the Contras.


But Casey’s daughter, Bernadette Casey Smith, claimed that Woodward “never got the deathbed confession,” according to the Houston Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1987_492594/casey-deathbed-confession-impossible-weinberger-sa.html). In addition, Kevin Shipp, a member of Casey’s security detail, asserted in a self-published memoir (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/woodward_dismisses_cia_guards.html) that none of the agents standing guard over the Casey allowed Woodward into his hospital room at Georgetown University Hospital, and that in any case the former CIA director was not able to talk at the time Woodward cited.


In his defense, Woodward quotes (http://bobwoodward.com/books/veil) William Donnelly, head of CIA administration, who said “Woodward probably found a way to sneak in,” and argues (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/woodward_dismisses_cia_guards.html) that the guards weren’t there 24/7 at the time.

Yeah, right. Woodward was the only person able to "sneak" into Casey's hospital room, coincidentally at the precise moments Casey was alert and strong enough to speak... :bs1:

Forget about reporting news, Woodward should be in a home for the mentally ill at this point.

But first... I'm going to enjoy this story about Obama threatening him. :laugh:

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN (http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/cnn) that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester (http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-woodward-obama-sequester-republicans-2013-2). CNN host Wolf Blitzer (http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/wolf-blitzer) said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.
"It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, 'You're going to regret doing something that you believe in,'" Woodward said.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-w...#ixzz2MACd8cYn (http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-woodward-obama-sequester-white-house-reporting-price-politics-2013-2#ixzz2MACd8cYn)

Does anyone else see the irony in this? This is the same Bob Woodward that blew the lid off of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s... but then it was Richard Nixon who was the President....

My my my... how times have changed.... Perhaps Der Fuhrer Obama can have Bob Woodward over to Gestapo Headquarters for a chat


I have no problem believing that obama had the man threatened. There is nothing corrupt that the slimeball will not do. Woodward likely thought revealing the threat to the world would make it harder from obama to have him made to accidentally meet his demise.

[KarlMarx]

Great story, the right should run with it as much as possible.

I'm just not sure I believe it though. I have trouble believing anything Woodward has to say since his deathbed "interviews" with CIA Director William Casey. It was just a bunch of manufactured fiction.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75738.html



Yeah, right. Woodward was the only person able to "sneak" into Casey's hospital room, coincidentally at the precise moments Casey was alert and strong enough to speak... :bs1:

Forget about reporting news, Woodward should be in a home for the mentally ill at this point.

But first... I'm going to enjoy this story about Obama threatening him. :laugh:

Except now... Lanny Davis also claims he was threatened....

http://www.wmal.com/common/page.php?pt=WMAL+EXCLUSIVE%3A+Woodward%27s+Not+Alo ne+-+Fmr.+Clinton+Aide+Davis+Says+He+Received+White+Ho use+Threat&id=8924&is_corp=0


and the rest of the mainstream media is rushing to discredit Woodward... seems like a pattern of collusion and coverup... much like the Catholic priest scandal...

[aboutime]

I wonder if Woodward has a Death Wish?

Can't help but be reminded of the Clinton years, and VINCE (I just accidentally died) Foster.

Woodward may be famous. But life is FLEETING...since
"It's not nice to fool with Mother Obama".

[Robert A Whit]

Watched CBS local and national

No mention of Woodward

Now the Pope, that's different

Cops shot in Santa Cruz. maybe 10 straight minutes

Weather, yessir

Woodward? Who is he again?

When Bush was in office, and Woodward said shitty things, they blasted it all over TV