Bob Woodward Plames Himself!

Meet the new Judith Miller...

Bob Woodward.

Yep, both The New York Times and The Washington Post missed out on the biggest scoop since Watergate because their star reporters were both involved in the story... Up to their high-priced bylines!

But Miller & Woodward never wrote about Valerie Plame under those bylines. At least, not until they were both implicated. I'm sure "administration officials" wanted them to, though. That was more than likely the BushCo WHIG (White House Iraq Group) plan all along: leak crap to a bunch of reporters who wouldn't dream of divulging their White House sources.

Miller and Woodward were smart enough not to write the original stories under their own bylines, though, which tells me that MILLER & WOODWARD BOTH KNEW that "administration officials" were trying to play them.

I'm sure this happens all of the time, aren't you?

Can you think of any other reason why Woodward & Miller wouldn't write (even after Bob Novak took the bait) the biggest story of the Bush administration's march to war?

Anyway, keep in mind that Bob Woodward is a Republican...

Or at least he claimed to be in "All The President's Men." (Rent the movie and fast forward to the scenes with Hugh Sloan.)

Woodward Was Told of Plame More Than Two Years Ago

By Jim VandeHei and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, November 16, 2005; Page A01

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, according to a statement Woodward released yesterday.

Woodward didn't write the story. And I'm supposed to believe that he handed it to Walter Pincus?

Puh-leeze!

Here's what Woodward actually did:

"When the story comes out, I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter," he told CNN's Larry King.

Woodward also said in interviews this summer and fall that the damage done by Plame's name being revealed in the media was "quite minimal."

"When I think all of the facts come out in this case, it's going to be laughable because the consequences are not that great," he told National Public Radio this summer.

Let's recap:

Woodward knew in June, 2003, that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife yada yada yada.

He claims he told rival reporter, Walter Pincus.

He didn't tell his editors he was involved.

He went on TV and claimed the leak of a covert CIA WMD operative was no biggie.

He kept quiet about his involvement until he was ratted out to the grand jury by one of his 3 sources.

Pass the popcorn!

The plot is thickening!


Hey, Woodward! You don't have Bernstein to hold your hand this time.