#journalismism Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward received a "veiled threat" from the White House last week, The Politico reported last night. The "threat"? "I think you will regret staking out that claim." Chilling! The threatener, Ben Smith later reported, was White House Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, who'd emailed Woodward in a dispute about Woodward's account of the origins of tomorrow's government sequestration: Woodward claims was the Obama administration's idea; Sperling disagrees.