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Max Holland

Max Holland, a contributing editor at The Nation and the Wilson Quarterly, is the author of Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat.

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TRACK RECORD

The FBI’s Culture of Impunity Didn’t Start With Donald Trump

While the FBI is no longer quite the insular and impervious bureaucracy it was under Hoover, the DNA is still there.

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From Russia, With Love

How the KGB Duped Oliver Stone

Many Americans believe that JFK was assassinated as the result of some sort of conspiracy, perhaps even by the CIA—the direct result of a KGB influence operation.

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Literary License?

Watergate: The Director’s Cut

<p>Ben Bradlee isn’t the only one raising questions about <i>All the President’s Men</i>. Max Holland probes director Alan Pakula’s papers and finds more evidence of literary license. Plus, Howard Kurtz on the <a href="/content/dailybeast/articles/2012/06/11/watergate-remembered-four-decades-later-at-washington-post-party.html">lessons of Watergate</a>.<br> </p>

Max Holland

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All the President’s Editors

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