Ep. 33: Watergate Journalism, The Seeds of Our Discontent

Ep. 33: Watergate Journalism, The Seeds of Our Discontent

Clearly the full and correct Watergate story was not reported by the Washington Post. Often a journalist simply gets a story wrong while acting in good faith. But if the Post was willfully deceitful in its Watergate reporting, not simply negligent, then the entire modern project of slashing “investigative” journalism is built on fraud. Is today’s partisan journalism based on a “proof of concept” that was obtained by fraud? If so, our country has been divided horribly by the Washington P...

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Ep. 34: Watergate Journalism's Bitter Harvest

Ep. 34: Watergate Journalism's Bitter Harvest

Prior episodes have shown that the Nixon Presidency, churlishly cynical though it may have been, was the victim of deceitful journalism by the Washington Post which cast it far more villainously than ...

9 Loka 202124min

Ep. 32: A Lid on Liddy

Ep. 32: A Lid on Liddy

G. Gordon Liddy, a lawyer, former FBI agent and chief operative in the White House Plumbers unit at the time, was a central focus for Watergate activity, even though he is correctly, and admittedly, ...

24 Syys 202130min

Ep. 31: Baking Baker

Ep. 31: Baking Baker

As impeachment was closing in on President Nixon, the CIA could, it seemed breathe a sigh of relief, as it had skillfully and luckily, with the unstinting help of the Washington Post, navigated rocky ...

17 Syys 202139min

Ep. 30: Stranger Danger, Hiding Stevens and Russell

Ep. 30: Stranger Danger, Hiding Stevens and Russell

As of late March 1973, it looked like all the pieces were falling in place for the CIA to avoid exposure of its role in the Watergate scandal and to hide the salacious information actually targeted. ...

10 Syys 202126min

Ep. 29: Misrepresenting McCord's Misconduct

Ep. 29: Misrepresenting McCord's Misconduct

James McCord is a highly intriguing character, if an opaque one. As we described earlier, John Mitchell had wanted a personal security officer, but Alfred Wong of the Secret Service, with thousands o...

3 Syys 202125min

Ep. 28: Blacking Out Blackmail

Ep. 28: Blacking Out Blackmail

If the Washington Post was not intentionally covering up the “CIA defense” which we discussed in the last episode, it would blare a headline about it when it was later documented that Howard Hunt, the...

27 Elo 202123min

Ep. 27: Covering Up the CIA Defense

Ep. 27: Covering Up the CIA Defense

In a trial of profound public significance, it is particularly important that the media informing the public of the prosecution cover all impactful claims and defenses. In the first of two episodes on...

20 Elo 202120min

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