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.
MSNBC saying he was the #2 guy in the FBI back then
So, you've always "felt" you were right? ;)
Sometimes you have to "bend the rules" to get somebody.
Perhaps his identity has been sheltered to protect him from prosecution. Meanwhile they pursued "wiretapping" charges against Tripp.
Drudge just put up a PDF of the Vanity Fair thing
http://www.vanityfair.com/pdf/pressroom/advance1.pdf
"Never trust anyone who parts his name on the left." - Ed Hart
MSNBC keeps showing the picture that evidently goes with the Vanity Fair article.
CNN covering this, too.
Too bad I can't hear. Just see the nice pictures.
Bernstein's son said it was Felt years ago, Nora Ephron tried to swat it away as 'her speculation.'
Heh... OK - so there's discrepency in reporting of the facts... As per usual ;~D
In the summer of 1999, [Bob] Woodward showed up unexpectedly at the home of Felt's daughter, Joan, in Santa Rosa, California, north of San Francisco, and took him to lunch, Joan Felt, who was taking care of him at her home, told me.
She recalled that Woodward made his appearance just after a mini-controversy broke in the press late July 1999 about whether Bernstein had told his then-wife, Nora Ephron, that Felt was Deep Throat. Woodward had been interviewing former FBI officials for a book he was writing on Watergate.
However, now confused because of the effects of a stroke, Felt was in no shape to provide credible information. Joan said her father greeted Woodward like an old friend, and their mysterious meeting appeared to be more of a celebration than an interview, lending support to the notion that Felt was, in fact, Deep Throat.
"Woodward just showed up at the door and said he was in the area," Joan Felt said. "He came in a white limousine, which parked at a schoolyard about 10 blocks away. He walked to the house. He asked if it was OK to have a martini with my father at lunch, and I said it would be fine."
Felt was the No. 3 guy at the FBI during Watergate.
When Woodward came calling, Felt had just been the subject of a flurry of stories about Chase Culeman-Beckman, a 19-year-old from Port Chester, N.Y., who'd revealed to the Hartford Courant that Bernstein's son, Jacob, 11 years earlier had blurted out at summer camp that Deep Throat was W. Mark Felt. Carl Bernstein and his ex-wife, Nora Ephron, quickly stepped in to explain that Bernstein had never told his wife or son Deep Throat's identity and that Ephron had just always guessed it to be Felt.
Rats! I had Lazamataz in the pool.
and he also killed HOffa and was on the grassy knoll, too! His family will put it all in their new nust-have book.
I think the press conference had just ended and ABC then segued immediately into the Felt revelation.
I'm Spartacus
And to hype a magazine publication. If it is in a magazine, it is not "breaking" news.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8047258
Ex-FBI official says he's 'Deep Throat'
Magazine quotes him as saying he was 'doing his duty'
MSNBC
Updated: 11:41 a.m. ET May 31, 2005
W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the "Deep Throat" source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday.
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"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he told John D. O'Connor, the author of Vanity Fair's exclusive that appears in its July issue.
Felt, now 91 and living in Santa Rosa, Calif. reportedly gave O'Connor permission to disclose his identity.
"The Felt family cooperated fully, providing old photographs for the story and agreeing to sit for portraits," Vanity Fair stated in a press release.
Felt said he was "only doing his duty" and did not seek to bring down Nixon over the cover-up of a break-in at Democratic Party offices in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
Something about this coming out now, smells
But where did he put Marilyn Monroe and Adolph Hitler's diaries and Howard Hughes' will?
In addition to what you've already been told about "Deep Throat," I'll point out that one of the WaPo editors referred to DT as "Woodstein's garage freak," because Woodward--half of the team nicknamed "Woodstein"--was instructed to switch cabs on the way to a dark parking garage where he would meet with DT. It was so over-the-top wierd, I've been willing to suspect DT was Al Haig...he always took himself far too seriously.
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