Exploding the Watergate Myth
A new book shows that Woodward and Bernstein lied. And lied. And lied.
…And what were the Post’s purposes? Well, it soon became clear to Woodstein that the Watergate break-in had been a CIA operation for which Hunt, because he was a White House official, had been able to claim presidential authorization. Yet the Post - which, as O’Connor notes, was founded in 1877 as “the official organ of the Democratic Party” and which in the 1970s, believe it or not, shared a general counsel (Joseph Califano) with the DNC - didn’t want to bring down the CIA. It wanted to bring down Nixon. And after learning that the CIA’s motive for the break-in had to do not with political secrets but with a prostitution referral service that was operating out of DNC headquarters, the Post wanted to protect Democrats.
Why, then, did Nixon pursue the ultimately self-destructive cover-up? Because John Dean - the White House counsel who, unbeknownst to Nixon, had had his own personal reasons for wanting theDNC’s prostitution records- urged Nixon to do so, never informing him that what he was covering up was, in fact, a CIA project. As O’Connor observes, if Nixon hadn’t pursued the cover-up, the truth about the break-in might actually have come out, and Nixon would’ve been seen not as its mastermind but as an innocent fall guy.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/exploding-watergate-myth-bruce-bawer/
Very good article. I only included a small portion of it.
For those thinking nothing is happening, ask why is Watergate back in the news? I believe it will add context to the organized effort of the intelligence community to take down POTUS just like they did Nixon. They hated Nixon just as much as they did Kennedy and POTUS.