The questions that weren't asked

[kweerwolf]

From "The War Room" in Salon.com:

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were junior Metro reporters, the kind of guys who normally wouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the national political coverage of one of the nation's biggest newspapers. How is it that they were breaking stories that would ultimately help bring down a president, stories that the more experienced hands in the White House press corps weren't getting?

It all seemed so improbable then. It doesn't seem so today.

Yesterday morning in the White House Rose Garden, George W. Bush held his first full press conference since the Sunday Times of London revealed that Tony Blair was told in July of 2002 that the Bush administration had decided to use military force to overthrow Saddam Hussein and that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support that decision.

What did Bush say about the now infamous Downing Street memo at yesterday's news conference? Not a word. Nobody bothered to ask him about it.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/06/01/reporters/index.html

[doodadem]

1. I am sure

that those reporters and their questions were screened beforehand.