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.
He can't ,unless, he did so before he lost it all. It can come on quickly. My Dad was fine with his memories having details of his youth, and childhood, plus all his working years; and in a few months he didn't remember any of it. He was 90 at the time. He died just short of his 93 birthday.
No, being the liasson to the White House is far from being a White House insider. Liassons are specifically left out of The Loop, in fact.
By definition, what you admit to the liasson goes back to the entire FBI...that's how liassons officially work...so Felt was the *last* person who would be told about Nixon's secret tapes.
bookmrk ping
I agree with you -- I think it was Felt as he had all the access to the FBI Files.
Thanks for your clarification. It was thoughtful of you and I appreciate your having troubled to make it.
One word describes Klinton, "MANURE".
What does bother me is the way he and #41 seem to have become buddies.
An article I read once, said that Deep Throat couldn't have worked at the White House because of what he actually got wrong. If it was a true insider, Deep Throat would have had better info on the Executive Office side of things.
Somewhat off topic. Woodward and Bernstein are still milking this thing way too much with their silly press releases today. You know that they have already written their book on this, have it ready for publishing, with multi millions of dollars for the rights.
That is why they refuse to talk about it. They are waiting until it is financially advantageous to them to do it. This is not about protecting sources. They are probably trying to shore up their film rights, and foreign language distribution of their book.
I saw it ... I mentioned on the Presser Thread
The President was sounding great .. making great points and making the media look like fools
and then all of a sudden Charlie Gibson broke in with this news article
Later, I heard on Rush that it was Felt's grandson that wanted this information out .. that he thinks his grandfather is a hero for what he did
Who is this grandson??
When does a main network break in the middle of a President news conference to report on an article that isn't verified??
it smells ... it really smells
Woodward and Bernstein have both said that they *will* talk about it upon DT's death, or if DT releases them from their confidentiality agreement.
Ergo, DT isn't dead and they haven't been cleared to release DT's name. Take that for what you will.
Also, keep in mind that sometime after Watergate, W&B said that DT was *employed* (present tense) in government...something that Felt didn't have for long after Watergate.
"was also embittered at having been passed over for the Director General position and the FBI in general was hostile to the Nixon administration."
Some things never change. The federal bureaucracies are no great friends of the GOP. Why should the "permanent government" be?
As you say, the list goes on.
>>Did the FBI have more time with the tapes than the prosecutors?! Somehow I doubt it.<<
Would they have had the manpower to use strictly for just listening to thousands of hours of the tapes, never mind transcribing them? Somehow I doubt it too.
It was Fink Felt that did Nixon in!
Re Post No. 319: Quite a revealing conversation. Thanks for the post.
Quite possibly you are correct, however there may have been others, such as a few top SS men who suspected it.
I agree with you 100% that the Right, as much as the Left, brought an end to Nixon's presidency, but I think it is of some importance to consider the office that Felt held and the seriousness of the second-in-command at the FBI undertaking to weaken the presidency (whoever the president happens to be). If the head of the FBI had not chosen to 'take the fall' for the most serious misjudgements made by the Administration, prior to the Iraq War, 'W' would have been seriously weakened. I was glad you brought up Alger Hiss and Nixon's role in ultimately bringing Soviet Agent Ales to heel, and I make reference to this in post #413 in connection with Felt. It is clear enough that Bernstein was an acolyte of Hiss by virtue of his father's indoctrinations, and it is a bit disconcerting that he in particular should have been a party to the 'Felt Coverup'. Motivation is always important in assessing the relative importance of Right and Left in Nixon's downfall, and I think the real passion was with the Left (as it was in Vietnam unfortunately) whereas the Right, in this case, played a default option that suddenly became open to those who opposed Nixon for all of the reasons you mentioned.
He was one of the main suspects at the time.
The discussion, if he was Deep Throat, could be whether his actions bode ill or well for trust in the State. Did he fly in the face of professional ethics to promote a greater good?
What was Woodwards job and rank in the service?
Nope. You've got it backwards. What DT got wrong were things that supposedly happened *outside* of the White House. Here's White House insider Dean in his own words:
"when history's greatest source was wrong — that Woodward has never corrected. (To pick just one of Throat's many errors, I randomly opened "All the President's Men," scanned until I came to the passage in which Woodward reports Throat as giving him this: "Dean talked with Sen. [Howard] Baker after [the] Watergate committee [was] formed..."
That comes from Dean's article in February of this year in which he says a fellow White House insider had to be DT.
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