‘In “Billions Over Baghdad,” we knew that simply reporting the costs of the Iraq War in mind-numbing billions wasn’t good enough.’

‘We had put the social scientists on notice that journalists increasingly would be competitors in their field.’

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‘President Bush was obsessed from the beginning of his administration with what he regarded as unjustified intrusions by the press.’

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‘President Bush was obsessed from the beginning of his administration with what he regarded as unjustified intrusions by the press.’

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