'Deep Throat' Saw Himself As 'Lone Ranger'

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[brivette]

L.Patrick Grey was my attorney in an action that I and my Navy cohorts brought against the Congress back in the seventies. We won, btw.

[MamaLucci]

That's funny, many people saw him as the back end of Silver. ;_

[Joe 6-pack]

This member of the Village People consider himself to be both 'deep throat' and 'the lone (rump) ranger.' Talk about being all things to all people....

[davisfh]

"...was a whistleblower... Wasn't that Monica's codename?"

A rooty-toot-toot and a rummy-tum-tum...

[Calvin Locke]

Whistleblower? He undermined the DOJ investigation that was going on at the time. From what I remember, DOJ people
resigned, rather than knuckle under to the Nixon Administration attempts to whitewash it.

Look at the DOJ now. Whitewaters, um, whitewashes everything: illegal aliens, theft from the National Archives, missing FBI files, ...

Coincidence? I think not.

Thank you, Mark Felt.

[tacticalogic]

I'm still trying to figure out what Nixon hoped to gain out of that burglary that he thought was worth risking his administration for.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

From the archives: Another suggestion has been that Tonto, (whose name means "stupid" according to some interpretations) responded by calling the Lone Ranger "qui no sabe" which roughly translates from Spanish as "he who knows nothing" or "clueless."

[capydick]

I'm still trying to figure out what Nixon hoped to gain out of that burglary that he thought was worth risking his administration for.

Especially since the election was his to lose. I seem to remember that rumors of Fidel Castro funding the DNC (not totally unbelievable!) may have had something to do with it.

[PeaRidge]

There has been much speculation about that. Just as in any complicated series of events during an election season, all sorts of motivations and characters appear. It is likely that Nixon did not know of the burglary and cover-up until well after the process began.

Nixon was at war with the Democrats. He would do anything to protect his people.

He was also fighting a war in SE Asia. At home the opposition was leaking information about the war and giving out confidential and secret information to the press.

If his people could get anything out of Lawrence O'Brien's office on illegal contributions, that would help.

There is one story that bounces around about Mo Dean's ties to prostitutes being documented at the office. Some suggest that John Dean wanted that information to cease to exist.

The men that were caught were all on the CIA payroll at one time or another. There were many in the CIA that did not support Nixon. If one rules out the far out possibility that they got themselves arrested purposefully by someone close to Nixon who would then send money and thereby implicate the slush fund and Nixon himself, one must simply say that it was a war and Nixon was saving his men.

But I do not think "Deepthroat" had that much relevancy with regard to tangible evidence that would cause Nixon to be impeached.

[RetSignman]

I hope I haven't become so skepical to believe that the appearence of this old senile f@rt, at this time, is orchestrated to coincide with firing of McCarthy.

Dare I say, that the MSM are going to start comparing the two?

[Publius6961]

'Deep Throat' Saw Himself As 'Lone Ranger'"

Lots of criminals do.
I happen not to agree with him and wonder why he's not in jail.

[geopyg]

"There is one story that bounces around about Mo Dean's ties to prostitutes being documented at the office. Some suggest that John Dean wanted that information to cease to exist."

Read "Silent Coup". (I forgot the writer - Colodny or something?). A good read with lots of footnoted backup.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Why don't I hear the William Tell Overture in the background?

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for posting that Ben Stein piece.


As noted, Nixon made many lifelong enemies as a result of his participation in the outing and prosecution of communists in the 40s and 50s.

[stop_fascism]

G. Gordon Liddy's claim that the burglary was initiated by John Dean to find evidence of his wife's career as a prostitute has never been refuted.

Basically, Nixon got screwed. He was one of our most liberal presidents, but the left could never forgive him for exposing Alger Hiss.

[MinuteGal]

This old guy in all likelihood doesn't even know this book was written or even what day it is. I believe the daughter and the ghost writer created the book according to their agenda and according to what will create enough interest to sell a respectable number of books.

I don't even believe this guy was "Deep Throat". I don't believe there ever was a "Deep Throat"......just a lot of creative, opportunistic journalism in the heady days of Watergate.

I believe Woodward and Bernstein cynically go along with this old geek and his weary story because it brings all the "romance" and glory days back into the public eye for a nano-second in the twilight of their professional journalism careers.

The whole thing is all so contrived and pat. All the current living and near/dead characters involved in this chapter in the history of American journalism are so unattractive and uninteresting that nobody cares any more.....and new scenarios have to be thought up periodically by fading Watergate ghosts and "legends" still trying to lap up some cream from the near-empty kitty bowl.

Leni

[surely_you_jest]

If this clown was the heroic, lone ranger character he now wants to claim he was, he would have come out of the closet decades ago.

I lived through this period, attending law school throughout. His explanation does not hold up. I'm not buying it.

[jw777]

he was really just Silvers road apples.

[tacticalogic]

Dare I say, that the MSM are going to start comparing the two?

I doubt they'll start comparing her to Linda Tripp.

[gusopol3]

When John Dean appeared before the Russ Feingold farce hearing on censure a few weeks ago, he gave the best explanation I've ever heard (liar that he is). He said that neither he (Dean) nor Nixon knew anything about the Watergate break-in ahead of time, but that there was a national security tie-in due to the existence of the Plumbers. He said "Nixon would have cut them (the Watergate burglars) loose," except that he was afraid the investigation of them would lead back to the White House and discovery of the Plumbers and their illegal national security inspired break-ins, like Ellsberg's psychiatrist (especially ironic in light of Felt's later trial on just such charges, huh?). BTW Lindsay Graham, who asked the question of Dean was clueless as to the history and also believed either Dean or Nixon had authorized the break-in. However, he was outstanding on explaining succinctly why Clinton was impeached, and it had very little to do with Monica. Remember how the Toon had contended that a sitting President could not be named in a civil law suit and got slapped down 9-0 by the Supreme Court (it was the Paula Jones suit.) He was impeached for perjuring himself in that lawsuit. This should be known and broadcast widely because it shows the contempt Toon has for the common man, as if there weren't plenty of legal maneuvers he could have used to delay the suit until he was out of office.