Posted on 05/31/2005 8:33:03 AM PDT by CaptainK
I'm listening to it on ABC
John Dean said it a few months back.
Was surfing and saw this on ABC. My speakers aren't working on the computer!
Thanks for the ping.
I did see on screen that he told his family in 2002 that he was "Deep Throat".
Thank you!
Only took 31 years !!
BUMP
I think I was Deep Throat- what were we talking about?
I'm deep throat, too!
Generally acknowledged to be the three leading candidates are W. Mark Felt, Fred Fielding, and William H. Rehnquist.
W. Mark Felt was the third highest official in the FBI at the time of Watergate. James Mann, who had worked at the Post at the time of Watergate and was close to the investigation, brought a great deal of evidence together in a 1992 article in Atlantic Monthly that fingered Felt and convinced many. He argued that the information Deep Throat gave Woodward could only have come from FBI files. Felt was also embittered at having been passed over for the Director General position and the FBI in general was hostile to the Nixon administration. In previous unrelated articles Woodward had made clear he had a highly placed source at the FBI and there is some evidence he was friends with Felt. Felt was Richard Nixon's personal candidate as Deep Throat. Bernstein's son blurted to others that Felt was Deep Throat many years ago. Bernstein's wife at that time, Nora Ephron, tried to explain it away, saying that their son overheard her "speculations." Woodward has kept in close touch with Felt over the years, even showing up unexpected at his house in 1999, after Felt's dementia began. Some suspected at that time that Woodward might be asking Felt if he could reveal him to be Deep Throat, though Felt, when asked directly by others, has consistently denied being Deep Throat.
It seems that (a) Felt lied à lá Klein of Primary Colors (b) he may have committed real crimes via the FBI files.
ABC was in the middle of the President's presser when they turned away and started talking about this
Charlie says it was mentioned in an article
Though I can't find the article online
You better call ABC and tell them they are mistaken.
It's not something that you would forget. That's like a veteran forgetting that there was a war.
My money is still on Rehnquist.
I'm Spartacus!
I thought Linda Lovelace was Deep Throat.
I think this is it. His family has probably known for a long time, and now at 91 he is probably going senile.
This absolutely makes sense.
I hope this story gets fleshed out over the coming weeks... It's been one of the long interesting mysteries in this country.
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