Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward
Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodwardis an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter and is now an associate editor of the Post...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth26 March 1943
CityGeneva, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
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Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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I should have, as I have many, many times, taken him into my confidence. And I did not.
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There's a great tradition in the White House, if you don't like the story, you denounce the reporter.
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The terms of engagement change when a reporter and reporters are being subpoenaed, agreeing to testify, being forced to testify, being jailed. That's the new element in this. And what it did, it caused me to become even more secretive about sources, and to protect them. I couldn't do my job if I couldn't protect them. And to really make sure that I don't become part of this process, but not to be less aggressive in reporting the news.
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Given Cheney's background on national security going back to the Ford years, his time on the House Intelligence Committee, and as secretary of defense, Bush said at the top of his list of things he wanted Cheney to do was intelligence. In the first months of the new administration, Cheney made the rounds of the intelligence agencies - the CIA, the National Security Agency, which intercepted communications, and the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency.
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I don't say there's a secret deal or any collaboration on this,
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If Ben - I would have told him - and I should have told Len in this case,
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I explained in detail that I was trying to protect my sources. That's job No. 1 in a case like this, ... I hunkered down. I'm in the habit of keeping secrets. I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed.
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I am definitely opposed, vehemently opposed, to jailing journalists.
I apologized because I should have told him about this much sooner,