Posted on 05/31/2005 2:24:51 PM PDT by kcvl
Per MSNBC
Thanks, bookmarked.
Sorry if this is a repost, it's an interesting read...
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199205/mann
The Atlantic Monthly | May 1992
Deep Throat: An Institutional Analysis
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This tradition was suddenly thrown into question with Hoover's death. Officials at the Bureau believed that Hoover's successor would be appointed from within their ranks. W. Mark Felt, the FBI's deputy associate director, the No. 3 man in Hoover's hierarchy, wrote in a 1979 memoir, The FBI Pyramid:
It did not cross my mind that the President would appoint an outsider to replace Hoover. Had I known this, I would not have been hopeful about the future. There were many trained executives in the FBI who could have effectively handled the job of Director. My own record was good and I allowed myself to think I had an excellent chance.
When Hoover died, FBI officials like Felt did not have much time to think. On May 3, while Hoover's body was lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda, Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III appeared at FBI headquarters and asked to see Hoover's secret files. FBI officials refused, insisting that there were no such documents, and after a nasty face-off Gray left. A few hours later Gray was appointed by the Nixon Administration to be the FBI's acting director.
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Candidates From the FBI
A S I said at the outset, I didn't know who Deep Throat was. I know from conversation with Bob Woodward at the time only that he was from the FBI.
He could well have been Mark Felt, who admitted that he harbored ambitions to be the FBI director -- not only at the time of Hoover's death but also in the spring of 1973, when Gray's nomination as permanent director failed to win confirmation and Nixon named William Ruckelshaus acting director. Felt was known in Washington as a person willing to talk to the press. He has denied that he was Deep Throat. "I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or to anyone else!" he wrote in his 1979 book. Felt retired from the FBI in 1973, not long after Ruckelshaus's appointment.
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Dean, the person who had a call girl "friend" he was trying to protect. His future "wife". lol!
Okay---ya'll are all trying to give me a complex...
I about fainted a couple of weeks ago when I found out Soul Seeker is like 29!!!!
I guess I will accept my age gracefully, though, like Barbara Bush---(I am a lot younger than her, though!!!)
Think Laura Bush---that is much better!!!
He served as assistant U.S. attorney from 1968 to 1973, including the turbulent period of the Watergate scandal. Mr. Ben-Veniste was a leading figure in the prosecution of this scandal. He served as chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office. He later aided in the investigations of other other issues of national importance, including serving as chief councel of the Senate Whitewater Committee(where he acted as chief counsel to the crooks). In his private practice, he has represented Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe, and continues to represent major clients such as Boeing and United Airlines.
Ben-Veniste is a Presidential appointee to the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, a group mandated to review and declassify documents relating to war crimes in the World War II era. He also co-authored Stonewall: The Real Story of the Watergate Prosecution. (I'm sure. /sarcasm)
Ben-Veniste looks like a mafia figure---a dumb one, but a mafia figure...
IF IT IS FELT........THAN WOODWARD HAS BEEN SHOWN TO HAVE LIED ABOUT HIS WATERGATE INFO!!!
A- Woodward claimed that he had met with 'deep throat' over a long period of time.
-----Felt claims he only met with them briefly.
B--Woodward has claimed that 'deep throat' confirmed their "research".
----According to Felt. That is NOT true. A statement by Felt, read on the news this evening.......says that Felt only gave them info. They wanted him to check their info.....AND HE WOULD NOT DO SO.
C--Woodward and Bernstein have said that 'deep throat' was a chain smoker.
---- Felt had quit smoking in 1943
ONE TIME according to Felt.
Could be.
Regardless, he just admitted to violating federal law by leaking classified info of a fed investigation.
ALSO- Felt was the one who was convicted for illegal break ins. Reagan later gave him a pardon.
Felt was not chose to be the director of the FBI....and it seems that it is well known in Washington that he harbored anger over that. But he was passed over because he had a history of playing bad politics.
I had to change the channel with Jenny Bacus trying to cliam that Pres. Bush is a liar. She worked for the biggest damn liar in the country. Both of them.
There are some big time libs in his family. The offspring and the like.
So they were just giddy when reading their statement today.
Looking for their liberal fame.
Wasn't Hiliary one of the lawyers who helped build the case against Nixon? I wonder just how "deep" she was involved
I didn't mean to give you a complex, but I barely remember Watergate at the time, I have read about it since then. 9 year olds are seldom well informed! :)
Yes she was read Ann Coulter's book!
never....his violation of federal law was a benefit for dems...........so instead of having to get credit for knowing a criminal......
His family will make money off of the lib's new 'hero'
I have some books as well! I just remember that Match Game was not on that summer! LOL
Do you remeber Dean's wife at the hearings with that hair pulled back as tight as a facelift?
Liddy is up making some very good points
I agree.
And Woodward and Bernstein just lost out millions they could have made and countless hours on their sequel book detailing all about Deep Throat after "his death". They can't be happy at all.
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