Frank Rich on Woodward

Tennessee Guerilla Women has Frank Rich's piece on Bob Woodward. $Q: Mr. Woodward mentions in passing the White House Iraq Group, convened to market the war, but ignores the direct correlation between WHIG’s inception and the accelerating hysteria in the Bush-Cheney-Rice warnings about Saddam’s impending mushroom clouds in the late summer and fall of 2002. This story was broken by Barton Gellman and Walter Pincus in Mr. Woodward’s own paper eight months before “Plan of Attack” was published. At Patrick Fitzgerald's press conference the Special Prosecutor said "The truth is the engine of our judicial system, and if you compromise the truth, the whole process is lost". Bob Woodward, appearing on Larry King Live after his involvement in the case was revealed, said the statement applied to journalism as well as the judicial system. But the truth was right there in front of him when he was writing "Plan of Attack". Unfortunately for all he willfully disregarded connecting the dots and chose fidelity to his anonymous sources as his highest ideal.