Dean's List

(Fox News) - John Dean — the Nixon White House counsel who testified against the president and his men during the Watergate scandal — has a few choice words for The New York Times. Last Sunday, the newspaper published a 1,600 word front-page story describing how Watergate historians have come — over the years — to entertain "rival visions" of Dean's role in the scandal, with some now seeing Dean as "a primary architect of the cover-up who saved himself by deflecting guilt."

In a posting on the Daily Beast Web site Wednesday that runs 2,600 words, Dean likens the Times to The National Enquirer and suggests the "paper of record" published the story because it is "still after all these decades smarting from... finding itself scooped by the Washington Post" on the Watergate story.

Dean was disbarred after pleading guilty over Watergate but still writes and speaks on legal issues for some media outlets. A Times spokesman told FOX News the paper stands by its story.