Posted on 05/31/2005 2:24:51 PM PDT by kcvl
Per MSNBC
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I was thinking the same thing. Some of the living Watergate figures, like Liddy, could make a case that Felt was guilty of unauthorized release of classified information and that therefore their prosecutions were unjust and should be overturned. It does sound as if Felt did this more out of personal pique than out of abstract idealism about administering justice.
They are saying Mark Felt doesn't make sense because he could have arrested anyone he wanted instead of telling Bob Woodward. In fact, they are saying he obstructed justice by not doing so.
ha ha. what a waste
Got a link? What has Monica said?
Linda somebody.........
;-)
No no...the family wants us to think he's a hero. Didnt you get the memo.
Gotta suck to be them right now. Four years down the drain along with their investigative skills.
I read an article qutie a few years ago, I think in the Richmond newspaper which said that Woodward and Bernstein basically made some of it up. They did back up that assertion but I can't recall exactly how they caught it.
I thought Liddy speculated it might have been John Dean.
The family is on MSNBC NOW!
I do not believe this to be true. Felt is not Deep Throat.
"Silent Coup"
Absolutely. As did the author.
While much has been written about Richard Nixon's government and his resignation, the powerful forces behind his removal from office have never been exposed. In "Silent Coup", Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin have written an explosive new history of the fall of the president. The product of an extraordinary seven-year investigation, "Silent Coup" documents the political and personal agendas that combined to destroy Richard Nixon.
The truths unearthed by Colodny and Gettlin are shocking: They show the president at war with the government of his own making. Among many revelations in "Silent Coup" are these:
* The military spy ring, reporting to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that penetrated the White House while opposing Nixon's foreign policy goals.
* The presidential aide really behind Watergate: the details of his own clandestine and unauthorized intelligence operation; how he engineered the Watergate cover-up, lied to Congress, and placed the blame on everyone but himself.
* A woman whose name in a private address book may have helped cause Nixon's downfall.
* The Watergate burglar (speaking here for the first time) who was given a special floor plan and a key to a desk that was the true target of the break-in.
* The reporter who has concealed his real military background and long-standing Pentagon and White House contacts, and how he protected them - and their motives - with the cover name "Deep Throat."
* The White House Chief of Staff to whom Nixon turned for help, but who worked mightily to conceal the military spy ring and in the end was a moving force behind the president's resignation.
* The true target of the breakin was in fact "NOT" Larry O'Brien's phone, Chairman of the DNC, but that of an escort service the Democrats set up for out of town male visitors.
"Silent Coup" contains exclusive new material gathered from hundreds of interviews, from still unreleased government documents, from the complete Oval Office logs of Nixon's presidency, and from a painstaking cross-examination of the books and testimonies of the major and minor players in the story. The result is a major revision of history, one that will forever change our understanding of how and why Richard Nixon was forced to resign his office.
Len Colodny, an investigator and political analyst, has been working on "Silent Coup" since 1984. He was a businessman, public official, campaign manager, and political consultant before beginning the investigation that produced this book. He is a member of the Society for Professional Journalists.
Robert Gettlin was a national reporter in the Newhouse Newspapers Washington Bureau. He has been involved in investigative reporting for seventeen years, covering Congress, politics, the environment, the military, national defense, NASA, and virtually every major federal agency.
Something about this "family" has the ick factor.
How did this slime become second in command? I don't buy the 'past over' rationale. Maybe another Washington insider who hated Nixon's anti-communist positions.
It doesn't even have to be classified. It is a crime to release personal information about a federal employee.
You know, I find myself really uninterested in this--but I am getting a kind of satisfaction out of the fact that Woodward and Bernstiein won't be able to make millions on a book revealing his name in a few years.....too bad, guys...
Woodward said Felt helped The Post at a time of tense relations between the White House and much of the FBI hierarchy. He said the Watergate break-in came shortly after the death of legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Felt's mentor, and that Felt and other bureau officials wanted to see an FBI veteran promoted to succeed Hoover.
Felt himself had hopes that he would be the next FBI director, but Nixon instead appointed an administration insider, assistant attorney general L. Patrick Gray, to the post.
Hmmm.... You have to wonder: Did Felt feel slighted for being passed over for promotion by Nixon and pass on the info to Woodward and Bernstein, not out of duty and honor, but out of revenge?
So the #2 guy at the time at the FBI is DeepThroat? What's wrong with this picture? Maybe Hoover directed him to do it?
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