Woodward claimed to have gotten a sensational deathbed confession out of Ronald Reagan‘s CIA director William Casey. John Cassidy exposes the details in a New Yorker story. People close to Casey, at the time, said he couldn’t even speak, much less jerk his head up. They said details of Woodward’s account, such as the positioning of Casey’s hospital bed, did not even remotely match Woodward’s description. Casey’s daughter said the encounter never happened. Kevin Shipp, who served in Casey’s security detail at the hospital, wrote in 2010 that there were security guards at Casey’s door 24/7, and nobody got past without their approval. Also, William Casey’s wife went on record and said the following…
‘he’s lying about that… That is untrue, it’s a lie… Woodward never got in to see my husband… This whole thing is a fabrication.’
L.A.Times--In a 1996 essay for the New York Review of Books, Joan Didion Wrote That…