bob woodward -a 'very senior' white house person warned me i'd 'regret' what i'm doing

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BOB WOODWARD: A 'Very Senior' White

House Person Warned Me I'd 'Regret'

What I'm Doingrett LoGiurato | Feb. 27, 2013, 6:53 PM | 533,469 | 563

ob Woodward said this evening on CNN

hat a "very senior person" at the White

ouse warned him in an email that he would

regret doing this," the same day he has

ontinued to slam President Barack Obama

ver the looming forced cuts known as the

equester.

NN host Wolf Blitzersaid that the network invited a

White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the

White House declined.

t makes me very uncomfortable to have the White

ouse telling reporters, 'You're going to regret doing

omething that you believe in,'" Woodward said.

think they're confused," Woodward said of the White House's pushback on his reporting.

arliertoday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Woodward ripped into Obama in what has become an ongoing feud between the

eteran Washington Post journalist and the White House. Woodward said Obama was showing a "kind of madness I

aven't seen in a long time" for a decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns.

he Defense Department said in early February that it would not deploy the U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf, citing

udget concerns relating to the looming cuts known as the sequester.

Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, 'Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget

ocument?'" Woodward said on MSNBC.

Or George W. Bush saying, 'You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need?'" Or

ven Bill Clinton saying, 'You know, I'm not going to attack Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters,' ... because of

ome budget document?"

ast weekend, Woodward called out Obama for what he said was "moving the goal posts" on the sequester by requesting

at revenue be part of a deal to avert it.

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