Happily, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are still around. But they’re older now, as we all are . . . no longer the two young, eager, junior investigative journalists who worked for the Washington Post in the 1970s.

And more’s the pity.

Because this country has never been more desperately in need of the sort of fearless investigation and reporting we saw from the likes of that pair when they exposed the break-in at Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972 — 53 years ago yesterday.

Their subsequent reporting, followed by their 1974 book titled “All the President’s Men”, broke open a web of corruption, lies and cover-ups that led to the downfall of the Nixon administration . . . proving to the world that in the United States, no one — not even the President himself — was above the law.

But that was then, when the media, the courts and Congress were free to do their jobs without fear of intervention, threats, or retribution.

And this is now, when . . .

Oh, well . . . what more can I add?

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
6/18/25