Bob Woodward And Carl Bernstein Mark Watergate’s 50th Anniversary With Comparisons Of Nixon’s Subversion To Trump’s Sedition

deadline.com:

The 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in is today, the “third rate burglary” that ultimately brought down a presidency, and all this week Washington, D.C.

has been in a bit of nostalgic mode.At the DC/DOX Festival, producer Debra McClutchy and director Anne Alvergue screened their new Netflix documentary The Martha Mitchell Effect, focusing on the life of the celebrity Nixon-era figure whose importance in blowing the whistle on the scandal has only recently gotten its due.

At the National Portrait Gallery, there’s an exhibition of key portraiture and illustration from the scandal.But it’s nearly impossible to flashback without comparing the scandal to what’s going on now, via the January 6th Committee hearings, and what may be ahead, as a conservative judge warned on Thursday of the ongoing “clear and present danger” to democracy.On Friday, The Washington Post gathered Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, immortalized in the movie All the President’s Men, based on their book, for a Post Live session with chief correspondent Dan Balz.Not surprisingly, the attention turned to the January 6th Committee hearings and whether they have shown evidence of a crime.Woodward said that the material that the committee has presented has been “amazing.”“It is a crime to subvert a legitimate function of government,” he said. “According to 18 USC 371, Supreme Court decisions going back 100 years, this is a clear lay down case of obstructing an essential and necessary function of government.

And what’s more necessary than certifying who is the next president? The diabolical genius of Trump and his associates in this, they found the weak point in the system.