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BOB WOODWARD: A 'Very Senior' White
House Person Warned Me I'd 'Regret'
What I'm Doingrett LoGiurato | Feb. 27, 2013, 6:53 PM | 533,469 | 563
ob Woodward said this evening on CNN
hat a "very senior person" at the White
ouse warned him in an email that he would
regret doing this," the same day he has
ontinued to slam President Barack Obama
ver the looming forced cuts known as the
equester.
NN host Wolf Blitzersaid that the network invited a
White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the
White House declined.
t makes me very uncomfortable to have the White
ouse telling reporters, 'You're going to regret doing
omething that you believe in,'" Woodward said.
think they're confused," Woodward said of the White House's pushback on his reporting.
arliertoday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Woodward ripped into Obama in what has become an ongoing feud between the
eteran Washington Post journalist and the White House. Woodward said Obama was showing a "kind of madness I
aven't seen in a long time" for a decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns.
he Defense Department said in early February that it would not deploy the U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf, citing
udget concerns relating to the looming cuts known as the sequester.
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, 'Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget
ocument?'" Woodward said on MSNBC.
Or George W. Bush saying, 'You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need?'" Or
ven Bill Clinton saying, 'You know, I'm not going to attack Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters,' ... because of
ome budget document?"
ast weekend, Woodward called out Obama for what he said was "moving the goal posts" on the sequester by requesting
at revenue be part of a deal to avert it.
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