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Finally in the public sector, we have of course the free press--a very major assist to the public in its effort to hold the American intelligence community accountable. People like Woodward and Bernstein and others have, of course, performed yeoman service in helping the public keep track of governmental activities. There are, however, potential problems here. When something is made known to the press, it is also made known to a potential enemy. And unlike a court, the press can find you or me guilty through accusation alone...
...happen in our era of sequels: Deep Throat II. This time, he is a mysterious figure-or figures-leaking information about the U.S. Supreme Court. Who is the reporter scribbling down the incriminating details? Naturally, Bob Woodward, co-author with Carl Bernstein of The Final Days. Woodward and his new partner, fellow Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong, are behind locked doors, working on a book about the Warren Burger Court. Excerpts will appear early next year, and anticipation at the Post is high. Says one editor: "The Supreme Court is the last secret institution in Washington...
...Douglas explained, Sollas was a pillar of British science in the early 1900s, but his position was being increasingly challenged by a rising young star in anthropology, Arthur Smith Woodward. Indeed, at one scientific meeting of the Geological Society, Smith Woodward actually derided a presentation made by the older man. Recalled Douglas, who was present at that almost forgotten confrontation: "Sollas said nothing at all', but I could see he was absolutely livid...
Sollas apparently decided to strike back by playing on Smith Woodward's credulity; he showed a tendency to accept purported new scientific findings as fact before they were rigorously proved. The ploy worked. Shortly after the planted Piltdown remains were found, Smith Woodward enthusiastically staked his reputation on the authenticity of the find. In fact, in a painting that still hangs in the Geological Society's London headquarters, Smith Woodward is one of several eminent scientists shown intensively examining the supposedly precious skull. What is more, he is pictured right next to its "discoverer," an amateur fossil hunter...
...There is] a ring around the collar on his white robes of virtue. It won't wash," wrote Conservative Columnist James J. Kilpatrick. "The dollar sign has risen to taint [Farber's] martyrdom," wrote Charles B. Seib, ombudsman of the Washington Post-the paper whose Watergate reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, have made more money from investigative reporting converted into books than any other journalists in history. FARBER CASE DULLS THE EDGE OF THE PRESS'S SILVER SWORD ran the headline in the Post over a column by a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter, Haynes Johnson. Now it was Rosenthal...