W. Mark Felt is Deep Throat

ABC News | 5/31/1955 | ABC News

[CaptainK]

Just in on ABC News. He and his family admit it through his lawyer. Will be in upcoming Vanity Fair.

[Mo1]

Second in command of FBI. But now ABC is saying at the age of 91. he doesn't remember it but the family is saying they know it to be so.

I missed that part

He doesn't remember???

[gopwinsin04]

Apparently Felt has dimentia.

[weegee]

The nation was fascinated about what was in Al Capone's vault too until the door was opened.

[NonValueAdded]

What position did this guy have in the Nixon administration is the question.

Snitch?

[KenmcG414]

He's a rat!!

[kcvl]

W. Mark Felt, number two at the F.B.I. in the early 70s, told Vanity Fair Magazine that he is the source who leaked secrets about Nixon's Watergate cover-up. Felt told lawyer John D. O' Connor, the author of Vanity Fair's exclusive, "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.

As for Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward broke the stories in the Washington Post that brought the Watergate Scandal to light, he would neither confirm nor deny that Felt is Deep Throat.

Bernstein said he did read the entire Vanity Fair article, but won't discuss it at length or on camera.

Bernstein did say, "As in the past with articles and books, we're not going to say anything this time. When the person (who is Deep throat) is deceased we will identify him. We have a real responsibility to our sources and in this case to the source known as Deep Throat."

In a press release, Vanity Fair says that Felt, who is now 91, is a retiree living in Santa Rosa, California, with his daughter, Joan. The magazine says after seeing his declining health and mental acuity, and after getting the okay from Felt himself, Connor decided to write the article. Vanity Fair says that the Felt family cooperated fully, providing old photographs for the story and agreeing to sit for portraits.

[CaptainK]

Charles Gibson reported this quickly and quietly.

[Southack]

"I think this is it. His family has probably known for a long time, and now at 91 he is probably going senile."

I don't think that it's Mark Felt.

Mark Felt doesn't smoke.

Pause

If it's Felt, then Woodward and Bernstein have been caught in a smoking lie that will discredit much of what they wrote.

My money says:

1. It isn't Felt,
2. Woodward and Berstein will go silent about this new Vanity Fair article.

[maggief]

[G.Mason]

"Can we ask him who MD4BUSH is?"

LOL

Good one! ;)

[WKUHilltopper]

I heard Brushy Bill, aka Billy the Kid was also making claims of being "Deep Throat".

[Grampa Dave]

This is so typical of the MSM and the rats. They are putting the confessional words in his mouth via his family.

Deepthroat was as real as Mickey Mouse.

[54skylark]

Boy and I always thought Linda Lovelace was deep throat. (May she rest in peace)

[kcvl]

Felt said he was "only doing his duty" and did not seek to bring down Nixon over the cover-up of a break-in at Democratic Party offices in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.

Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward broke the story as Washington Post reporters, issued a statement neither denying nor confirming Felt's claim. Bernstein stated he and Woodward would be keeping their pledge to reveal the source only once that person dies.

NBC News commentator Chris Matthews, who wrote a book about Watergate, said he wasn't surprised, adding that Felt "has always been the leading suspect."

[VeniVidiVici]

Wow. So a guy that is pretty much an unknown is Deep Throat.

How anti-climactic.

[lainie]

Vanity Fair says "In an exclusive, John D. O’Connor puts a name and face to one of American democracy’s heroes, learning about the struggle between honor and duty that nearly led Felt to take his secret to the grave"

[Mike Darancette]

Woodward Trumped.

[kcvl]

[kabar]

Pardon for W. Mark Felt and Edward Miller by Ronald Reagan, 1981; clemency for authorizing FBI agents to break into Vietnam protesters' offices without warrants.

[Keith]

He and Edward Miller, as FBI officials, had been involved in Hoover's COINTELPRO campaign of surveillance of US radicals, looking for communist connections during the Vietnam war protest movement. Felt had come forward and admitted his role, been convicted of federal wiretapping violations, and was appealing when Reagan pardoned him shortly after after the beginning of his first term (April 15, 1981). Just like the Gipper to give a pardon when BEGINNING his term, not one of those "can't go after me cuz I'm gonna pardon my crooks as I leave" type of Bill Clinton/Marc Rich deals...