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Cliff Kincaid, serves as editor of the Accuracy
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appeared on the Fox News programs Hannity & Colmes and
The O'Reilly Factor, where he debated O'Reilly on global
warming, the death penalty,
and the homosexual agenda. He was a guest co-host on CNN's Crossfire
(filling in for Pat Buchanan) in the 1980s, where he confronted
the then-Libyan Ambassador to the U.N. with evidence of Libyan
involvement in international terrorism. Through his America's
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an advocate on behalf of the families of victims of terrorism
and has published reports and held conferences critical of the
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other publications. He served on the staff of Human Events for
several years and was an editorial writer and newsletter editor
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his Freedom Alliance educational foundation. He has written or
co-authored nine books on media and cultural affairs and foreign
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Kincaid index]
 The
Other Watergate Conspiracy
The Deep Throat story doesn't add up...
[Cliff Kincaid] 6/20/05
One of the
main culprits of the Watergate scandal, John Dean, who spent
4 months in prison, surfaced as a media
hero. He has
also surfaced as an expert on the alleged scandalous behavior
of the Bush Administration. He wrote the book, Worse Than
Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. But the facts, which
have survived several challenges in court, indicate that Dean
had a much bigger role in Watergate than reported by Woodward
and Bernstein. The book Silent Coup argues that the
Watergate break-ins were really meant to cover up embarrassing
information
about a call-girl ring whose “Madame” was a roommate
of John Dean’s wife, and that John Dean ordered the break-ins.
Watergate, as Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy maintains, was “a
Dean Operation.”
To the credit
of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, he had Liddy
on his June 1 show to comment on the naming of Mark Felt as Deep
Throat. Liddy said it didn’t add up. Liddy explained, “One,
Woodward wrote about how Deep Throat, he had a long friendship
with Deep Throat. There‘s no evidence that he ever had
any kind of friendship with Mark Felt. Secondly, why would the
number two man at the FBI choose to confide in a young metro
reporter for The Washington Post who had only been
there for nine months? Three, Deep Throat is given credit by
Woodward with the story of the destruction of the tape. How would
Mark Felt have known about that? On the other side of the coin,
Mark Felt would have known about the FBI’s investigation
into the call girl ring that was being run out of the Columbia
Plaza apartment. And that, of course, was the connection and
that is what was being spied upon. Why wouldn’t he have
told Woodward and why wouldn’t Woodward have reported it?”
Liddy went
on to say, “I was recruited
for the operation by John Dean. As a matter of fact, when I
sent my material forward,
you know, the get from the wiretaps, I gave it to Mitchell, whom
I was told was supposed to be getting it. And it would come back
to me with notations on it and the initials J.D., for John Dean.”
Alluding
to how the Silent Coup version of Watergate has been shunted
aside or dismissed by the major media, Liddy
told Matthews: “…they
have got it all wrong in the history books as to what was going
on and why.” The media version of events is the one told
by Dean—that the Watergate break-ins were designed to gather
political intelligence on the Democrats.
History Professor
Joan Hoff adds her voice to this debate, saying, “Why
do mainstream journalists and scholars continue to insist that
the desire for political intelligence produced the Watergate
break-ins on May 28 and June 17, 1972? FBI evidence has long
existed showing that the office of the head of the DNC, Larry
O'Brien, which should have been the logical target of a political
espionage operation, had not been the target of either break-in.
Instead, the burglars concentrated both times on the office of
R. Spencer Oliver, the national president of the Young Democrats
and executive director of the State Democratic Chairmen, and
of his secretary Ida Maxwell (“Maxie”) Wells. While
Oliver was seldom at DNC headquarters, Wells worked every day
there.
"One of the
burglars, Eugenio Rolando Martinez, had a key to Wells’s
desk, but when Liddy announced on his radio program some 20
years later that her desk was the target because
it contained information about a prostitution ring supposedly
operating out of the DNC, she unsuccessfully sued him for defamation
in Federal District Court…A judge in one decision cited
material from the 1991 book, Silent Coup: The Removal of
a President by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin
saying that there was credible evidence backing Liddy’s
statements about call girl arrangements being made over her phone.
Then, of course, there was the key
to her desk, which after being photographed as evidence, had
been ‘lost’ by the FBI.”
The Post has said that, “… we do know what happened
at Watergate—and it had nothing to do with prostitutes.” The
paper called the Silent Coup and Liddy versions of Watergate
a “conspiracy theory.” Of course, Watergate was a
conspiracy, too.
The Post has its own version of Watergate, one that now fingers former
FBI official Mark Felt as Deep Throat.
But one person
who could verify that story, Mark Felt, can’t speak for
himself because of a stroke and dementia. All he can say is that
he wants to make a lot of money.
Tragically,
the conservative bloggers who have done so much to keep the
Big Media honest on so many issues
have failed to
challenge the conventional wisdom about Watergate and Deep Throat.
My associate Sherrie Gossett surveyed a number of them, including
Little Green Footbals, Instapundit, Powerline, PowerPundit, and
OutsideTheBeltway, and could find nothing challenging the “Mark
Felt is Deep Throat” story line. tRO
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2005 Accuracy in Media
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