. >> two reporters involving powerful assistant, james dorsey, m. scott malone. >> when ever you write a book i probably should have listed 20 or 30 reporters there. but these two spent the most time with me working on it. scott malone is i think one of the better investigative reporters in the city. he's done excellent work for frontline pbs. james dorsey who's worked in the past with christian science monitor and for upi is now working for the washington times knows the region very well and is very very well plugged in to military, other circles down there. and at times in a crisis situation, it pays off for a journalist to work with other reporters because you share information, you share insights. and also there's safety in numbers. and it's much better to go to a dangerous situation with two people -- james dorsey and i, for instance rented that school bus together and he came across the costa rican border and drove up from costa rica to panama three days before the invasion. >> you have any problem that your friends and other reporters know wh

james dorsey and i rented that school bus together. we came across the costa rica to border and drove up panama three days after the invasion. >> to you have any problems writing a book like this that friends and other orders -- other reporters know what you know, and they have to not publish it? how'd you come up with information, together? >> i was liberal printing information i would find out along the way. there is so much information in the book you don't get at all into a newspaper. by and large i didn't find that was a problem. even if you had a newsbreak, you can't flush it out. known the way you can in a book. often, i didn't find it was a conflict of interest. >> some names are viewers would helpedze, david ignatius me shape the same in writing. why david ignatius? >> david ignatius is an old friend of mine. he was the middle east correspondent for "the wall street journal." it help to have a very trained eye. david has been the editor of the outlook session, a trained eye looked over your manuscript. every rider needs a good