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  • Watergate: The Great Myth of American Journalism

    06/15/2005 2:04:14 AM PDT · by Liberty Wins · 14 replies · 1,030+ views
    Human Events Online ^ | June 10, 2005 | Patrick J. Buchanan
    In the Watergate myth, two intrepid young reporters -- guided by a conscientious whistle-blower sickened at the scent of fascism he has found at the center of power, and backed up by a courageous and crusty editor -- bring down the most dangerous tyrant in U.S. history. It is the Great Myth of American journalism. Now, thanks to Mark Felt's family wanting to get the old boy some publicity and themselves some of Woodward's stash, the Great Myth has been demolished. Watergate involved two conspiracies. The first, now ancient history, was the botched cover-up of a break-in at the Democratic...
  • Felt in charge of ID'ing 'Deep Throat'-(the ultimate CYA assignment;Nixon appoints Felt as sleuth!)

    06/14/2005 8:38:23 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 305+ views
    WORLD NET DAILY.COM ^ | JUNE 14, 2005 | Staff Writer
    The Nixon administration put the FBI's Mark Felt – who recently admitted to being "Deep Throat," the Watergate source of the Washington Post – in charge of finding out the informant's identity, reported The Nation. The publication says it has obtained once confidential FBI documents that reveal Felt was asked to find out who in the administration was leaking damaging information to the Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the reporters who published a series of stories credited with bringing Nixon down. An article by The Nation Washington editor David Corn and independent TV producer Jeff Goldberg states Felt, who...
  • Mark Felt was told to find Deep Throat -magazine

    06/14/2005 6:37:21 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 61 replies · 1,429+ views
    Reuters ^ | 6/14/05 | Larry Fine
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mark Felt, the former FBI official who unmasked himself as the legendary "Deep Throat" source who leaked Watergate secrets, twice led FBI probes into finding Deep Throat, The Nation magazine said on Tuesday. Combing through originally confidential FBI files now available to the public, co-writers David Corn and Jeff Goldberg found documents that showed Felt in charge of finding the source of Bob Woodward's and Carl Bernstein's Washington Post scoops that helped bring down President Richard Nixon. "How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI," which shows how Felt cunningly threw the federal agency off his trail, will...
  • Mark Felt Hinted at Exotic Antigravity Project?

    06/13/2005 1:16:58 PM PDT · by Destro · 46 replies · 2,396+ views
    cmaq.net ^ | 09/06/2005 - 19:26 | Thien Vehl
    Mark Felt Hinted at Exotic Antigravity Project? Thien Vehl, jeudi, 09/06/2005 - 19:26 Fil de presse | Politique A few years ago while in San Francisco, Bob Woodward made an intriguing remark. He told the San Francisco Chronicle he wouldn’t expose Deep Throat until the man died but that when he died people would begin to research the case and one thing would lead to another. Woodward said it would all lead to a “fantastic” discovery. Now that we know that Deep Throat was W. Mark Felt, former #2 man at the FBI and the architect of J. Edgar Hoover’s...
  • The Contradiction of 'Deep Throat'

    06/12/2005 3:43:13 PM PDT · by MRMEAN · 12 replies · 813+ views
    Washington Post ^ | Sunday, June 12, 2005 | John W. Nields
    The news that W. Mark Felt, former deputy director of the FBI, is "Deep Throat" -- that it was he who played a key role in exposing and bringing to justice the people who authorized the 1972 Watergate break-in -- came as an unexpected revelation to many. But it was particularly unexpected for me, because, together with others, I prosecuted Mark Felt for a series of illegal and unconstitutional break-ins that he had authorized. In late 1972 and early 1973, during the same period when he was investigating the Watergate break-in, Felt authorized FBI agents in New York and New...
  • Felt's Daughter Tied to Cult

    06/12/2005 2:03:11 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 87 replies · 3,129+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 6/12/05 | Carl Limbacher
    As an FBI agent under J. Edgar Hoover like all Bureau men of his time, Mark Felt was a spit and polish company man who spent much of his time investigating radical hippie movements, wiretapping groups like the Weather Underground and registering disgust over the so-called free love counter-culture. But apparently the counter-culture had captured his own daughter Joan. In an extensive profile of Felt's rebel daughter the Washington Post revealed her ties to the Adidam cult. The paper reported that the cult’s leader is a "a self-proclaimed guru who, in two California lawsuits and several public statements 20 years...
  • Was Nixon set up?

    06/12/2005 3:16:05 AM PDT · by Mo1 · 36 replies · 1,748+ views
    pittsburghlive.com ^ | Dateline D.C. | June 12, 2005
    WASHINGTON -- It was a different era with new values. There were ongoing battles in Vietnam with heavy U.S. casualties. The Vietnamese communists were finding assistance in America from our homegrown revolutionaries -- the Weathermen, the Black Liberation Army, the Puerto Rican Young Lords and a large anti-draft movement posing as peace-at-any-price groups.
  • Deep Throat's Daughter, The Kindred Free Spirit

    06/12/2005 12:02:02 AM PDT · by red state girl · 32 replies · 1,679+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 6/12/2005 | Lynne Duke
    W. Mark Felt and Joan Felt are like many fathers and daughters. Their roles have been reversed by time. The 61-year-old daughter now takes care of the 91-year-old father as his health falters, his twilight deepens. ...... One can easily imagine each being embarrassed by the other, so different were they then. The establishment father. The hippie daughter. And even more striking contrasts have emerged since Joan Felt became a public figure through her father's unmasking. But who is Joan Felt? And where was she while her father was skulking in a Rosslyn parking garage confirming hunches about the Watergate...
  • 'Deep Throat' double standards

    06/11/2005 2:30:40 AM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 20 replies · 1,691+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | June 11, 2005 | Les Kinsolving
    Shortly after I moved from California in 1973 to begin covering the last year of Richard Nixon in the White House, I was invited to the home of a very affable FBI leader named Mark Felt. He explained that he could not answer a number of my questions – including one dealing with the identity of the Washington Post-designated "Deep Throat." I still believe that some of the information fed to Woodward and Bernstein was from additional sources – but attributed to this exciting nickname, the title of a porn movie. And that compels a question: Why did the Post...
  • Deep Throat identity isn't the most important mystery we want solved

    06/10/2005 8:41:29 AM PDT · by manny613 · 8 replies · 883+ views
    Largely lost in last week's tawdry torrent of media self-aggrandizement upon Mark Felt's confession-for-a-price that he was Deep Throat was the plain fact that most Americans didn't really care about the identity of Bob Woodward's Watergate source. What might have been a stunning revelation 25 years ago, when the series of Nixon White House scandals were still fresh, is now, even to those of us who raptly followed Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Washington Post reporting (and books and movie), a vaguely curious footnote. As for those under 40, even the minority of people who are consumed with current events, the...
  • The Mark Felt Four

    06/09/2005 7:11:40 AM PDT · by wildbill · 12 replies · 761+ views
    Townhall.com Opinion Alert ^ | 6/09/2005 | Gary Aldrich
    The FBI is in the news again, and yet again, the news isn’t good. The legendary crime-fighting, spy-catching agency that J. Edgar Hoover founded can’t get a break. First it was revealed that Mark Felt, the number two executive to Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray, was “Deep Throat,” and that Felt was all but passing out official FBI FD-302’s, which are reports of interrogations with key witnesses in the Watergate case.
  • Actor Robert Redford's reaction to 'Deep Throat'

    06/09/2005 9:06:45 AM PDT · by lainie · 41 replies · 1,509+ views
    Hardball ^ | 6/1/2005
    Robert Redford played "Washington Post" reporter Bob Woodward in "All the President’s Men." He also produced that film, which included various scenes of Robert Redford as Bob Woodward meeting his source in secluded locations. With the unraveling of the Deep Throat mystery Tuesday, Robert Redford sat down with Chris Matthews to share his experiences making the movie, working with Woodward and Bernstein, and the mystery of Deep Throat. I was attracted to the story, because I think that’s the basis of any good entertainment, starting with a good story. It was 1972 that I actually got involved with it. At...
  • Why Did Deep Throat Leak?

    06/09/2005 8:32:03 AM PDT · by robowombat · 12 replies · 741+ views
    Slate ^ | June 2, 2005 | Jack Shafer
    Why Did Deep Throat Leak? Hint: It wasn't out of a sense of patriotism. By Jack Shafer Posted Thursday, June 2, 2005, at 4:28 PM PT The unmasking of Deep Throat by Vanity Fair bolsters journalist Edward Jay Epstein's outsider view that press coverage of Washington scandals depends as much—or more—on the motives of the government institutions and investigators involved in the story than it does the intrepid reporters "breaking" the news. A "sustaining myth of journalism," as Epstein wrote 30 years ago in Commentary about the book All the President's Men, holds that reporters pry secrets out of government....
  • Was Coulter Wrong?

    06/09/2005 12:37:12 PM PDT · by cainin04 · 45 replies · 1,601+ views
    6-9-2005 | cainin04
    I sent Ann's latest article to some friends. One of them a liberal journalist emailed me back and said that Coulter is completely wrong in her latest column. Now, I doubt that she is. But I am not that familiar with Watergate, All the President's Men, or Mark Felt. On the red flag in the flower pot, he says: This makes me think that she never even read the book because his apartment and it's location are described in detail. Woodward described it, pretty much just like above, and said, I don't know how he saw the flag, but the...
  • Donald Trump: Felt is Scum (Vanity)

    06/09/2005 11:06:54 AM PDT · by Racehorse · 71 replies · 2,139+ views
    Moments ago on Fox News cable show, Dayside with Linda Vester, the guest hosts asked Donald Trump was asked his opinion about Mark Felt's disclosure he was Deep Throat. Paraphrasing Trump, he said Felt was scum, disloyal, betrayed the FBI, his President and the country. The audience applauded. I'm not usually a Trump fan, but I appplauded too. At first, I was not sure he said what he said. But, sure enough, he repeated himself, "He is scum."
  • The Unusual Suspects - (Burt Prelutsky on who "Deep Throat" really was........and why. Funny!)

    06/09/2005 9:19:27 AM PDT · by CHARLITE · 1 replies · 600+ views
    MENS NEWS DAILY.COM ^ | JUNE 8, 2005 | BURT PRELUTSKY
    Like most people, I had long wondered about the identity of Deep Throat. Now that W. Mark Felt has stepped forward confessing to having been Mr. Throat, I can scratch the two likeliest suspects from my short list. That would be Richard Nixon and me. I suppose some explanation is required. For openers, I never for a moment suspected Alexander Haig. He always loved the spotlight far too much to hide in the shadows, lurking in parking structures, whispering secrets to Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein. I had a couple of reasons for thinking that President Nixon had orchestrated his...
  • Blumenthal: Nixon's empire strikes back (Longs for the salad days of his evil empire)

    06/08/2005 7:52:58 PM PDT · by USAfearsnobody · 15 replies · 731+ views
    The Guardian ^ | Thursday June 9, 2005 | Sidney Blumenthal
    Nixon's empire strikes back Bush's imperial project has succeeded by learning the chief lesson of Watergate - muzzle the press. Sidney Blumenthal Thursday June 9, 2005 Guardian The unveiling of the identity of Deep Throat - Mark Felt, the former deputy director of the FBI - seemed affirm the story of Watergate as the triumph of the lone journalist supported from the shadows by a magically appearing secret source. Shazam! The outlines of the fuller story we now know, thanks not only to Felt's selfunmasking but to disclosures the Albany Times Union of upstate New York, unreported so far by...
  • WOODWARD DOES WASHINGTON (Ann Coulter)

    06/08/2005 4:57:34 PM PDT · by buckeyesrule · 78 replies · 3,572+ views
    Ann Coulter Website ^ | June 8, 2005 | Ann Coulter
    WOODWARD DOES WASHINGTON by Ann Coulter June 8, 2005 My only regret is that Mark Felt did not rat out Nixon because he was ticked off about rapprochement with China or detente with the Soviets. Rather more prosaically, Felt leaked details of the Watergate investigation to The Washington Post only because he had lost a job promotion — making him the Richard Clarke of the Watergate era. This will come as small consolation to the Cambodians and Vietnamese tortured and slaughtered as a direct result of Nixon's fall. Oh, well. At least we got a good movie and Jimmy Carter...
  • FREEP POLL (If Felt Hero Why Not Aldrich & Linda Tripp)

    06/08/2005 7:34:54 AM PDT · by Tribune7 · 15 replies · 752+ views
    Is Mark Felt a hero for leaking the information about the Watergate burglary to Woodward and Bernstein that brought down Richard Nixon? A. Yes B. No, if he had resigned and brought his charges before Congress, the issue would have been before the public during the 1972 election and the scandal would have been avoided. C. Yes, that might have meant George McGovern ending up as president. D. No, we ended up with Jimmy Carter E. If he’s a hero how come Gary Aldrich and Linda Tripp aren’t heroes?
  • Deep Throat Was Wrong; Nixon Was Not Guilty

    06/08/2005 7:58:25 AM PDT · by worldclass · 75 replies · 2,477+ views
    Wanniski ^ | 6/8/2005
    I came to believe beyond any reasonable doubt that Nixon did not lie or direct a cover-up, and that if he had gone to trial in the Senate, he would have survived. Why did he then resign? Because he knew a Senate trial would take a year of the nation’s energy at a time when our economy was falling apart underneath him and we were at a point in the Cold War in which the Soviet Union seemed to be winning.