Excerpt: Feet to the Fire

By Kristina Borjesson and John Walcott, AlterNet. Posted January 2, 2006.

Knight Ridder's Washington bureau chief speaks about media missteps in reporting the war -- and why he thinks we invaded Iraq in the first place.

Editor's Note: The following excerpt, an interview from 'Feet to the Fire' by Kristina Borjesson, is reprinted with permission from Prometheus Books.

More often than any other journalist or news organization, Knight Ridder was mentioned by those in "Feet to the Fire" as the best source for post-9/11 reporting.

The person most responsible for setting this platinum standard of journalism is John Walcott.

Long after the Twin Towers had collapsed, Walcott and his crack team of reporters were virtually alone in their pursuit of what the real intelligence analysts were saying about the White House's case against Saddam.