I've been following all the excellent analysis and commentary surrounding Bob "I didn't want to get subpoenaed" Woodward and yet I kept thinking things weren't adding up. So a parsing I went...

And what I found leads me to believe these two "masters of the universe" really think we're stupid. And Woodward is no journalist. And Downie is no editor.

Libby was indicted for lying to investigators. Now it looks like he might have a bunk buddy behind bars:

Woodward's statement claimed that, "I testified that after the mid-June 2003 interview, I told Walter Pincus, a reporter at The Post, without naming my source, that I understood Wilson's wife worked at the CIA as a WMD analyst."

When approached with this claim, Pincus responded, "Are you kidding? I certainly would have remembered that."

The Post story noted that Pincus had already been questioned in the investigation, though it did not specify whether or not he was under oath or before the grand jury.

Most likely, Pincus' testimony to the investigators was consistent with his public proclamations -- that he had NOT been told of Plame's identity at the time.

Woodward on the other hand, testified that Pincus DID know of Plame's identity at that time.

Given the circumstances that were unfolding, it was highly unlikely, as Pincus attested, that such a conversation could possibly be forgotten.

Someone lied to the investigators and that someone should be indicted.

Via Josh Marshall, a stunner from tomorrow's Washington Post:

Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.

In a more than two-hour deposition, Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive, according to a statement Woodward released yesterday.

Woodward's Statement is here (pdf file).

Further, in the main Post article:

Woodward did not share the information with Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. until last month, and the only Post reporter whom Woodward said he remembers telling in the summer of 2003 does not recall the conversation taking place.