Hardball (MSNBC) - 2005-06-01 - 1 of 2
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[0:00] and helping Oregon.
[0:02] >> Over 30 years after the crime, the case
[0:04] on Watergate is closed. Tonight, the
[0:07] executive editor of the Washington Post
[0:09] gives the inside story on the coming out
[0:11] of Deep Throat. Let's play hard ball.
[0:15] [music]
[0:25] Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews. Who
[0:26] knows what evil lurks in the hearts of
[0:28] men? knew. But why did it
[0:30] take nearly a third of a century for him
[0:32] to reveal his name? And what was it like
[0:34] in the newsroom of the Washington Post
[0:36] when he did? We'll talk to Len Dowy,
[0:38] executive editor of the Washington Post.
[0:40] And we'll hear from Henry Kissinger on
[0:41] Watergate and Deep Throat. Also debate
[0:44] the Amnesty International report that
[0:46] criticizes the US detainment camp in
[0:48] Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Plus, Bill Clinton
[0:50] as UN Secretary General as president of
[0:53] the world. We'll talk to the man who
[0:55] reports that that may be the former
[0:57] president's dream job right now. But
[0:59] first, we're joined by NBC chief foreign
[1:01] affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell,
[1:03] who was a Washington reporter during
[1:05] Watergate. Andrea, you spoke with Ben
[1:07] Bradley, the Washington Post editor who
[1:09] led the Watergate coverage. What was his
[1:11] reaction to coming out of the
[1:13] shadows?
[1:13] >> Well, he was glad that it did come out.
[1:15] He was glad that there was this
[1:17] revelation because it's a good thing.
[1:19] It's a good thing for journalism. It
[1:20] shows that the Washington Post kept the
[1:22] secret for more than three decades and
[1:24] that there are times when anonymous
[1:26] sources are really important, critical
[1:28] in fact to the unveiling of a story. It
[1:31] was a ve