WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Word came Wednesday that Washington Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame, knew the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame before it was published in a July 2003 column.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/16/cnna.downie/
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November 16, 2005
Woodward Says His Plame Source Not Libby
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/11/16/national/w105011S11.DTL
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By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 16, 2005; 1:18 PM

Bob Woodward apologized today to The Washington Post's executive editor for failing to tell him for more than two years that a senior Bush administration official had told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame, even as an investigation of those leaks mushroomed into a national scandal.
"I hunkered down. I'm in the habit of keeping secrets. I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111601286.html