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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: pepperhead
"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."

Media whores won't talk to the TV cameras that would be at their homes in an instant for a scoop on this level?! What the heck do you know?!

Give them a few days?! Will you even remember this thread in a few days?

I'll give them years. Woodward and Berstein won't confirm Felt as Deep Throat. For one thing, that confirmation would reveal Woodward and Berstein as liars...Mark Felt didn't smoke, after all.

241 posted on 05/31/2005 9:31:56 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: CaptainK

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.


242 posted on 05/31/2005 9:32:07 AM PDT by fish hawk (I am only one, but I am not the only one.)
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To: Rodney King
Excellent.

I had proof of my predictions right here on FR. Dean did give me a scare and I thought I had picked the wrong northeastern liberal. My father-in-law, wife, and uncle also heard me predict the Kerry scenario over and over.

243 posted on 05/31/2005 9:32:28 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: Blurblogger

Say hi to Elvis and Ben Laden. Enjoy your lunch at their favorite site, any 7-11.


244 posted on 05/31/2005 9:32:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 5 decades.)
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To: Howlin
That's what they said on MS NBC; even had his picture up...he's O L D.

I "googled" W. Mark Felt and clicked on "images", but nothing came up other than shirts and a book cover.

245 posted on 05/31/2005 9:33:33 AM PDT by mupcat
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To: Southack
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.
246 posted on 05/31/2005 9:34:17 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: lainie
I'm not sure we can even *link* to Vanity Fair. You might want to ask a mod.
247 posted on 05/31/2005 9:34:56 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Swanks
You have just won the quote of the day for Deep Throat!

How convenient. The guy who is 91 years old thinks it's him, his family thinks. Just enough here give Woodward and Berstein their DeepThroat, who coincidentally takes his secrets to the grave.

248 posted on 05/31/2005 9:35:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 5 decades.)
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To: TheBattman
Exactly how many folks are going to come out of the woodwork and make the same claim?

I'm Spartacus, I'm Spartacus, no I'm Spartacus!
250 posted on 05/31/2005 9:36:05 AM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: Southack

If he didn't smoke, as you say, and Woodstein wanted to "disguise" Deep Throat in the book..the best way is to make him a smoker...


251 posted on 05/31/2005 9:36:13 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool...any volunteers???)
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To: cyncooper

Exactly. Yeah, they had one heck of a source, but they still had to put together the timeline and tie everything together, a big job.


252 posted on 05/31/2005 9:37:22 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Howlin

Bob Woodward doesn't have to be near the dying or dead to communicate with them. Just like him telling us what Condi had to say when she was alone.


253 posted on 05/31/2005 9:37:39 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 5 decades.)
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To: Southack
Found it...
And Felt's FBI position could have strengthened Woodward's desire to protect Deep Throat—by all accounts, he has been extraordinarily careful not to give any clues as to who his source was. An editor at the Post told us: 'Woodward disguised Deep Throat. Woodward tried not to lie, but he tried to keep people off the track as much as possible. For instance, Woodward made a lot of Deep Throat smoking cigarettes, but I had the feeling that Deep Throat doesn't smoke." Obviously Woodward had plenty of reason to disguise a Felt-type Deep Throat—if the FBI source for the Post's Watergate investigation were revealed, it could look like the FBI was using the Post and it also would detract from the picture of two young reporters out knocking on doors to find out all by themselves who was behind Watergate. -- From The Washingtonian magazine of August 1974

You just fell for the misdirection he used. That was the purpose.

254 posted on 05/31/2005 9:37:47 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: EveningStar

[shrug]


255 posted on 05/31/2005 9:38:24 AM PDT by lainie
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To: Southack
Media whores won't talk to the TV cameras that would be at their homes in an instant for a scoop on this level?! What the heck do you know?!

They are the sit down type. They want to be in control. They are not going to do a press conferance.

Give them a few days?! Will you even remember this thread in a few days?

Yes I will.

I'll give them years. Woodward and Berstein won't confirm Felt as Deep Throat. For one thing, that confirmation would reveal Woodward and Berstein as liars...Mark Felt didn't smoke, after all.

The smoking part could have been used to throw everyone off the guys real identity. My opinion is that this guy is as good as any to pin it on. I think deep throat was never a real person just a bunch of people and some BS that W&B made up.

256 posted on 05/31/2005 9:39:46 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Grampa Dave

On another front, Chirac just named de Villepin Prime Minster of France!


257 posted on 05/31/2005 9:39:46 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Ichneumon

I am Sparticles.

No, wait.


258 posted on 05/31/2005 9:40:25 AM PDT by unspun (unspun.info | What do you think of myconservativeprecinct.com?)
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To: Southack

Not at all. They were under no obligation to not throw people off the track, since, as I said, from the very beginning of the scandal, Mark Felt was in the Top 5 suspects-- because of what all was needed to pull it off and to have the info he needed to have. The list was never long, except from conspiracy theorists. They had to throw garbage in about his identity. Otherwise, people would move him from the Top 5 to the one and only possibility.


259 posted on 05/31/2005 9:41:00 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: Cicero
But the deep truth of Watergate is that there was not really much to leak. It all amounted to a second class burglary, in which Republican operatives used questionable methods to ferret out questionable activities performed by equally corrupt Democrats. Plus discussion on Nixon's part of making use of one FBI file against his enemies, which he decided not to use after all.

Absolutely correct, and had it been the Kennedy machine caught red-handed (or the Clintons), it would have been brushed aside.

260 posted on 05/31/2005 9:41:52 AM PDT by Jhensy
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