Bob Woodward leaked the deal memo from the proposed 2011 grand bargain, which didn’t happen for a number of reasons, none of them being Barack Obama’s reticence to cut a deal. In addition to cuts to things like TRICARE and Pell grants and veteran retirement, the “sequester” — the punishment for Congress not reaching a [...]

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein sat for an interview at the American Society of News Editors yesterday, and they were asked about how a Watergate-type scandal would play out in the Internet age. They mocked a set of papers from a Yale journalism class, which they claimed said that the Watergate scandal would pop up [...]

The release of some early excerpts of Bob Woodward’s palace intrigue book, focused mainly on Afghanistan and foreign policy, has predictably set tongues a-wagging in DC. I’m sure it’ll be the hit of the election season. It’s only notable that the White House isn’t disputing and is in fact embracing the book in the sense [...]