Recently, this article in the Atlantic cast doubt on the reporting of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover up.

Well, that duo has penned a response.

The short version: ‘Are people seriously giving credence to the idea that Nixon wasn’t a corrupt criminal?’

Longer version: ‘When we wrote our most celebrated pieces, we did not have all the facts and certainly made some mistakes, but there’s little doubt that series of crimes against the Constitution, the law, and our Democracy were committed at the direct orders of President Nixon, so take your Atlantic piece and  shove it.’