Thanks for the ping. The article makes some good points about Watergate being used for partisan purposes. However, it takes at face value Woodward's questionable identification of Felt as the sole source for Deep Throat's leaks; and there are some other relevant items. Probably the most relevant to the article's theme is the role Ted Kennedy played in manipulating the investigation, highlighted in Geoff Shepard's
books on the topic. In relation to this, the Nedzi Committee investigation of the CIA's role in Watergate found that not only did Kennedy have advance knowledge the break-ins through a tip from a Democrat-friendly PI firm, but that Watergate burglar James McCord knew that Kennedy knew, yet proceeded with the break-ins anyway. McCord's other behavior, such as taping the door open a second time after the night watchman had already removed the tape the first time, along with other pecularities of the crime scene suggest that McCord and Hunt intended to get caught, and had a different agenda/s for being there than their ostensible one. Also relevant to the article's point on how no one mounted a strong defense of Nixon is the fact that prominent Republicans also helped bring Nixon down. (Probably not coincidentally, some of the same also played a role in getting Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller in position for their ascents--prior to a curious series of concentrated assassination attempts on Ford in September 1975.) The Get Nixon Squad was a bipartisan effort.