[NormsRevenge]

Joan Felt and her father W. Mark Felt appear in front of their home Tuesday, May 31, 2005, in Santa Rosa, Calif. A memoir released Monday, April 24, 2006 by the man known as 'Deep Throat' sheds little new light on former FBI agent Mark Felt's relationship with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Instead, 'A G-Man's Life: The FBI, 'Deep Throat' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington' combines unpublished writings with material from Felt's 1979 memoir. It also reveals that Felt's wife did not die of a heart attack in 1984, but killed herself with his service revolver because of the strain from his legal troubles and FBI duties. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File) (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

[NormsRevenge]

He wasn't a leaker, He was a whistleblower.

[JmyBryan]

Who was Tonto?

[NormsRevenge]

Felt also dismisses speculation that he became Deep Throat because he was angry at being passed over as J. Edgar Hoover's successor and wanted to sabotage the new boss, L. Patrick Gray.

"It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died. It is not true that I was jealous of Gray," he wrote.

[Lekker 1]

Watergate's "Deep Throat" says in a new memoir that he saw himself as a "Lone Ranger"

A couple of fine movies, I must say.

[toddlintown]

One more dick in a long line of dicks.

[Doogle]

...another example of the MSM trying to compare (or ease) McCarthy's deeds to something heroic....Sandy Berger will become a fine example of a heroic figure before long. ANYTHING to protect the legacy....???...what legacy?

[PeaRidge]

I don't recall anything that he provided to Woodward and Bernstein that would have brought down Nixon.

Whoever was in charge of the Nixon tapes early on was the one that provided the first hand information that brought down the President.

And I don't think anyone knows who that was.

[Kimmers]

Special Report
Deep Throat and Genocide
By Ben Stein

Published 6/1/2005 12:22:42 AM
Re: The "news" that former FBI agent Mark Felt broke the law, broke his code of ethics, broke his oath and was the main source for Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's articles that helped depose Richard Nixon, a few thoughts.

Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW's, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel's life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?

Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable. He lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose. He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded.

That is his legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton -- a lying, conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon's kharma.

When his enemies brought him down, and they had been laying for him since he proved that Alger Hiss was a traitor, since Alger Hiss was their fair-haired boy, this is what they bought for themselves in the Kharma Supermarket that is life:

1.) The defeat of the South Vietnamese government with decades of death and hardship for the people of Vietnam.

2.) The assumption of power in Cambodia by the bloodiest government of all time, the Khmer Rouge, who killed a third of their own people, often by making children beat their own parents to death. No one doubts RN would never have let this happen.

So, this is the great boast of the enemies of Richard Nixon, including Mark Felt: they made the conditions necessary for the Cambodian genocide. If there is such a thing as kharma, if there is such a thing as justice in this life of the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide. I hope they are happy now -- because their future looks pretty bleak to me.


Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer in Beverly Hills and Malibu, and author of "Ben Stein's Diary" each month in The American Spectator.

[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....

[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.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

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

[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.

[Bernard Marx]

The man who revealed himself as Watergate's "Deep Throat" says in a new memoir that he saw himself as a "Lone Ranger" who could help derail a White House cover-up.

Describing himself as the Lone Ranger lends a lot of credence to this account of the Mormon "White Horse" prophecy which, in fact, mentions Felt (a Mormon) in the Deep Throat context:

White Horse Prophecy

[jmaroneps37]

The only good part about this that he "felt" like doing this and since he came forward we have "felt" like ignoring him. He has gotten none of the celebrity and money he thought he would get.