The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

— Plato         

Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Colodny & Gettlin: Silent Coup

Two Boner image: This is a work that breaks new ground, and quite possibly forced changes in the way the government either does business, or hides it.

Colodny, Len and Gettlin, Robert (1992) Silent Coup: The Removal of a President. New York: St.Martin's, 580 pp.
Silent Coup

According to NameBase:

This bestseller is a revisionist account of Watergate that Bob Woodward and the Washington Post don't want you to read. It makes the case that Alexander Haig was Deep Throat, and reports convincing evidence (including taped interviews with officials) that Bob Woodward knew Haig in 1969 when Woodward worked at the Pentagon, four years before Woodward said they met. The paperback edition includes a 24-page postscript that details Woodward's and the Post's pathetic attempts to discredit the evidence. Most reviews of this book gave Colodny and Gettlin above-average marks, and the consensus among journalists seems to be that the burden of proof rests with the Post.

The other major revisionist wrinkle is the authors' contention that John Dean ordered the Watergate break-in because he knew that a call-girl ring was operating out of the Democratic headquarters and wanted some embarrassing documents. The woman who ran the ring was reportedly a friend of Dean's, and Maureen Biner Dean was her roommate when John and Mo were courting in 1971. Stay tuned: John and Maureen are suing the authors, along with G. Gordon Liddy, who agrees with the book, for $50 million. When he first heard of the suit on 1992-01-30, Liddy said it was "the second happiest day of my life. The first happiest will be when we finally get John Dean on the witness stand under oath. No more perjury-infested dog and pony show."

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