Woodward, Man of Principle, Willing to serve part of J Millers Time

Make me puke! Interesting interview.

July 11, 2005 Woodward interview on Larry King:

WOODWARD: ... because it came to mind. If the judge would permit it, I would go serve some of her jail time, because I think the principle is that important, and it should be underscored. It's not a casual idea that we have confidential sources. It is absolutely vital. And I'll bet there are all kinds of reporters out there, if we could divvy up this four-month jail sentence -- I suspect the judge would not permit that, but if he would, I'll be first in line. It's that important to our business.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/11/lkl.01.html

Your 15 minutes are up, Bush-toady.

Is he Catholic? Gotta little guilt going on Bobby?

He wanted to do some penance

opportunist and now youve hitched up to your shining stars bush and cheney.

help but try and hog the limelight and, as a consequence, he is looking like an even bigger slime ball shill then he might have had he not been out front and 'opining' on the Fitzgerald investigation and poor, 'innocent' Judy.

WOODWARD: Well, if it was connected with the illegal part of it. I mean, just talking about her and Joe Wilson, not having the knowledge that -- I think not too many people had the knowledge that she was an undercover operative or had once been one. At the time, she was -- you know, she -- her identity was protected, but she was working in headquarters, as an analyst. So, there's no -- in this case, there's no harm to national security. And her life certainly was not in danger, as best I can tell.

Because if it is, it's a good 'un. Kudos!

Poppy. H20 man just informed me in another post that Woodward was likely Naval intelligence. Stumbled on to this transcript.

Paid off? On the take, Bob?

I spit on you Woodward...I always liked Bernstein better anyway...!

He "suspects the judge would not permit that". I'll bet he does. This is just another form of the well known phenomenom of chicken hawkism - which I am sure Woody is familiar with, having spent so much time flogging the various stories of the * administration.

"KING: Before Bob answers, sir, who does Felt report to?

WOODWARD: He reported to Pat Gray, who was the director who Nixon installed to politicize the FBI, to give Nixon control. It wasn't a matter of arresting people. They were investigating all kinds of people.

I mean, to just answer the caller's question, you have the FBI director summoned to the White House -- this is Pat Gray, Felt's boss -- he is given the contents of Howard Hunt, who is the chief suspect, and went to jail because of the Watergate burglary -- given the contents of Hunt's White House safe and told by the counsel to the president of the United States and John Ehrlichman, Nixon's -- one of his three top aides, make sure this evidence never sees the light of day.

The FBI investigative records were being sent to the White House. There were so many parts of this, where there was a cover-up going on. Mark Felt really couldn't go to anyone who had any authority who wasn't involved in concealing this. "



Is this Woodward making excuses for not coming forward with his complicit involvement?