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Given Cheney's background on national security going back to the Ford years, his time on the House Intelligence Committee, and as secretary of defense, Bush said at the top of his list of things he wanted Cheney to do was intelligence. In the first months of the new administration, Cheney made the rounds of the intelligence agencies - the CIA, the National Security Agency, which intercepted communications, and the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency.

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 Intelligence

I went, 'Whoa,' because I knew I'd learned about this in mid-June, a week, 10 days before.

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I am definitely opposed, vehemently opposed, to jailing journalists.

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I had no recollection of doing so.

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Clinton said no president ever who served would talk like that, as if it is out of his hand,

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Clinton said no president ever who served would talk like that, as if it is out of his hand. Then I realized, that oh, yes, Bush is a fatalist. That you do the best you can and then leave it to the fates, or to God in Bush's case.

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Ultimately I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us, but, is it good news quality information that defines who somebody is?

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It's very important that people trust the media.

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 Media

[In a telephone interview, Mr. Woodward said he had apologized to Mr. Downie for not disclosing his own part in such a long-running story long ago and said he had kept a deliberately low profile to protect his sources.] The terms of engagement change when a reporter and reporters are being subpoenaed, agreeing to testify, being forced to testify, being jailed, ... That's the new element in this. And what it did, it caused me to become even more secretive about sources, and to protect them. I couldn't do my job if I couldn't protect them. And to really make sure that I don't become part of this process, but not to be less aggressive in reporting the news.

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I wish I did have a bombshell. I don't even have a firecracker. I'm sorry.

Bob Woodward