Posted on 05/31/2005 2:24:51 PM PDT by kcvl
Per MSNBC
WP has to be pissed; this totally takes all the attention of their book about Clinton.
Never trusted Bradlee! What a bunch of jerks we have in this country! When does the next civil war start? I am convinced we are better armed!
Hmmm. So his faithfulness to the law was selective.
But what it does, in the meantime, make Republicans root through their party, their offices, and wonder about those working with them. This tells me, another shoe will be dropping from the Dem/MSM machinery soon.
And yes, they are hard-up for a plan to "save" their party. And all they seem to have is nothing but a bunch of "herstory" to draw upon -- strategies that worked in the past. And which won't work again... For Republicans, it's gotta be like herding cats, being overseers for the new adult-pre-school group.. in Washington DC...
Not pretty?...lol.. all the better.
Look here: Felt is a democrat!
I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED! Yeah right!
I totally agree with you.
Felt broke his oath by leaking classified information. Felt abused the power of his office. Period.
BTW, for those in the DC area, Chris Coor is talking about this now. Coor thinks he's a "villain" not a "hero"....but, he swimming against a strong tide of callers who believe the ends justify the means.
Monica Crowley of MSNBC, former aide to Richard M. Nixon:
“The Deep Throat name did come up during our conversations and Nixon threw out a couple of names- but even he didn't know for sure who Deep Throat was.
“Nixon had a couple of theories himself. But Mark Felt's name did come up repeatedly while we were talking, but never in a serious context in terms of Felt being The Source. Nixon never referred to Deep Throat as that…he always referred to him as The Source.
“Nixon combed through a lot of documentation and went back in his own mind on who this could be. He dismissed the composite theory and always thought it was one person….Nixon always had a hard time understanding The Source's motivation- why someone would be this disloyal to the president and leak the story to the Washington Post reporters.
“Nixon knew Felt only vaguely.”
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Jon Friedman of Marketwatch:
“The two most celebrated investigative reporters since Gutenberg just got scooped on their own source! And their journalistic mystique, as the keepers of the "Most Famous Secret" of modern times, has been dramatically devalued….
“And while we're at it, I can't imagine that the executives of the Washington Post Co. (WPO: news, chart, profile) are too thrilled, either. The media behemoth owns the Washington Post, Newsweek and Slate, and yet it was (apparently) scooped by Vanity Fair magazine, of all outlets -- on a story that the Washington Post "owned." The Post has been identified as the Watergate newspaper, enabling it to supersede the all-powerful New York Times on one story, at least.
“Not only has the greatest media mystery of the modern times, and maybe in history, apparently been solved. But a business opportunity has been squandered, too.”
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Harry Smith, at cbsnews.com:
“As for Deep Throat being an FBI guy -- Nixon's response would not have been printable.”
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Tim Noah of Slate magazine, in a Washington Post online chat:
"It is kind of funny that the Washington Post would be scooped by a monthly magazine about the identity of Deep Throat. It's pretty unlikely that Bob Woodward wouldn't have known the Vanity Fair piece was in the works. Vanity Fair has an elaborate fact-checking process, and I would think a fact-checker at least attempted to contact Woodward to confirm some details in the story....
"When I spoke to Felt a few years ago, he said in no uncertain terms that for an FBI employee to leak details of a criminal investigation to a newspaper would be a terrible betrayal. Felt was a company man....I did think [Deep Throat] was Felt for a long time. Lately, though, I'd been thinking it was Fred Fielding!"
http://tinyurl.com/9otwq
WP deserves to be pissed.
Think it's ok to refer to Mark Felt by his MOST FITTING initials, MF? LOL.
I never considered it too big a deal who deep throat was, personally and know more about it right now than I ever have - I'm just posting stuff I'm seeing for the first time. ... I DO believe Nixon got screwed because he was trying to be overprotective of his staff - and that impeaching him was way over the top. I would have rather the Senate/House had looked for the treasonous leakers and stomp on them, but since that was never going to happen (and it hasn't and won't) it was ridiculous to be worried about this, and I haven't. If this was FBI leaking, as now appears possible, for whatever reason, I'm very angry they did not go this route - imprisoning the reporters for however long it took.
I imagine it possible that the reporters had Felt as a primary source, and decided they needed to hang on him a few miscellaneous items they had dug up elsewhere to throw people off his trail as well as to avoid revealing other secondary sources - and it sounds that would be completely consistent with everything but their "not a composite" contention - but right now, all I care about is using this against the Old Media louses if at all possible.
I suspect that within days, we'll hear that DT was partially a composite, but Felt was the primary personality.
Like I say, though, I'm far more hopeful of usint this as a way to demean "journalists" and their "professors" and "schools" than I am for the story, now. It would also vindicate Nixon's judgement - and that, I've always respected even when that resulted in his getting fried, essentially, merely for being loyal to his friends.
A lawyer might figure out if it really is full or just full in regards to that one part.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/evergreen/coursey/coursey.html
Felt's name comes up twice on tapes from Nixon's Oval Office, first on Oct. 19, 1972, and again on Feb. 28, 1973. On the first tape, Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman tells his boss, "...we know who leaked it."
"Somebody in the FBI?" the president asks.
"Yes, sir. Mark Felt," Haldeman says.
On the second tape, Nixon and Dean talk about Felt, and how people would view an FBI agent who snitched on his president.
"The informer is not wanted in our society," Nixon said. "That's the one thing people do sort of line up against.... They say, 'Well, that son-of-a-bitch informed. I don't want him around.' We wouldn't want him around, would we?"
Felt left the FBI in June 1973.
Felt was the #2 man at the FBI and he didn't know who he was??
News happens all the time. I don't think the timing is suspicious at all.
Well, Nixon and Halderman knew it all along.
Guess they couldn't prove it.
MF is not a hero, nor a patriot.
He is one sorry MF.
Excellent find, maggie!
Oh my ... LOL!
Thanks!
Watergate tore apart the nation. It was intended to rupture America's innocence and faith. And put forward a new "savior" - The Democratic Party. I remember it very clearly.
And now? Oh yea, Democrats break laws at will. Or only enforce "laws they agree with". And the MSM aids and abets them.
DP was my maiden name monogram.
It's true. I'm Deep Phroat.
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