Check out "Deep Throat" doing his lame a$$ "Jelly" Bryce imitation.
We really need a book to tell us this?
What is that on that tie...... the symbol for "Beats The Patriot Act"?
;-)
Peace and love, man.
/Sarcasm
Some see this as another black eye for the FBI. There was the Katrina Leung/James J. Smith affair and treason case; the Weaver sniper; former agent Justin Haberski; and Robert Hanssen, who after being found guilty should have been given the death penalty but instead was awarded a pension.
The FBI needs far more extensive checks of the character of its employees. As for Felt, according to one report, our government announced - even before all evidence was in - that no charges will be filed against him.
Reality check: Bill Clinton's "My Lies" only SCANNED about 450,000 copies. (I know, they said it "sold" millions---but those are actually SHIPMENTS to book stores and many will be heavily discounted or returned. The only number that counts is the SCANS.)
Check out "Deep Throat" doing his lame a$$ "Jelly" Bryce imitation.
Have you seen this from the NY Post: -
Agent David Kuhn and author/lawyer John D. O'Connor — in their meetings with publishers —
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Judith Regan, the head of Regan Books, knew the identity of Deep Throat and had had extensive dealings with O'Connor and the family nearly two years ago, sources said.
She backed away from a book for a number of reasons, including some doubts on whether she could sufficiently document his claims, given his declining health and memory, sources said.
^^^^^^
Looks like O'Connor has been shopping Felt's story for several years. Questions about the timing of the Vanity Fair story become even more pertinent, if this family have had an agent and a lawyer working on it for at least two years.
I tried to read linked article to the NYPost --didn't want to register, went to bugmenot, and got a page that indicated it didn't exist.
Feltgate
This is exactly why I believe in today's day and age there would be no Deep Throat. That is because people are not able to keep a secret anymore out of the allure of the attention, book deals and fame they will receive if they choose to go public with what they know.
Regardless of whether you think Deep Throat is a hero or a traitor, one thing is for sure Mark Felt shared the information because he felt it was his duty as a citizen. One could only hypothesize if there was a scandal this large today, Deep Thraot might have saved the information for himself to write his own book, so he could get the glory of publicizing the information and bringing the President down.
Even today people are trying to get rich off of Deep Throat. Why do we need to know and why it is any of our business that Deep Throat was estranged from his daughter. Who really cares? I certainly don't.
I have excerpted the following from an article in the Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Ca..
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050605/NEWS/506050303
Felt, who has lived with her father in a two-story home in northwest Santa Rosa for the past 13 years, said her 91-year-old father deserved to be released from the secret he had held so long.
"I think it's so important for a person getting into elder years, when death is somewhere around the corner, to be unburdened," Felt said. "At that time of your life, you (shouldn't) be holding up appearances or have something troubling your heart and have to keep it a secret."
Her comments came two days after a media frenzy that included reporters and camera crews camped on her front lawn. Joan Felt, 61, took a quiet moment in her car on the way home from Rohnert Park for an exclusive cell phone interview with The Press Democrat.
While she wouldn't talk about her father's decision to go public, and while the family has refused to make him available for interviews, she was frank about her own motives.
"There were many reasons why we decided to do it. I won't deny that to make money is one of them," Felt said. "My son, Nick, is in law school and he'll owe $100,000 by the time he graduates. I'm still a single mom, still supporting them to one degree or another, and I am not ashamed of this," Felt said.
In the past week, Washington Post Editor Bob Woodward, who closely guarded Felt's identity as the source in many of the key Watergate stories, as well as his partner Carl Bernstein and former Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, has each publicly questioned Mark Felt's competency and his ability to withstand family pressure to reveal the secret.
Joan Felt said she understands the concern, but the news articles portraying her father as mentally incapacitated are simply wrong. She confirmed that her father has struggled. He suffered a stroke in 2001 and has had a series of surgeries to battle heart problems and repair a broken hip.
Mental capacity defended
"His health is frail, yes, but he's very present and cogent and capable of making decisions," she said.
If the family is successful in reaching a book deal, which some agents have said could be worth more than $1 million, they would be in good company. Woodward and Bernstein wrote a best-selling book on the Watergate scandal, "All the President's Men," which was made into a movie. And Woodward's publisher is rushing into print a book on Mark Felt, "The Secret Man," due out in July.
The story of the unmasking of Deep Throat is inseparable from the story of the Felt family, from a father and daughter estranged following the social revolution of the 1960s to the eventual reconciliation that last week brought the world to a Santa Rosa doorstep.
Mark Felt's formative years were spent in modest circumstances in post-World War I Idaho. He worked his way through the University of Idaho and George Washington University law school. He waited tables, stoked furnaces and worked for an Idaho senator as a clerk.
Fellow University of Idaho student Audrey Robinson caught his eye and the two were married in 1938 by the House chaplain, ready to begin their life in Washington, D.C., together.
Drawn to the FBI in 1942, Felt developed a deep and unwavering commitment to the Bureau that would shape the rest of his life.
"I am willing to stake my loyalty and dedication to my country against that of anyone," he wrote in his memoir, penned in 1979.
While he was wrestling with Watergate, his daughter Joan was raising a family. She gave birth to three children after embracing a counterculture lifestyle that did not include marriage. As Nixon was winning a landslide election in 1972, she was stepping away from an elite education that included two language degrees from Stanford University and traveling to Chile on a Fulbright scholarship to study Spanish.
Her father strongly disapproved, straining their relationship. With the birth of her first child in 1974, Joan Felt became the breadwinner of her young family, working a variety of low-paying jobs and living in small rentals in Guerneville and Santa Rosa.
Around the time of the birth of her youngest son, Nick, she and her father began rebuilding their relationship. Mark and Audrey Felt made trips from Alexandria, Va., to visit the family in Sonoma County.
Audrey Felt's death in 1984 would bring father and daughter even closer, and he made the annual trips to Santa Rosa alone, staying at the Flamingo Hotel.
"When my mother died, my father decided to move out here. My dad has always been the most supportive and beyond-the-call-of-duty father," Joan Felt said.
In 1990, at age 77, the former FBI man severed the last of his Washington ties and moved to Santa Rosa. He rented an apartment for a time, and in 1992 purchased a split-level, five-bedroom home on Redford Place for about $200,000. The lower part of the split-level was remodeled into an apartment for him, with a bedroom-living room, kitchenette and bathroom.
House bought for family
"Dad bought the house for us because I was a single mom. I've been the breadwinner, and I was living in this little, tiny two-bedroom duplex with these three kids," Joan Felt said.
The family settled in -- Mark Felt, Joan Felt and the boys -- Will Felt, then 18; Robbie Jones, then 13; and Nick Jones, then 11. Joan Felt began teaching Spanish at Sonoma State University and at Santa Rosa Junior College.