Posted on 06/01/2005 8:10:11 AM PDT by kellynla
For years the better class of Deep Throat sleuth—discriminating, Campari-sipping sophisticates like James Mann, Nora Ephron, Richard Nixon, Washingtonian magazine, Chase Culeman-Beckman, Ronald Kessler, and yours truly—have been fingering W. Mark Felt, former deputy associate director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as the likely anonymous source described by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men.
What the theory lacked in originality it more than made up for in plausibility. One month before the Watergate break-in, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had died.
Hoover loyalists at the bureau were frantic that President Richard Nixon would get his mitts on the FBI, which Hoover had kept independent of political control through a variety of nasty methods, including blackmail.
The Hooverites' bureaucratic anxieties were well-founded: After the Watergate break-in, Hoover's acting successor, a Nixon loyalist named L. Patrick Gray, routinely passed FBI files about Watergate directly to White House counsel John Dean, who was a party to (but eventually would expose) the White House's illegal coverup. In effect, the White House ended up knowing everything the FBI knew. (That's why it seemed so plausible that, if not Felt, Deep Throat might be Deputy White House Counsel Fred Fielding, a theory that, I regret to say, undermined in recent years my previous rock-solid conviction that it was Felt, or at least some other high-ranking G-man—case closed.) Felt pushed back by helping Woodward and Bernstein discover that high-level White House aides were in up to their necks in Watergate, up to and including Nixon.
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This timing is beginning to smell to me. How could Felt, a number 2 man, find time to do this all alone? Is he taking the spear is the question.
Isn't it ironic that it was the FBI, the Left's long-standing boogeyman, that wouldn't play along with the Nixon White House? And that it was an FBI man that helped Woodward and Bernstein?
agreed.
I say it's time to go to court. These FBI guys have got to have it impressed on them that should they break the law they will go down hard and it really doesn't matter how long ago they commited the crime or how old they are.
As this story ages a bit more it will give the class enemy time to mount a counterattack.
Then we can get even with these ba$t***s
Deep Throat belongs in a Shallow Moat ......... alligators included! 91 year old meat.
I listened to an interview yesterday with Judge Napolitano on Fox and he said that the statute of limitations on any crimes that Felt may have committed was five years...
I'm just going by what the judge said...
The FBI director passed files to the president. Isn't that what he's supposed to do?
Since when did J. Edgar Hoover become a hero to the left?
Get over what, genius?
Check Rudd's join date.
The story broke because Hillary wants to ride her role on the Watergate committee to the WH. She needs a coupoke of good years of Watergate nostsagia coverage (as well as Bubba's disgraful presidential legacy buried away). Watch for how long the liberally-biased media tries to relive everyday of the Watergate saga over the next few years and who really benefits from this in the longer run.
They will probably try to show reruns of the daily Sam Ervin hearings for goodness sake (MSNBC might as well given their abysmal ratings these days).
His daughter was sick of waiting to cash in probably figured she could make more if her cowardly father was alive and not a corpse.
Dittos!
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