The transcript of Woodward on Larry King

Just in case you would like to read the lying liar's own words and try to find out why you can never trust anything that comes out of Woodward's mouth.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/27/lkl.01.html

Here's just a snippet:

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KING: Come clean.

WOODWARD: I wish I did have a bombshell. I don't even have a firecracker. I'm sorry. In fact, I mean this tells you something about the atmosphere here. I got a call from somebody in the CIA saying he got a call from the best "New York Times" reporter on this saying exactly that I supposedly had a bombshell.

KING: (INAUDIBLE).

WOODWARD: Finally, this went around that I was going to do it tonight or in the paper. Finally, Len Downie, who is the editor of the "Washington Post" called me and said, "I hear you have a bombshell. Would you let me in on it."

KING: So now the rumors are about you.

WOODWARD: And I said I'm sorry to disappoint you but I don't.

KING: What do you think will happen?

WOODWARD: But Michael's point is exactly right. There is deep mystery here. It only grows with time and people are speculating and there are -- there is so little that people really know.

Now there are a couple of things that I think are true. First of all this began not as somebody launching a smear campaign that it actually -- when the story comes out I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter and that somebody learned that Joe Wilson's wife had worked at the CIA and helped him get this job going to Niger to see if there was an Iraq/Niger uranium deal.

And, there's a lot of innocent actions in all of this but what has happened this prosecutor, I mean I used to call Mike Isikoff when he worked at the "Washington Post" the junkyard dog. Well this is a junkyard dog prosecutor and he goes everywhere and asks every question and turns over rocks and rocks under rocks and so forth.

KING: And doesn't leak.

WOODWARD: And it doesn't leak and I think it's quite possible that though probably unlikely that he will say, you know, there was no malice or criminal intent at the start of this. Some people kind of had convenient memories before the grand jury. Technically they might be able to be charged with perjury.

But I don't see an underlying crime here and the absence of the underlying crime may cause somebody who is a really thoughtful prosecutor to say, you know, maybe this is not one to go to the court with.

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KING: Have you changed your mind about Judy Miller?

WOODWARD: About Judy Miller and what? I mean, she...

KING: You defended her strongly on this show?

WOODWARD: Yeah, because I thought she was defending the principle. She's being criticized. Her newspaper's turned against her. I'm for the underdog, so she's really the underdog, and I think we are going to find out. There are so many facts in all of this we don't know that it will go up and down.

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WOODWARD: No, no. And this is not even a firecracker, but it's true. They did a damage assessment within the CIA, looking at what this did that Joe Wilson's wife was outed. And turned out it was quite minimal damage. They did not have to pull anyone out undercover abroad. They didn't have to resettle anyone. There was no physical danger to anyone and there was just some embarrassment.

And anyway, I heard a Senator (I think it was Kennedy) say the damage assessmant hadn't been done yet. Woodward is spouting the Bushco line, and he should lose his job. He is lying.

First, how would he know? Then, if he did know it was again another illegal leak because the information would have been classified.

And he is, to say the least, biased in favor of the Bush crowd. He has become a player, when once he investigated people like this. And he probably doesn't even realize how they use him. He has gotten too close to the story. WaPo needs to cut him loose.

My sister told me last night that she was going to cancel her Sunday subscription and send a note saying that she won't renew until Woodward is fired.

...talking about the Woodward thing. He said it is highly suspicious that while Woodward was trying to downplay this in the media (saying that it wasn't a serious thing) and the whole time he knew he would be involved in some way.

At the very least, he was not able to speak impartially about it as he tried to indicate in his earlier comments to the media.