Woodward has a muddy history with a trail of allegations that he embellished the truth or otherwise misled his readers.
Woodward's former editor at the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, though publicly complimentary of Woodward, privately doubted some of the more dramatic elements of Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Watergate-era bestseller, "All The President's Men.".
"For four decades, Carl and Bob have insisted that the grand jurors they contacted had given them no information. For four decades, that story endured, as it was replayed in interviews and reread in library copies of All The President's Men, and as Woodward and Bernstein and Bradlee became a holy trinity of newspaper journalism," Himmelman wrote in a New York Magazine excerpt.
Former FBI agent Mark Felt took credit for being Deep Throat in 2005 but Gray, cross-referencing his father's FBI files and four of Woodward's notes on Deep Throat at the University of Texas, argued that some information Woodward attributed to Deep Throat couldn't plausibly have come from Felt.
"There is now convincing evidence that 'Deep Throat' was indeed a fabrication. Bob Woodward has provided it himself," Gray wrote in the book, a copy of which was reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Casey, as he lay dying in Georgetown University hospital, jerked up in bed and confessed to Woodward that he knew about the Reagan-era Iran-Contra deal, Woodward claimed.
"Kevin Shipp, who served in Casey's security detail at the hospital, wrote in 2010 that there were security guards at Casey's door 24/7, and nobody got past without their approval. Woodward tried to get in, but he was turned away, Shipp stated. Woodward disputes the 24/7 claim," Robberson noted.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/10/bob-woodward-accuracy-issues-watergate-trump/
Woodward's former editor at the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, though publicly complimentary of Woodward, privately doubted some of the more dramatic elements of Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Watergate-era bestseller, "All The President's Men.".
"For four decades, Carl and Bob have insisted that the grand jurors they contacted had given them no information. For four decades, that story endured, as it was replayed in interviews and reread in library copies of All The President's Men, and as Woodward and Bernstein and Bradlee became a holy trinity of newspaper journalism," Himmelman wrote in a New York Magazine excerpt.
Former FBI agent Mark Felt took credit for being Deep Throat in 2005 but Gray, cross-referencing his father's FBI files and four of Woodward's notes on Deep Throat at the University of Texas, argued that some information Woodward attributed to Deep Throat couldn't plausibly have come from Felt.
"There is now convincing evidence that 'Deep Throat' was indeed a fabrication. Bob Woodward has provided it himself," Gray wrote in the book, a copy of which was reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Casey, as he lay dying in Georgetown University hospital, jerked up in bed and confessed to Woodward that he knew about the Reagan-era Iran-Contra deal, Woodward claimed.
"Kevin Shipp, who served in Casey's security detail at the hospital, wrote in 2010 that there were security guards at Casey's door 24/7, and nobody got past without their approval. Woodward tried to get in, but he was turned away, Shipp stated. Woodward disputes the 24/7 claim," Robberson noted.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/10/bob-woodward-accuracy-issues-watergate-trump/
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