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White House attacks Bob Woodward for telling it to stop Iran regardless of sequester

Bob Woodward? They're attacking Watergate hero Bob Woodward? (Hat Tip: Jack W and Memeorandum).

Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.

CNN host Wolf Blitzer said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.

"It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, 'You're going to regret doing something that you believe in,'" Woodward said.

"I think they're confused," Woodward said of the White House's pushback on his reporting.
The White House aide who Woodward said threatened him was Gene Sperling, the director of the White House Economic Council, BuzzFeed's Ben Smith reported.

Huh? What's that about?

Let's go to the videotape.


All I can say is, thank you Bob Woodward for proving that the phrase 'honest reporter' need not be an oxymoron, and thanks also for pointing out that stopping Iran cannot be dependent on a budget.

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Iranian nuclear threat, US economy

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:52 PM