How the Washington Post, not Nixon, covered up Watergate

The Blaze ^ | May 17, 2024 | John D. O'Connor

[miele man]

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[ProgressingAmerica]

In 2019, my book "Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism".....

I would strongly recommend people either read or listen to Will Irwin's study of Journalism. Today's advocacy journalism has been with us since day one when "Objective" journalism was born in the 1920s. It has always been about advocacy, but, but advocacy while wearing a mask. It did NOT begin at Watergate.

The American Newspaper

The text is free - the audio book is also free. Every bit of it is in the public domain. The audio files are not all that long - it's a short and succinct work.

In particular, the first section (1) goes quite into detail about "the power of the press", but by no means is every bit of important information about the manipulative nature of journalists encapsulated in section 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Newspaper

[Gaffer]

Watergate was NOTHING compared to what Biden, Obama and the Clintons have done. NOTHING. They can scream Watergate all they want but real Americans know who’s ridin’ dirty. The worst thing about is those two putz reporters, Schlomo and the Shyster have been making book for decades off it with nothing but what I wouldn’t even call “hack” talent.

[South Dakota]

Let’s not forget John Dean’s role in this whole affair.
Dean was the one that sent the “ plumpers” into the Watergate.
Dean was worried he would be connected to Maureen Kane, a DNC hooker

[Mouton]

Bingo

[Mouton]

Bingo

[Right_Wing_Madman]

So was it CIA or was it Dean? And if it was the CIA, what were they after?

According to John O'Connor, Mark Felt's (Deep Throat) attorney, the CIA bugged Spencer Oliver's phone during the first Watergate break-in. Oliver was in charge of DNC "hospitality" operations, which included linking clients with a locale madam's service in DC.

According to Felt, who conducted the Watergate investigation for the FBI, the purpose of the second Watergate break-in, when the burglars were caught, was to bug the phone of Oliver's secretary. The CIA did this to build a dossier of DC politicians and officials, in the event that this information could be used against them later (a CIA practice that remains today).

Three of the four Cubans arrested at Watergate were involved in the CIA's invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. During their trials, two of the four Cubans admitted to working for the CIA during the Watergate break-in. At his sentencing, Watergate burglar, John McCord told the judge he was working for the CIA during the break-in.

Also, CIA Director James Schlesinger gave McCord's CIA file to Senator Howard Baker in 1973, which confirmed he was working for the CIA during the break-in. Baker disagreed with the findings of the Watergate commission and published his own minority report, which concluded the CIA directed and was involved in the Watergate break-in.

[x]

Thanks for the information. It does raise the question of why Nixon’s people felt bound to defend the burgulars, but I guess they had used the “plumbers” on other occasions and were afraid of that getting out. I always felt it unlikely that Hunt and McCord would take orders from John Dean.

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I always felt it unlikely that Hunt and McCord would take orders from John Dean.

Howard Baker asked Schlesinger for Howard Hunt's file, but Schlesinger declined, saying it was "too sensitive."

I think Schlesinger gave McCord's file to Baker because he wanted to clear the air on the CIA's role in Watergate. But 50 years later, most people still can't connect the dots.

[daler]

Nixon was a staunch anti-communist who won re-election in a landslide.

Trump was/is a highly successful political outsider who mocks powerful leftists and soundly defeated (and once threatened to jail) Hillary Clinton.

Both scenarios led to the vendetta we saw with Nixon and what we’re now seeing with Trump.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

As I recall after reading it thirty years ago, Silent Coup exposed John Dean as the architect of the break-in. His then girlfriend, now wife, was a DNC callgirl and he wanted to get rid of the evidence.

[kiryandil]

Thanks for this post!

I always deride "journalists" as "failed English majors", who weren't good enough at their native language to get a tenured English professorship. 

[Chainmail]

And you really, really need to read some books.

[Newtoidaho]

The compost and the slimes are both CIA fronts. Most “news” is simply cia-controlled propaganda.

[cowboyusa]

Read them. He expanded the great society,created the pernicious epa, took us off the gold standard, kissed the Deca Murder Mao’s ass. He was a very liberal. Would have voted for John G Schmidtz in 72, the JBS Canidate.

[logi_cal869]

Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the Woodward retirement villa when he reads this piece.

;-)

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the Woodward retirement villa when he reads this piece.

Bob Woodward has always been a tool, but I think he was partially disgusted how the editors at the Washington Post wouldn't let him publish all the information he knew about Watergate (it was the wrong narrative!). Woodward does refer to Howard Hunt and the CIA's role in his book and All the President's Men does mention the CIA's involvement in Watergate toward the end of the movie.

[logi_cal869]

He deserves to be disgraced.

It pleases me he’s not yet room temperature so as to suffer his fate.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

He deserves to be disgraced.

I agree.