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NEWS ABOUT: Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward stories: 16 news summaries
ANALYSIS

Leakers Have Agendas—That Journos Hide

From gossip to war,
the press is too kind
to its sources

Sep 28, 09 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the past few days the New York Times and Washington Post broke three major stories with the help of leaks: John Edwards' readiness to declare paternity, Stanley McChrystal's blunt assessment of the Afghanistan war, and Barack Obama's intervention in the New York governor's race. For Post media columnist... More »

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John Edwards • New York Times • Washington Post • Bob Woodward • American media • press leaks • David Paterson • Stanley McChrystal • Howard Kurtz

Post Held Off Afghan Story at DoD Request

Pentagon got one-day delay, and redacted McChrystal report

Sep 23, 09 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Bob Woodward obtained Gen. Stanley McChrystal's classified report on Afghanistan, the Obama administration asked for and got a one-day delay in publication from the Washington Post, the paper reports. Woodward and the Post’s editor met with Pentagon officials Sunday and agreed to remove some sensitive information... More »

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Washington Post • Bob Woodward • Department of Defense • Pentagon Papers • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Stanley McChrystal • redaction

ANALYSIS

 Who Leaked 
 to Woodward? 
 Good Luck 

McChrystal report could help the Pentagon, or the White House, or...

Sep 22, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The question du jour in Washington is who leaked Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s report advocating an increased troop presence in Afghanistan to Bob Woodward, Ben Smith writes on Politico. But the outcome of this tried and true “capital parlor game” is far from certain. Some Beltway insiders think... More »

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Pentagon • Washington DC • Washington Post • White House • Bob Woodward • press leaks • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • President Obama • Stanley McChrystal

(Newser) - It's almost a political rite of passage at this point: Bob Woodward is writing a book about the Obama administration, reports Gabriel Sherman in the New Republic. No word on the focus, but Sherman notes that Woodward has a knack for making administrations nervous. “Every White House... More »

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White House • Bob Woodward • Election 2008 • reporting • Obama administration • President Obama • investigative journalism

 Times Nearly Scooped 
 Post on Watergate 

37 years later, reporter reveals FBI chief Gray tipped him off

May 25, 09 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Watergate scandal made the careers of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the story. But the Post nearly got scooped by the New York Times, according to ... the New York Times. Nearly 37 years after the fact, a reporter briefly at the Times says he... More »

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New York Times • Watergate • Washington Post • Bob Woodward • Richard Nixon • Mark Felt • L. Patrick Gray

OPINION

 Bush Can Teach 
 Obama What 
 Not to Do: 
 Woodward 

Woodward has seen all the mistakes and lived to tell about it

Jan 15, 09 9:49 AM CST
(Newser) - George W. Bush’s presidency could teach Barack Obama many lessons—about what not to do. Bob Woodward lays out 10 of them in today’s Washington Post:
  • "Presidents need to draw people out and make sure bad news makes it to the Oval Office": Bush
... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Donald Rumsfeld • Condoleezza Rice • Bob Woodward • Bush legacy • Colin Powell • George W. Bush

 Bush Official: 
 US Tortured 
 Gitmo Inmate 

9/11 suspect nearly
died from interrogation, says Pentagon honcho

Jan 14, 09 7:21 AM CST
(Newser) - The US military tortured a Saudi national suspected of attempted participation in the 9/11 attacks, according to a top Bush administration official. In an interview with Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, Susan J. Crawford says the suspect endured sustained isolation, nudity, humiliation, and exposure to extreme temperatures that left... More »

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torture • Bob Woodward • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Mohammed al-Qahtani • 9/11 attacks • Susan J. Crawford

APPRECIATION

 Deep Throat Made 
 Newspapers 'Cool' 


Dec 20, 08 1:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Mark Felt's life inspires an appreciation of a heroic man, but also of the romance and significance of journalism, Hank Stuever writes in the Washington Post. In fact, you could say “that the idea of him had died already, a few years ago, when he allowed the world... More »

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Washington DC • Bob Woodward • Carl Bernstein • obituary • Richard Nixon • Deep Throat • Mark Felt • appreciation

 Watergate's 
 'Deep Throat' 
 Dead at 95 

W. Mark Felt was secret source who helped expose Richard Nixon's abuses of power

Dec 19, 08 3:18 AM CST
(Newser) - The FBI agent who helped bring down Richard Nixon has died at his California home at the age of 95, the New York Times reports. W. Mark Felt was "Deep Throat"—the anonymous source who supplied crucial leads to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward about White House abuses... More »

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FBI • Watergate • Bob Woodward • Carl Bernstein • Deep Throat • Mark Felt

White House Lambastes Woodward

Denies book's claims; author unveils shocker on death teams

Sep 9, 08 5:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House has angrily rejected Bob Woodward's claim that the administration was riven by dissent ahead of the surge in Iraq, CNN reports. Woodward wrote in his new book that President Bush pushed troop levels past the Joint Chiefs, ignoring their worries about over-extending the military. The War Within... More »

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troop surge • Joint Chiefs of Staff • White House • Bob Woodward • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Bush Pulled Rank on Military Over Surge

Joint Chiefs were pushed aside, new Woodward book says

Sep 8, 08 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the months leading up to the Iraq surge, President Bush faced a revolt by frustrated Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward writes in a new book, The War Within. Bush dumped the military leaders’ advice as Iraq spun out of control in fall of 2006,... More »

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military • Peter Pace • Joint Chiefs of Staff • David Petraeus • Bob Woodward • surge • Gen. George Casey • Iraq war • George W. Bush

 US 'Spied on Iraqi Leaders'

Woodward book reveals finds 'detached' Bush 'often failed to lead' on Iraq

Sep 5, 08 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration conducted an extensive spying operation on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders even while seeking to win their trust, according to a new book from the Washington Post's Bob Woodward. The book portrays an administration hamstrung by indecision as its Iraq strategy fell apart in... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Donald Rumsfeld • Nouri al-Maliki • Bob Woodward • spying • Gen. George Casey • Iraq war

Top-Secret Woodward Tome Gets a Name

White House braces for debut of Iraq-centric The War Within

Aug 19, 08 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bob Woodward’s fourth book on the Bush White House, originally a mere 352 pages, has ballooned into 496 pages of inside dope and is due in stores Sept. 8, Politico reports. And the mystery-shrouded volume, which focuses on the Iraq conflict, officially has a name: The War Within: A ... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Condoleezza Rice • Bob Woodward • publishing • Bush legacy • biography • Iraq war • Simon & Schuster • George W. Bush • Alice Mayhew

ANALYSIS

Why Obama Might Have
a Jones Jones

Ex-general stood up to Rumsfeld—but he's also a McCain pal

Jun 11, 08 3:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Analysts were surprised to see the name of retired general James Jones on Barack Obama's vice-presidential shortlist yesterday, but Noam Scheiber, in the New Republic thinks he knows what the former NATO commander was doing there. Per Bob Woodward’s most recent book, Scheiber notes Jones was so put off... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • John McCain • Donald Rumsfeld • Bob Woodward • James Jones • vice president

Al-Qaeda Issues New Threat

Osama second-in-command vows "imminent" end of the West

Jul 5, 07 4:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden's No. 2 has issued a new videotaped threat to the US, claiming that the collapse of the West is imminent. Wearing a white robe and speaking in a hectoring tone, the Egyptian cleric Ayman al-Zawahiri calls for unity among warring Iraqi factions against America. The 95-minute  al... More »

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Bob Woodward • video • Ayman al Zawahiri • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda

Woodward, Tenet Form Perfect Storm
of Ego

Whine over who wronged whom

May 15, 07 7:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Once upon a time, former CIA director George Tenet and superstar political reporter Bob Woodward were friendly, but now they're locked in an ego battle too degrading to produce any winners. The New Yorker this month gives each space to snipe at the other and explores what the whinefest means... More »

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CIA • George Tenet • news • Bob Woodward • reporter

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