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.
"Deep Throat."
I think someone has already answered your query, but I don't know if anyone explained that the movie with this name was the first porn movie shown in the US at mainstream theaters, a watershed in our slide toward the disgusting pit of slime that calls itself "entertainment today".
There is nothing to the timing except the Vanity Fair article which has been in the works and what looks like a good 3 or so years of Felt's name bubbling to the surface.
I believe this timing of this story is Hillary's. She knew the Senate race would center on presidential impeachment since Cox will be her opponent. CNN will air now watergate thoroughly, trash Nixon over again, and discredit Cox for the Senate race.
This is why the story is out at this time IMO.
Well I'm a bit late for this but thanks for the ping and good to see you back. Your always right on it, don't know how you do it but I'm glad you do. :-)
Not sure what to think here yet, we shall see, always thought it wouldn't be revealed until Deep Throat passed on..
Fox just showed the video footage of the wave from the door.
Obviously Deep Throat was devious in obtaining info. But Hillary was even more devious in her "ways to bring Nixon down" which were deemed not only illegal but unconstitutional. Who knows what Felt knows about Hillary.
LOL, guess I'm out of the loop a bit, just caught it that Woodward is confirming.
Bump to your post 151. I can't find it within myself to make excuses for President Nixon or his merry band of men. They all broke the law and they have no one to blame but themselves. Nixon did alot of good things in office but most people will remember the break in and coverup. What they did was corrupt and unacceptable and last but not least, it was really stupid.
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Full-Throated Record
NRO ^ | February 23, 2005, 9:13 a.m. | Jonah Goldberg
Posted on 02/23/2005 8:03:08 PM PST by Checkers
If there is a Deep Throat, he should make the record clear.
by Jonah Goldberg
I have a request to make of William Rehnquist, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Robert Bork, George Bush Sr., Al Haig, and a host of other Washington graybeards. While you're getting your affairs in order, could you please prepare an affidavit - or, even better, sworn video testimony - to be released posthumously, clarifying whether you are Deep Throat?
Let's back up a bit. As we all know, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pretty much brought down the Nixon administration by exposing the Watergate cover-up. They then cemented their status as iconic American journalists with the book All the President's Men, which was made into a near-hagiographic film of the same title, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.
All the President's Men, both book and movie, were huge successes. What made them so, besides the engaging subject matter of high government misconduct, was a thrilling cloak-and-dagger plot. And central to this was the mysterious character known only as "Deep Throat." In the film, but not the book, it was Deep Throat who advised the reporters to "follow the money" in order to unravel the tangled web of lies spun by the White House. He was also the shadowy figure in a trench coat who allegedly warned Woodward that the duo's very lives were in danger, probably from the CIA. The implication was that Richard Nixon, the man who couldn't orchestrate a "third-rate burglary," was going to have the CIA terminate two Washington Post reporters.
Woodward and Bernstein have long promised that they will reveal the identity of this super-source on the occasion of Deep Throat's demise. Speculation and anticipation in Washington have been rising of late as the health of various potential candidates has deteriorated. Professional Watergate veteran John Dean recently wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times claiming that Mr. Throat is very ill and that his obituary has already been written.
Here's the first problem: Nothing is easier than pinning a crime on a dead man. Here's the second problem: I don't think Deep Throat exists.
I'm not alone. Recently, Fox News media analyst Eric Burns revealed that the late, great historian Stephen Ambrose had told him there never was a Deep Throat. Burns's evidence was secondhand at best. He said Ambrose had shared an editor with Woodward and Bernstein - the legendary Alice Mayhew - and she had told him that Deep Throat was a composite of various sources. Mayhew told Ambrose that the first manuscript of All the President's Men contained no references to Deep Throat and that she told them the book needed a stronger plot device. D.T. was the result.
This version corroborates that of David Obst, Woodward and Bernstein's former literary agent. In his memoirs, Too Good to Be Forgotten, he confirms that the first draft of the book didn't mention Deep Throat and that Bob Fink, the researcher who organized the reporters' huge pile of sources, notes, and articles into a workable manuscript, was stunned to discover the appearance of Deep Throat in later versions.
Obst also runs down several of the implausible details about Deep Throat in the book. Woodward was supposed to have signaled to Throat that he needed to talk by putting a cloth-topped stick in a flowerpot and moving it to the back of his balcony. If Throat saw the signal, they would meet at a prearranged underground garage. Inconveniently, however, the pot couldn't be seen from the street. In other words, this major Washington figure was supposed to drive to Woodward's building, get out of his car, and walk down Woodward's alley every single day. That's not very secretive behavior for someone trying to stay secret.
A similar problem is Woodward's claim that Throat would secretly mark page 20 of Woodward's home-delivered New York Times with a hand-drawn clock marking the time of their next meeting. But Woodward's Times was delivered to the building's lobby, writes Obst, "unmarked and stacked in a pile" before 7 A.M. How did Deep Throat figure out the right paper? And why would a super-secret, high-profile source devise a system that required regularly skulking in a public lobby before dawn?
Anyway, there are more questions and more answers to all of this. But I think history deserves a full accounting. Presumably, if Deep Throat exists he is aware that he will be named when he dies. So, gentlemen, why not get your side of the story on paper - or video - now? If you suspect you might be fingered for doing something you didn't, you have even more reason to get your version squared away.
Watergate prompted a generation of preening journalists to lecture America from a pedestal. The least Deep Throat can do - or, the least the leading Deep Throat suspects can do - is to let us know if the journalists belonged on that pedestal in the first place.
The classic ending of Woodward's book, "The Veil" had the former CIA director, William Casey, explaining his actions by saying "I believed."
Of course Casey's doctors and family say he was comatose, couldn't speak, and the family plus guards stayed in or around his hospital room 24/7 until his death while Woodward claims he was slipping in there talking to Casey, but let's don't ruin a dramatic fairy tale.
Nick Jones, 23, grandson of W. Mark Felt, speaks to the reporters outside the family residence in Santa Rosa.
"The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice," a family statement read by grandson Nick Jones said. "We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well."
In a statement today, Woodward and Bernstein said, "W. Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat' and helped us immeasurably in our Watergate coverage. However, as the record shows, many other sources and officials assisted us and other reporters for the hundreds of stories that were written in The Washington Post about Watergate."
Felt's guidance to Woodward -- provided on "deep background" in secret meetings -- helped keep public attention focused on the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate office and apartment complex, and on a subsequent cover-up effort. This ultimately led to a congressional investigation that revealed the role of Nixon and a number of his top aides. Under threat of impeachment, Nixon resigned in 1974.
He's clairvoyent, a real minder, Grampa. Well, that and his two familiar spirits, the two unnameable but eyewitness sources that verify every thing he writes.
In his books, he can tell you what everyone in a room is thinking, even if all the people involved swear that Woodward is totally wrong. That includes people like David and Julie Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, William Safire, Henry Kissinger, etc.
So what was in it for J. Edgar Hoover (or do you think Hoover was not involved?)
Aye. So Felt is Deep Throat...meaning that Woodward and Bernstein *lied* about Deep Throat being a chain smoking (he doesn't smoke), scotch drinking (he drinks martinis), White House source.
Further meaning that W&B lied about Deep Throat being an "idealist" concerned about his country (Felt had to have done it for revenge against Nixon bypassing Felt for the top FBI job, as well as for Nixon purging the FBI of Hooverites).
Moreover, Felt leaked FBI file information...something that sent *other* Watergate players to jail.
Now watch the Corrupt Old Leftist News Media glorify Felt as much as they denigrated Linda Tripp for her whistle-blowing...double standards being their stock in trade...
Bernstein's son did let it slip back in 1999 and his mother said that her former husband not told her who Deep Throat was but she always suspected it was Mark Felt and that is where her son got the information. l999 is when Woodward went to pay a visit with Mark Felt. Felt was living with his daughter at the time. I bet it has to do with Bernstein's kid talking.
NiAs in the White House tapes excerpt Chatterbox previously cited, Felt is discussed as a probable leaker. This time, though, Nixon (who, among other things, will likely be remembered as America's last anti-Semitic president) expresses horror at discovering Felt to be Jewish. This conversation, dated Oct. 19, 1972, is even more Gothic than the last:
Nixon: Well, if they've got a leak down at the FBI, why the hell can't Gray tell us what the hell is left? You know what I mean?...
Haldeman: We know what's left, and we know who leaked it.
Nixon: Somebody in the FBI?
Haldeman: Yes, sir. Mark Felt. You can't say anything about this because it will screw up our source and there's a real concern. Mitchell is the only one who knows about this and he feels strongly that we better not do anything because--
Nixon: Do anything? Never.
Haldeman: If we move on him, he'll go out and unload everything. He knows everything that's to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything ...
Nixon: What would you do with Felt?
Haldeman: Well, I asked Dean ...
Nixon: You know what I'd do with him, the bastard? Well that's all I want to hear about it.
Haldeman: I think he wants to be in the top spot.
Nixon: That's a hell of a way for him to get to the top.
Haldeman: You can figure a lot of--maybe he thought--first of all, he has to figure that if you stay in as president there's a possibility or probability Gray will stay on. If McGovern comes in, then you know Gray's going to be out ...
Nixon: Is he Catholic?
Haldeman: (unintelligible) Jewish.
President Nixon: Christ, put a Jew in there?
Haldeman: Well, that could explain it too."
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