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W. Mark Felt is Deep Throat
ABC News | 5/31/1955 | ABC News

Posted on 05/31/2005 8:33:03 AM PDT by CaptainK

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 31may2005; bernstein; bernwood; dean; deepthroat; fbi; felt; feltgate; insiderinfo; markfelt; mediabias; nixon; traitor; vanityfair; watergate; wmarkfelt; woodstein; woodward; yawn
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To: Southack

Hmmmmm? Might have been a closet smoker ..??


221 posted on 05/31/2005 9:25:09 AM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: Cicero
The fact is that most of Watergate would have been nothing more than political "gotcha" Washington style, had we not had Nixon's voice on his own White House recording system ordering Haldeman et. al. over how to get the CIA to stop the FBI investigation of the break-in and it's White House connection by threatening Helms with an exposure of the Agency's past relating to the Bay of Pigs. This cryptic comment always brought a furrowed brow to Watergate investigators, until Haldeman stated in his book, The Ends of Power that when Nixon refers to the "Bay of Pigs", he was referring to the JFK assassination. Unfortunately, Haldeman does not explain this cryptic comment further...and passed on in 1993.
222 posted on 05/31/2005 9:25:15 AM PDT by Keith (now more than ever...it's about the judges)
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To: CaptainK

Used to be no one wanted to fess up to being Deep Throat. Are we now to be subjected to many claims to have been DT? Like in the movie Spartacus...? I'm not sure I care anyway.


223 posted on 05/31/2005 9:25:37 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (praying for the Troops, Vets and the CinC)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg
who really is Chelsea Clintons father

Mrs. Cartman.

224 posted on 05/31/2005 9:25:52 AM PDT by Numbers Guy
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To: cyncooper; rdb3
Definitely check out the movie.

Somebody would have to pay me a lot to watch that movie.

225 posted on 05/31/2005 9:26:39 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Dr.Zoidberg
One great mystery solved, now we just need the answers to the JFK assassination and who really is Chelsea Clintons father.

Where's Buckhead when we need him? :)

226 posted on 05/31/2005 9:26:54 AM PDT by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: Keith

Isolated comments balanced against the bulk of other posts do not warrant your broad brush about what freepers are saying and how they are characterizing the man.

That was my point.

You're going to see a mixed bag.


227 posted on 05/31/2005 9:27:01 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Southack
1. Mark Felt never smoked.

Ok, very good point

2. Woodward and Berstein won't confirm Felt as being Deep Throat.

They are media whores and won't do it unless they are scheduled for a tv interview. Give them a few days to see what they do. And could it be that deep throat was more than one person?

228 posted on 05/31/2005 9:27:08 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Cicero

Exactly. Watergate was basically low-hanging fruit.


229 posted on 05/31/2005 9:27:21 AM PDT by lainie
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To: zert_28
If Deep Throat is Felt, why wouldn't Woodard and Berstein confirm that after Deep Throat outed himself?

What do you mean? Why WOULD they? They have nothing to gain by announcing this since they gave their word that they'd wait until he died. They'll keep their word and announce it when Felt dies. They have no reason to break their commitment.

230 posted on 05/31/2005 9:27:29 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

All you have to do is look at her...Webb Hubbell.


231 posted on 05/31/2005 9:27:41 AM PDT by Keith (now more than ever...it's about the judges)
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To: TheBattman

"Exactly how many folks are going to come out of the woodwork and make the same claim?"

Well, I guess since NO ONE else claimed it in 30 years, this statement doesn't have much traction.


232 posted on 05/31/2005 9:28:17 AM PDT by oldcomputerguy
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To: Keith

Yeah, I suppose it was a good news cycle for such a pardon. Still deserves extreme scrutiny.


233 posted on 05/31/2005 9:28:38 AM PDT by lainie
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To: Keith
All you have to do is look at her...Webb Hubbell.

LOL...makes perfect sense!

234 posted on 05/31/2005 9:28:44 AM PDT by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: Kirkwood
I was under the impression that Deep Throat was actually a comilation of more than one person... that the dirt was coming from multiple sources and W&B fabricated the idea of a single person to protect those sources.

You're not alone with that theory, but I would guess that's a fringe (no offense) theory, and most of people believed there was one man.

235 posted on 05/31/2005 9:28:51 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: pepperhead

They'll probably rush their book to press and then say "we'll finally confirm Felt's story (or not) in our book".


236 posted on 05/31/2005 9:28:53 AM PDT by soundandvision
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To: Howlin

'Deep Throat' Reportedly Comes Forward
By Associated Press
NEW YORK -- A former FBI official says he was the source called "Deep Throat" who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair reported Tuesday.

W. Mark Felt, 91, who was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said.


"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he told lawyer John D. O'Connor, the author of the Vanity Fair article, the magazine said in a press release.

Felt was initially adamant about remaining silent on the subject, thinking disclosures about his past somehow dishonorable.

"I don't think (being Deep Throat) was anything to be proud of," Felt indicated to his son, Mark Jr., at one point, according to the article. "You (should) not leak information to anyone."

Felt is a retiree living in Santa Rosa, Calif., with his daughter, Joan, the magazine said. He could not immediately be reached for comment by The Associated Press.

The Washington Post had no immediate comment.

Felt is one of a number of people who have been named over the years as the source whose disclosures helped bring down the Nixon presidency. Others include Assistant Attorney General Henry Peterson, deputy White House counsel Fred Fielding, and even ABC newswoman Diane Sawyer, who then worked in the White House press office.

In 1999, Felt denied he was the man.

"I would have done better," Felt told The Hartford Courant. "I would have been more effective. Deep Throat didn't exactly bring the White House crashing down, did he?"


237 posted on 05/31/2005 9:29:12 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: CaptainK
I always thought it was Monica Lewinsky.....
238 posted on 05/31/2005 9:30:09 AM PDT by b4its2late (It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.)
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To: cyncooper

Many of the posts since I said that have been even worse...I was just trying to give a heads up that he obviously had friends in the Ronaldus Maximus administation. Far be it from me to give a broad brush of anything negative regarding my dear Freepers...if my post communicated something different, I apologize.


239 posted on 05/31/2005 9:30:52 AM PDT by Keith (now more than ever...it's about the judges)
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