Felt, Mythmaker

Here’s an interesting take on the Felt affair from PowerLine. It really bursts the bubble on the claim that the press is the defender of the Republic. If Felt hadn’t been mad because he didn’t get to replace J. Edgar Hoover, Woodward and Bernstein wouldn’t have been able to create the myth that makes the press so self-righteous.

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Mackubin Thomas Owens

Mackubin Thomas Owens is a senior national security fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute , editing its journal Orbis from 2008 to 2020. A Marine Corps infantry veteran of the Vietnam War, he was a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College from 1987 to 2015. He is the author of US Civil–Military Relations after 9/11: Renegotiating the Civil-Military Bargain.

Felt, Mythmaker

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