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Tuesday, June 14, 2005
(NOT) INVESTIGATING HIMSELF.
David Corn and Jeff Goldberg have a
fascinating piece on the
Nation's website about a heretofore unknown bit of lore about
Deep Throat: at one point, as the Watergate scandal was unraveling,
Mark Felt was put in charge of finding out who was leaking to the
Washington Post. Well, now.
Check out this memo, quoted by Corn
and Goldberg, that Felt wrote to a subordinate:
As you know, Woodward and
Bernstein have written numerous articles about Watergate. While
their stories have contained much fiction and half truths, they
have frequently set forth information which they attribute to
Federal investigators, Department of Justice sources, and FBI
sources. We know that they were playing games with the case agent
in the Washington Field Office trying to trick him into giving
them bits of information. On balance and despite the fiction,
there is no question that they have access to sources either in
the FBI or in the Department of Justice.
This is smoke-blowing of the
highest order. No wonder Felt's secret stayed safe for more than
three decades.
ARTS ONLINE. Joel Brown,
formerly the chief arts editor at the Boston Herald, has put
together a terrific new resource: HubArts.com,
which he bills as "One-stop shopping for news & comment on Boston
arts and culture."
Brown combines original content
with bloggier fare linking to other news sites (especially the
Herald's, but plenty of others as well). He's got links to a
bunch of Boston-area arts organizations. And the layout is clean and
attractive. What more do you want?
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Reassuring to see good people take their act to different venues. Those with something worthwhile to say will be just fine. Change is good. (Remember when the death of the Evening Globe was the End of Civilization?)
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