Fake Watergate Heroes: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

The American Spectator ^ | May 13, 2022 | Geoff Shepard

[T Ruth]

This June 17 will mark 50 years since five burglars were caught red-handed in the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee. We will be regaled once again with laudatory tales of the two intrepid cub reporters, whose dogged investigative work thwarted a determined cover-up by President Richard Nixon and his henchmen.

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The truth behind a separate troubling event did not emerge until Jeff Himmelman’s book Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee was published in 2012. He tells the story of his discovery of a seven-page Bernstein memo in Bradlee’s files, detailing Bernstein’s highly improper interview with a Watergate grand juror. The duo had not only denied ever having conducted such interviews — for the prior four decades — but had falsely attributed information garnered from them as having come from a campaign secretary known only as “Z.” When confronted with undeniable proof of their subterfuge, Woodward threatened to ruin the author if the true story was ever revealed. Himmelman’s chapter “Z” is well worth reading, since it describes the highly ignoble conduct of two prominent media heroes.

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It was not until 2013 that this mysterious “other party” became known. That’s when Jaworski’s confidential Watergate files, the ones he’d improperly removed when leaving office in October 1974, first surfaced. They had been reclaimed by our National Archives and opened to the public in response to my FOIA request. As it turns out, Jaworski had been secretly meeting with Chief Judge John Sirica to work out issues in advance of the Watergate trials. Jaworski’s files contain allusions to at least a dozen such highly improper meetings, any revelation of which would have led to both Sirica and Jaworski being immediately removed from further Watergate involvement — and perhaps even disbarred.

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[pilipo]

The dems never forgave Nixon for his role in the exposure and conviction of Alger Hiss. Their dagger found its mark in Watergate.

[TnTnTn]

Politically motivated illegal leaking with a predetermined finding…not much has changed has it?….and b&w acted so almighty pious and virtuous…no better than the bunch in charge now…

[ChessExpert]

Thanks for the info.

[ChessExpert]

Thanks.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Remember that Bernstein’s parents were hardcore Communist Party members and he was proud of them for it. He says so in his book.

[hecticskeptic]

https://www.watergate.com/silent-coup

Excellent book by Len Colodny.... all about the coup d’état that eventually took Nixon out.

[nicollo]

Congratulations Woodward & Bernstein, your fake reporting led to the deaths of millions of Vietnamese and Cambodians.

Hope you sleep well tonight.

Meanwhile, MSM fake news on Trump has led to tens of thousands of deaths in Afghanistan and Ukraine and possibly far more in Taiwan.

Obama killed millions. Trump saved lives.

Tell it to your maker. He already knows.

[TigerClaws]

Well, they robbed Trump of a second term but they tried to ‘take him out’ by impeachment and that started BEFORE the election and before he even was sworn in.

[T Ruth]

Yes, Silent Coup is a good book.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Has anyone besides myself and a few people in the International Affairs arena heard the story about Kissinger jeopardizing the flight of six F-4s to Israel during the Yom Kippur War by not providing for aerial refueling or land-based fueling sites?

How do you say Tajon AF Base?

[jjotto]

Here’s one version of the story that includes references to the F4s:

https://www.commentary.org/articles/walter-laqueur/kissinger-the-yom-kippur-war/

[subterfuge]

True.

[Dr. Franklin]

Mark Felt was a bitter cork soaker for being passed over for head of the FBI.

Mark Felt may have been a source for Woodward and Bernstein, but he was not capable of knowing and leaking things happening in the White House. Woodward was a former naval intelligence officer who wound up working in the White House. He was known to have briefed Gen. Al Haig there. Haig is the most likely person to have been the "Deep Throat", and they all lied to cover up for him. Felt is just the patsy, named after he was senile and couldn't remember, let alone talk about, anything.

The question is qui bono? Who benefited from Watergate? Who benefited from removing V.P. Agnew? In the short term, the answer was Gerald Ford, who served as an unelected president for the remainder of Nixon's second term. In the long term, I think the answer is George H. W. Bush, who cleared out quite a few prominent Republicans ahead of him in his climb to win the presidency, and then engineer his son's tarnished election as well.

[minnesota_bound]

Yet these two keep missing all the crimes of the clintons, obama, biden etc. and everyone else connected to them. Like they purposely did so.

[NetAddicted]

Marking, so I can read. Yesterday, Woodward & Bernstein said cr*p about Trump. Glad the truth about those miscreants is coming out.