"Reacast" is the key word.....there has been so much antipathy to the Felt coming out party, that they had to revamp the story angle.
Howard Fineman of Newsweak was just on MSNBC with Imus before 8am this Monday morning - June 6th, 2005.
Fineman claims that Deep Throat-Felt was tried for black-bag break-ins by the FBI.
But Howard Fineman stated this morning G. Mark Felt was aquitted.
I have read and heard - that F. Mark Felt was convicted of criminal felony for authorizing the FBI break-ins of anti-war groups like the Weatherman during the LBJ administration.
I have also heard that Mark Felt was later pardoned of his felony convictions by President Ronald Reagan.
Which story is correct?
Is Fineman lying, "misinformed/spinning" for the media, or telling the truth about X. Marx Felt actually being aquitted?
If Newsweak's Howard Fineman is lying about J. Mark Felt being aquitted - Why is he lying?
"Journalistic License" - as Woodward and Bernstein did in writing in the Washington Post about Watergate and Nixon and "Deep Throat"?
I do not pretend to be an expert on Watergate and Woodward & Bernstein - But I recall laughing last night at a scene from "All The President's Men" as Robert Redford/Bob Woodward placed a red flag in a potted plant on his balcony - to signal Deep Throat - yet that balcony was not visible from the street below.