New Film and New Book Places Richard Nixon in the News Again.

It may hint strongly at what the American people feel. Something is terribly wrong in Washington. It could be much more than just a movie. Hundreds of millions of American viewers will learn for the first time of the national trauma that was “Watergate,” others will relive it when the new film about the historic confrontation between Richard Nixon and interviewer David Frost opens later this month. Other will find why things are terribly wrong in Washington in the new book Homeland Insecurity.

And there is another story in the just-released book. It is the story behind the story of the film and the film itself. It is the story about what made Watergate happen and it is a collection of stories too about less well known events that laid the groundwork for the surging swell of anger towards Washington politicians today.

Co-Author Dr. Kathleen Puckett, a former FBI clinical psychologist examines the psychological make-up of the Watergate activists and fourteen others in the following decades who thought they were special and took actions to protect their power platforms laying the groundwork for the anger rising against them today. In Homeland Insecurity she pours a sharp beam of light into the dark thinking of the power-obsessed illuminating how it has impacted on civil liberties, national security,  trust and good faith in the entrenched leadership in Washington

 Co-author Terry Turchie, former FBI counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence expert, connects the dots from Nixon to the present, demonstrating to the reader, how fourteen Washington politicians, who thought they were special, strived selfishly to protect their platforms of power at the expense of national security and civil liberties while laying the groundwork of mistrust so prevalent today. It is an alarming illustration of the first crack that took place in the nation’s security window that sent a spider web creeping across the transparent pane of law that is the lone safeguard against the encroachment of civil liberties.

 Authors Terry Turchie and Dr. Kathleen Puckett focus on fourteen Washington politicians who have added to the shattering of the transparency  of law that started with Richard Nixon who said  in his famous interview with David Frost, “When the President does it, its not illegal”

And that’s the nub of Homeland Insecurity. The fourteen Washington politicians profiled in Homeland Insecurity believed they were special and above the law, and what they did could not be wrong. Through the forty years following Richard Nixon they managed to do things just like the ex-president while remaining in relative obscurity.

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