The Washington Post Pushes False History to Cover Up Its False Journalism

American Greatness ^ | July 21, 2022 | John D. O'Connor

[T Ruth]

. . . Do we need still another Watergate book?”

*** The Post also credits Graff’s “prodigious research,” while echoing his conclusion that “we’ll never know the full truth of Watergate” ...

If observations like these are used to justify a new 679-page history, one may ask, why bother? Why read a book that throws up its hands and says, “Who knows?

One answer comes in Graff’s treatment of two seminal revisionist works, Jim Hougan’s 1984 Secret Agenda and Len Colodny’s 1991 Silent Coup. These two works, in fact, solve quite convincingly many of the mysteries Graff contends are still shrouded.

For instance, Hougan’s masterful outing of the CIA’s infiltration of the White House and specifying the targeted bordello of the pseudonymous “Tess,” provide satisfying answers. Silent Coup follows up on Secret Agenda, and exposes “Tess” as bordello madame Cathy Dieter, which has profound implications. More to the point, Colodny makes a powerful case of the centrality of White House Counsel John Dean as a promoter of the break-in, as well as a conflicted counsel who sucked his superiors into an idiotic coverup through advice that was less than candid.

And Mark Felt’s own writings explain well that his pro-FBI motivation was to keep the investigation free of “whitewash,” as he urged his boss Patrick Gray in their first post-arrest meeting. So, in answer to Graff, there, in fact, are a number of solid answers to the “mysteries” he (and the Post) wish to keep in the realm of unsolved questions.

After all, if the facts uncovered by Hougan and Colodny were available to the Post during the scandal then maybe, just maybe, the Post may have covered up more than it uncovered on its way to a Pulitzer Prize.

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[T Ruth]

Much important information about Watergate has been unearthed by Geoff Sheppard. Here is a link to his website: Shepard on Watergate. Especially worth reading is the set of documents which Sheppard recently filed with the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

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