Reply #8: The other journalists didn't believe it because Woodward only had....

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...a year and a half in the newspaper business, and only six months at the Post, when he began breaking the Watergate story.

Maybe some of the other reporters at the Post also had some reservations about Woodward's background in the military. He was, after all, a former Naval officer with a "crypto" clearance who had last worked in the Pentagon as a briefing officer to General Al Haig and other senior officers.

And Woodward had the kind of background that th intelligence world liked...Yale grad, Navy ROTC, and a member of a secret society.

Maybe they didn't believe that Woodward had really left the military and was instead working as an intelligence asset. A lot of that stuff was happening back then.

IMHO, in Woodward's case it was true.