David Corn Fact Checks Bob Woodward

Brian Zick

David Corn compared Bob Woodward's account (written in his book Plan of Attack) of the January 31, 2003, Bush/Blair pre-war meeting with a memo written by David Manning, Blair's chief foreign policy advisor, who was actually in the room. It appears that all of Woodward's vaunted "insider access" ultimately served to produce a handsome little work of fiction.

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