HUFFINGTON POST …Here’s an excerpt from Gene Sperling:
“I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today. I do understand your problems with a couple of our statements in the fall — but feel on the other hand that you focus on a few specific trees that gives a very wrong perception of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. But I do truly believe you should rethink your comment about saying that Potus asking for revenues is moving the goal post. I know you may not believe this, but as a friend, I think you will regret staking out that claim … My apologies again for raising my voice on the call with you. Feel bad about that and truly apologize.”
Woodward, who would later profess to be unnerved by Sperling’s email, replied very calmly:
“Gene: You do not ever have to apologize to me. You get wound up because you are making your points and you believe them. This is all part of a serious discussion. I for one welcome a little heat; there should more given the importance. I also welcome your personal advice.” … (more)
EDITOR: The above article fleetinglh was posted on NewsMax but then apparently taken down, perhaps because it contradicted NewsMax’s lead article to the contrary.
Bob Woodward of the Washiington Post got a lot of credit, a good part deserved, for breaking the story on Watergate. On the other hand, decades later we learned he was used by the highest level of the FBI as its conduit to the public.
On Friday moroning on “Good Morning Joe”, Woodward admitted that the Washington Post headline that he had been “threatened” was inaccurate, not based on anything that Woodward had said about his conversation with Sterling. However, he implied some that saying he would “regret” what he wrote was an attempt to intimidate him. Others on the panel found that difficult to accept. We do too.
It appears that some editor of the Washington Post mischaracterizing what Woodward had said.
