Bob Woodward

...doubts or hesitations among his close advisers. According to Bob Woodward, Condoleezza Rice failed to express some of her worries because, she said, "the president almost demanded optimism. He didn't like pessimism, hand-wringing or...

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...almost unfettered access. He sat down with President George W. Bush twice, and also interviewed Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. One secret about what is...

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...had conceded for several days that it had. A State Department spokesman said later that while the meeting definitely happened, Rice and Tenet disputed Woodward's characterization of her response." Philip Shenon and Mark Mazzetti write in...

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...truly awful. Weapons inspector David Kay, charged with finding WMD after the Iraq invasion, referred to Rice in Bob Woodward's "State of Denial" as "probably the worst national security adviser since the office was created." As secretary of...

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...have a great relationship with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. But Woodward's book gives insider detail: Rumsfeld wouldn't return her calls until she complained to Bush. (Rice denies this.) Rumsfeld brushes off Card, saying that he is in...

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...that "reduced its sting." And Woodward quotes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as saying in an interview that summer, "I don't think you'll find that there is a lot of disagreement about the strategy. I think you'll find that most...

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Woodward's sources are astonishing. He quotes from top secret documents and relates verbatim conversations of key figures like Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Robert Gates, Dick Cheney and numerous Bush staffers. Before the mid-term elections in...

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...host of other senior officials. Woodward has regularly visited the White House, State Department, Pentagon, various intelligence agencies and the private homes of generals and other officials, high and low. The Washington Post, where...

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...and others into line.' . . . And Woodward quotes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as saying in an interview that summer [of 2006], 'I don't think you'll find that there is a lot of disagreement about the strategy. I think you'll find that...

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