Woodward has smeared federal prosecutor Fitzgerald as a "junk yard prosecutor".

But is Woodward really a "Junk Yard Spy"??

Read details in of Bob Woodward's intelligence career before he became famous as the Watergate reported for the Washington Post.

Jim Hougan's [ also author of "Spooks"] excellent Watergate book "Secret Agenda" [1984, Random House] reveals [espec. at p. 293 - 301] :

1. The son of a Republican Judge and Yale graduate, Woodward served in the Navy as an intelligence officer under Admiral Robert Welander, and the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Thomas Moorer from @ 1968-1970. Adms. Welander and Moorer were investigated by Congress in @ 1974 for allegedly spying on the Nixon White House and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. This was at the time the White House was seeking rapprochement with the Soviet Union and China, about which many in the military, including , Adm. Moorer, had doubts.

2. As a naval intelligence officer, Woodward became acquainted with the elite "Old Boys" network of spies and "former" spies inside and outside of government, whom Woodward could use as sources when he later "retired" from the Navy in August 1970 and became a "reporter".

3. Although accepted into the prestigious Harvard Law School for the fall 1970 class, Woodward declined, in order to accept a "tryout" as a cub reporter for the Washington Post. Although he submitted 17 "stories", he was such a poor writer that all were rejected, and Woodward was let go after 2 weeks. Woodward had to be tutored at a suburban Virginia paper for about a year before finally landing his job at the Post, conveniently, just as the White House "Plumbers" [to plug leaks] unit was forming. It was this White House ad hoc "spy agency" that broke into the Watergate Democratic HDQ in June 1972, launching Woodward's rise to fame.

4. Author HOUGAN did not think, in 1984, that FELT was "Deep Throat", largely because "Throat" did not reveal to Woodward the CIA's "secret agenda" [hence the book's title] - a "honey trap" prostitution network being run, unbeknownst to either the Nixon White House or the Democrats, out of the very DNC office in the Watergate that Nixon's "Plumbers" were targeting. The 'trap' secretly filmed Democratic pols while in illicit trysts with whores through 2-way mirrors in an apartment near the Watergate, presumably to be used as extortion tapes. Hougan's main thesis is that 'retired' CIA agents/Watergate defendants E. Howard Hunt and James McCord, who ran the whore trap, deliberately sabotaged the Nixon team's attempted break-ins at the DNC [the infamous arrest on June 17, 1972 was the 5th attempt], in order to protect their own operation. [ Hougan' error about Felt, if it is one, may be because Felt may have just withheld this information from Woodward. If indeed he was "Throat", Felt may have been protecting the CIA's whore operation. Or Woodward could have himself suppressed news of the whore trap. ]

5. HOUGAN suggests, at p. 301, that "Deep Throat", whoever he was, could have been "carrying water" to Woodward for higher-ups, such as Adm. Moorer, and former CNO, Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, both of whom dissented from Nixon/Kissinger foreign policies. [Today's 'neo-cons' like Dick Cheny and Don Rumsfield would seem to be ideological equivalent of Moorer/Zumwalt.

Nixon/Kissinger could be more ideologically aligned with today's Ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame.]

Given Woodward's employment history with Adm. Moorer, he would have been a willing recipient of the Pentagon's "water" , and may have, in many ways, been his own "Deep Throat".

When former asst. FBI Director Mark Felt finally "revealed" himself as "Deep Throat" last summer, Woodward himself admitted he met Felt in @ 1970 at the Nixon White House while Woodward was delivering papers, probably to Kissinger's National Security office. Kissinger was the very person against whom the soon-to-be reporter 's then boss, Adm. Moorer, was suspected of spying against at the time.

If Woodward was a shill for right-of-Nixon [e.g. predecessor 'neo-con'] military-industrialists in 1972, could he be the same in 2005 for neo-cons against "pinko" CIA officers like Plame, and allies like Wilson, who dissented from the Bush-Cheney war policy. Hence, is Woodward again "carrying water" in attacking the Plame-gate investigation?

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Here's a link & "headline from Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now', hosted by Amy Goodman, Fri. Nov. 18, 2005:



>From: "Democracy Now!" digest-service@list.democracynow.org>

>Subject: DN!: Woodward Downplayed CIA Leak Case Despite Involvement