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 Okt 202124min
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 Sep 202130min
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 Sep 202139min
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 Sep 202126min
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 Sep 202125min
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 Aug 202123min
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 Aug 202120min
