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New Woodward book another blow to Bush administration

Washington Post reporter and author Bob Woodward is releasing State of Denial, in which he charges that “the White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that thousands of additional American troops were desperately needed to quell the insurgency there,” according to The New York Times.

“Like Mr. Woodward’s previous works, the book includes lengthy verbatim quotations from conversations and describes what senior officials are thinking at various times, without identifying the sources for the information,” The Times reports. “Mr. Woodward writes that his book is based on “interviews with President Bush’s national security team, their deputies, and other senior and key players in the administration responsible for the military, the diplomacy, and the intelligence on Iraq.”

Quillblog notes that Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s newspaper articles in The Washington Post helped bring down Nixon’s administration. This is Woodward’s third book inspired by the Bush administration. How many Deep Throats and books would it take?

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