'I feel like I did in the Vietnam days - I hate to pay taxes just so they can go and bomb more people'

Reporter whose scoops give the Bush administration sleepless nights

Julian Borger in Washington
Friday April 14, 2006
The Guardian

A generation ago aspiring journalists looked up to the Watergate team of Woodward and Bernstein as their idols. But times have changed. One half of the Washington Post duo, Carl Bernstein, has moved into academia, while Bob Woodward has grown rich and part of the Washington establishment.

His books on the Bush administration have leant heavily on interviews granted by the president and his top aides. Far from shaking the administration, they were advertised as recommended reading by the Bush re-election campaign.