Woodward Dismisses Conspiracy In Plame Case
Our good friend the Minuteman notes this story in the Harvard Crimson with some good PlameGate dish:
“His source was not in the White House, I don’t believe,” Woodward said of Novak over a private dinner at the Institute of Politics on Dec. 5. He did not indicate what information, if any, he had to corroborate the claim.
…At the Harvard dinner, Woodward sparred with his friend and former Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein, over the motives behind the leak. The pair had just come from the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics, where they spoke for more than an hour before television cameras and a large audience. The invite-only dinner afterward, which was attended by Harvard students as well as a handful of journalists and politicians, was declared on-the-record from the outset by Alex C. Jones, director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, who moderated the dinner conversation.
Responding to Bernstein’s claim that the release of Plame’s identity was a “calculated leak” by the Bush administration, Woodward said flatly, “I know a lot about this, and you’re wrong.”
Good stuff…
Plame Leak Outside White House
In what has to be a massive blow to the leftward fringes, Bob Woodward has confident (with accuracy in my opinion) that Novak’s source on Plame is outside the White House. Via Decision ‘08, Tom Maguire discusses the scoop from this Harvar…
[...] In what has to be a massive blow to the leftward fringes, Bob Woodward has confident (with accuracy in my opinion) that Novak’s source on Plame is outside the White House. Via Decision ‘08, Tom Maguire discusses the scoop from this Harvard Crimson article: But in a conversation at Harvard earlier this month, Woodward hinted that he knows the identity of yet another key player in the case: Robert D. Novak’s original source for his July 2003 column on Plame, which touched off the scandal in the first place. [...]