Now I'm not a huge fan of Arianna Huffington. She spends way too much time bragging about hanging out with her celebrity friends and sailing on yachts. And she did a complete sellout job on her date with Chalabi. But she does argue well and in an entertaining manner. On her
website, she lists 15 questions she'd like to ask Bob Woodward.
Below are some of the better questions:
1. If you didn't tell your editor, Len Downie about the CIA leak bevcause you were so afraid of being subpeonaed, why did you supposedly tell Walter Pincus? Did you trust Pincus but not Downie?
- Why were you afraid of being subpoenaed in 2003? Subpoenas of reporters didn't begin until 2004.
- Why did you come forward to Len Downie in late Oct. to reveal your source? This was supposedly before your source approached Fitzgerald, so what motivated you?
- Why did you criticize Fitzgerald and his investigation without revealing that you had something to hide from him?
- Why did you say categorically that there was no harm done by the outing of Valerie Plame? How do you know this when the CIA as yet to issue an after-action report?
- Are you now writing about the Plame affair, and if you are is it for one of your books or for the Post?
- You've praised Judy Miller's decision to go to jail and offered to do time for her. Why?
- Had your source testified previously to Fitzgerald or before the Grand Jury?
- Did you remind your source of the June 2003 conversations and did that prompt him or her to go to Fitz?
Fun, no? Woodward had the unmitigated gall to keep his job at the Washington Post, which was involved in investigating the Fitzgerald investigation, AND hide behind the prestige of that job to have access to the White House and be their stenographer and not tell his employers what he knew pertaining to the CIA leak.
And it gets worse. On NPR Woodward said of the investigation, "There is not the kind of compelling evidence that there was some crime involved here." He consistently dissed Fitzgerald, saying his behavior was "disgraceful"
Well now he's got some 'splainin' to do.