Despite Coming O'Donnell Retraction, I Still Think It's True

[dawg day]

17. There's a famous "mistake" made by Woodward and Bernstein

You can see it in their film All the President's Men. Bernstein said later:
"We had the story right, the substance of it. What we had wrong was the attribution. It had never come before the grand jury. It was the substance that was really important — at the same time, we had not been diligent in nailing this down, this one aspect of it." (It was about Haldeman being at the center of the crooked operations... he was, but it hadn't come out in the grand jury at that point.)

I was thinking of that-- O'Donnell might be saying not that it's false, but that he should have gotten more attribution before he reported it.