Should we have expected something bearing a closer resemblance to true journalistic principles from Pincus?
Editor and Publisher: “Pincus: Woodward ‘Asked Me to Keep Him Out’ of Plame Reporting,” by Joe Strupp, November 16, 2005.
Walter Pincus, the longtime Washington Post reporter and one of several journalists who testified in the Valerie Plame case, said he believed as far back as 2003 that Bob Woodward had some involvement in the case but he did not pursue the information because Woodward asked him not to.
"He asked me to keep him out of the reporting and I agreed to do that," Pincus said today. His comments followed a Post story today about Woodward's testimony on Monday before special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, in which Woodward reportedly disclosed that a senior White House official told him about Plame's identity as a CIA operative a month before her identity was disclosed publicly.
What would Walter have said if Judy Miller asked him the same thing?