"As any prosecutor and surely Mr. Woodward knows, the person on the inside who calls and says 'I want to talk' is an informant, or snitch, and is generally looking to bargain a deal, to improve his or her own situation, to place the blame on someone else in return for being allowed to plead down or out certain charges, and therefore "knows that his or her testimony will be unrespected, even reviled, subjected to rigorous examination and often rejection.""
"A new book on the Biden's wars serves as a stark reminder that the Democrats need to formulate a new foreign policy-as well as reckon with the one they had. Woodward's latest book, simply called War, is, as its title suggests, an account of the Biden administration's handling of the two major conflicts that erupted during Joe Biden's years as president-specifically the wars in Ukraine and Gaza."
A new book on the Biden's wars warns that Democrats must formulate a new foreign policy and reckon with prior choices. A 1996 essay performed a vivisection of Bob Woodward's reportorial method, arguing that his approach hinged on serving as a conduit for sources' agendas and on waiting for insiders to volunteer. The essay characterized insiders as informants seeking bargains and unlikely to face rigorous skepticism when their accounts are burnished into the inside story. Woodward's latest book, War, recounts the Biden administration's handling of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
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