Posted on 10/04/2006 8:34:08 AM PDT by kellynla
Bob Woodward’s “State of Denial” got scooped on what was presented on national TV as the book’s most sensational revelation—that enemy attacks in Iraq have been escalating.
The Government Accountability Office and the Department of Defense beat Woodward to reporting this information, and reported it in greater detail.
The government’s open reporting on the increasing number of enemy attacks also refutes the charge Woodward made in collaboration with Mike Wallace on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday that the administration kept this “trend” secret to deceive people about how bad the war is going.
Woodward writes about a May 24, 2006 Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence assessment that was classified “Secret.” It included two charts indicating enemy attacks in Iraq were escalating. A bar graph (reproduced on page 472 of the book) indicated that between January and May of this year average attacks per day had increased from 72 to 113. A line graph (reproduced on page 473) indicated attacks per month had risen from less than 500 in May 2003 to more than 3,500 in May 2006.
On page 476, Woodward concedes that two days after the “Secret” JCS intelligence assessment was circulated in May, DOD published its quarterly report to Congress on the Iraq war and included a similar chart on the attack trend. “Though there was a chart buried in the middle of the 65-page document showing that average weekly attacks were up to over 600,” wrote Woodward, “the document put the most positive spin on stability and security.”
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Look-up "arrogant *sshole" in Webster's Dictionary (or Roget's Thesauraus) and there you'll see Bob Woodward's ugly puss smiling back at you. I'm sure Bob is happy to be back in the good graces of the Washington Elite.
Hes only 35 years past his prime.
I'm surprised Bob had time to write this book seeing how he spends every waking hour:
1) Ensuring that no other politcal crisis is reported to rise to the level of Watergate.
2) Ensuring that no other reporter ever has anything that rises to the level of Watergate.
The Democrats and the MSM are big on exposing secrets that aren't secret.
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