What the Press Missed in Woodward's Plan of Attack

From Editor & Publisher magazine:

So what has the media missed in the massive coverage of Bob Woodward's best-selling book "Plan of Attack?"

"National intelligence assets spying on Hans Blix,'' Woodward told the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday, referring to the chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. ''And Bush was getting these reports and felt that there was incongruity between what Blix was saying publicly and what he was actually doing. It makes it very clear we were wiretapping Hans Blix.''

Woodward, of The Washington Post, also charged that the press should have been more "skeptical and inquisitive" about President Bush's rush to war with Iraq and the dubious intelligence he and others used to justify the invasion. He blamed journalists, including himself, for not being aggressive enough in questioning the intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. Woodward said one national security source told him the ''the intelligence was skimpy.''