The Daily Background

Expect a lot of scoops to be coming out in the days following the release of the new Bob Woodward chronicle. Woodward, who gave President Bush mostly favorable print in his previous two books about the Administration, is taking a decidedly different (and more critical) tack this time around. Raw Story reports on the first such mini-scoop out of the book:

Woodward is set to appear on Sunday’s edition of 60 Minutes to talk about his new book, State of Denial: Bush at War III, which will hit bookstores on Monday.

“According to Woodward, insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact the administration has kept secret,” CBS News reports.

“It’s getting to the point now where there are eight-, nine-hundred attacks a week,” Woodward tells Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes.

“That’s more than 100 a day,” says Woodward. “That is four an hour attacking our forces.”

As I said, expect more of these soonish. The same type of thing that happened after Corn and Isikoff released Hubris (the book that outed Armitage as the alleged first to leak Plame’s identity… officially at least) will likely happen now.

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