Is Bob Woodward a right-wing shill?

[Goathead]

During a press conference today held by Judge Laurence Silberman and former Senator Chuck Robb, co-chairs of the commission investigating U.S. intelligence on Iraq, Silberman referred to the "Woodward book". Silbermen has been described as "a fierce ideologue who doesn't let his judicial responsibilities get in the way of his Republican activism." I can only assume Silberman was referring to Plan of Attack. Another gentleman, with whom I've been having an on-going discussion about the current state of affairs, also advised me to read the "Woodward book", not once but about five times in one hour. This man is a self described neo-conservative and a republican, though he claims he has no love for Bush. Does the book try to let Bush off the hook? I have not read the book and I have heard people refer to Woodward as a mouthpiece for the right among other conspiratorial comments. It sounds as if at the very least Woodward is a Bush apologist. I'm going to try to find Plan of Attack at the library.(Gotta stop buying so many books! Plus I'm sure republicans think that libraries are communist institutions, which is all the better.) Anybody got any insight on Plan of Attack?

[canichelouis]

1. Hell yeah

[adwon]

2. I don't think so

His book Veil wasn't terribly kind to the Reagan administration.

Woodward, by his own admission, doesn't really write history. His books are ok to start a potential area of research, but not definitive at all.

[Demit]

3. That's the book in which Woodward asked Bush did he consult with his

father about going to war with Saddam and he said "I answer to a higher Father". Woodward was pretty stunned by that and made no bones about it. I thought the book was a pretty clear indictment of Bush and all his cronies. Yet it didn't seem to faze them as much as it should have.

I've heard it rumored that Woodward is a longtime CIA operative. but he has never been shy about being critical of this admin. Who knows. Deep deep psy-ops?

[lenidog]

4. I must have gotten old

I have actually lived long enough to see someone ask if Bob Woodward is a right wing shill. Nixon would probably disagree in that assessment.

[comsymp]

10. Even then - 30+ yrs ago - Woodward was a Republican

/just sayin'

[Just Me]

13. And based upon that you think he's a "right wing shill"?

:shrug:

[comsymp]

17. Actually, I didn't indicate WHAT I think~

Was simply responding to the post above which seemed to imply that his Watergate work (again, over 30 years ago) negated the possibility - which is, of course, ridiculous.

ON EDIT: FWIW, I don't believe he's a RW shill. I do, however, believe that he's a whore and Bush apologist. That doesn't mean that he gives the BA the Gannon / Schmidt / Faux treatment - I'd be more inclined to put him in the Isikoff column.

[Just Me]

18. *LOL* alrighty then. n/t

[spindoctor]

20. LMAO nt

:dem:

[blm]

5. I have believed for a long time that Woodward shills for the BFEE. I think

it is no coincidence that Woodward, who was with Naval Intelligence, was placed at the Post and within 4 months a Deep Throat emerged. I have long held that Deep Throat is Poppy Bush, who needed to manipulate Nixon out of the presidency for the real fascist bosses.

Throughout Bush1's presidency, Woodward could never find a story of anything he did wrong. Woodward also declared on LKL that Enron was a nonstory.

It was no coincidence that Woodward and that propagandist from the Moonie Tiimes, Bill Sammon, were the only two shill journalists allowed to "report" on BushInc immediately following 9-11.

[lenidog]

6. Damn excellent agent

How many intel agents have won two Pullitzers during their undercover careers. The man has got to be the most excellent undercover agent in history. He takes his cover seriously

[blm]

22. That Pulitzer Prize winner stated there was "No story" in Enron.

That Pulitzer Prize winner couldn't find anything worth reporting in IranContra or BCCI?

Two of the biggest crimes against the Constitution of any administration and Woodward had nothing much to say.

Do you contend that Bush, the most secretive president in history, chose Woodward to report on 9-11 because he knew Woodward would be tough on him? HAHAHAHAHAHA.........

[oasis]

8. I'm convinced that he is since reading about him on a 3/30 Octafish thread

which exposes "Operation Mockingbird".

[nashville_brook]

15. do you have a link? sounds fascinating... n/t

[oasis]

21. General Discussion :Do you know your BFEE? dead men tell no tales

Octafish is the author. I'll kick it to the first page.

[suziedemocrat]

9. What's BFEE? n/t

[mattclearing]

11. Bush Family Evil Empire n/t

[Goathead]

14. He would be the perfect deep cover operative

Destroy one republican to prop another one up. Besides, it has been well established that "The Agency" knows no loyalties to any particular party. Employees and agents are loyal only to "The Agency"

[BuyingThyme]

23. You're close.

Agents are loyal to the corporate fronts for which they work within the agency. The CIA is a collection of businesses, centered around oil and defense.

[Left Is Write]

16. Question -

I've been meaning to ask this for some time about the acronym BFEE. What is that? Bush Family Evil Empire?

Your theory about Woodward and Deep Throat is food for thought.

[i miss america]

19. My sentiments exactly, BLM

[Minstrel Boy]

7. More accurately, a shill for military-intelligence.

Read Jim Houghton's book on Watergate, Secret Agenda. Woodward was a mouthpiece for the CIA's cover story, and shielded the agency from accountability.

Some within the CIA were more than happy to bring down Nixon.

[mattclearing]

12. Hopefully they haven't all been purged yet. n/t