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11 lawyers But [managing editor] Simons doubted out loud the rightness of the exercise and worried about the paper. 11 While Woodward- Bernstein say "they didn't obtain info from jurors they approached, 11 Post atty Edward Bennett Williams "talked to Sirica and prosecutors in an attempt to keep the 2 reporters out of jail. 11 Sirica warned an effort to get info from juror was "potentially ground for contempt. Sirica didn't mention Woodward and Berstein by name and they didn't admit in response to other reporters' questions that theydbeen the journalists castigated in court. 11 They write in their new book that they'd 'chosen expediency over principle and, caught in the act, their role had been covered up."

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