Posted on 06/02/2005 12:12:45 AM PDT by Columbus Dawg
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- One of the greatest mysteries of our time is no longer a mystery, NBC 4's Colleen Marshall reported.
After 31 years of silence, FBI veteran Mark Felt, 91, who sparked the Watergate scandal, revealed Tuesday he was Deep Throat.
Felt secretly gave information to famed reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about the break-in at the Democratic Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel.
High-ranking officials in the Nixon Administration suspected Felt but apparently did not pursue it, fearing more damaging information might be revealed, Marshall reported.
"He's always lived with honor. He's a great patriot," said Felt's daughter Joan Felt.
Jeb Magruder is a former Nixon assistant and served time in jail for his role in Watergate.
"I'm sure he felt good about that because he wanted to protect the government from those of us who were in the White House and were, quote, 'evil people,'" Magruder said.
Magruder said he is proud of his time in the Nixon White House.
He has a theory about why Deep Throat is coming clean now.
"As the years went on, I'm sure he thought 'You know Woodward and Bernstein are getting all this press and getting all the money and here I am out in their hinterlands of nowhere -- so I think I'll get my story out before I die,'" Magruder said.
Magruder said through a process of elimination, he figured out two years ago, Felt was Deep Throat.
"I wouldn't call him a hero or a goat. I think he is someone who gave information to a reporter that was accurate, but not complete," Magruder said.
Magruder is not angry about what Felt did. He said he has moved on.
After Watergate, Magruder went to Princeton Divinity School and became a minister in the small Columbus village of Marble Cliff, Marshall reported.
I'd say this is quite accurate.
bttt
I wish someone would explain to me what the difference is between the actions of "Deep Throat" and Linda Tripp. Furthermore, why is one a hero while the other is a goat?
Felt didn't live a life of honor, he's been a coward for 31 years. His greedy family is looking to cash in on the pitiful man's treachery.
She did NOT reveal classified information to the media.
On the contrary, Linda refused to sign a false affadavit and paid a terrible price for it, as did everyone from Ken Starr and his assistants who were charged with upholding the laws of this country.
Bias in the media, of course NOT. Just ask the media, they'll tell you how balanced they are.
The difference?.....slap yourself....one involved a Repub Prez and the other, well we know the rest.
Black Bag Barf Alert!!
Indeed. Black bag barf alert...lol.
Like Felt reportedly said years ago ... follow the money.
FWIW: I think Starr was part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Methinks your meds have run out......seek help.
How fitting that he is now exploited by the very people on whom he depends for his well being.
Here is the real story:
Kerry, Watergate: DNC Links Caused Break-In? 'Republican Paranoia Started Early,' Says '72 Democratic Youth Director Bob Weiner
2/9/2004 6:00:00 AM
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To: National Desk, Political Reporter
Contact: Bob Weiner or Jeff Buchanan, 301-283-0821 or 202-329-1700
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Were John Kerry and the veterans organization he led the real reason the Republicans broke into Watergate in 1972, with information on them the target of the espionage? Was doing so an early onset of Republican political paranoia against his work, a harbinger of the pending campaign against him in 2004?
Bob Weiner, the 1971-72 Youth Voter Registration director for the Young Democrats office at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and recently a Clinton White House staffer for six years, is asking these questions after doing a little research to refresh his memory. Weiner looked in the Senate's Watergate Hearings in volumes held by the Library of Congress and researched Kerry's specific assistance to the Party's '72 effort, a Rhode Island speech supporting youth voter registration, in the Providence Public Library's archives.
Here's what Weiner has confirmed:
James McCord of the Watergate burglars and CREEP (Committee for the Reelection of the President) testified before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities on May 18, 1973 and was asked by Senator James Inouye (D-Hawaii) why the break-in was conducted. McCord replied, "Democratic national headquarters staff members" were "working closely with violence groups"... "which involved violence and demonstrations against our committee". When Senators Inouye, Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.), Ed Gurney (R-Fla.), and Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) asked for more detail, in each case McCord repeated the "violence" reference but specifically -- and only -- named the "Vietnam Veterans Against the War", accusing them as "a violence-oriented group" (Hearing pages 180, 200, 201, 223-24 and elsewhere, May 18 and 22 testimony).
So what was the actual connection that the national Democratic office had with Kerry? Kerry was the public spokesperson and national chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. At the request of the Rhode Island Young Democrats, Weiner had invited Kerry to speak, urging youth voter registration, at the Rhode Island Young Democrats' convention in Providence on February 12, 1972. Kerry accepted and spoke as documented in the Providence Journal of Feb. 13, 1972. Kerry also in a news availability there called for Nixon's impeachment as later did the House Judiciary committee by a 28-10 vote before Nixon resigned.
Weiner recalls, "That's ALL that we did with John Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War -- invited him to give a voter registration speech to help increase youth voter participation, and he accepted. That's just God, Mother, and Apple Pie. It shows the paranoia and overcharged actions that Republicans used against him -- and the extremes that they would go to against him and the Democratic Party -- even back then when he and the Party were doing nothing together but positive voter involvement. Nothing is more American than that. Oh, we did have one other link with him: we invited him to give a similar speech to the Wisconsin Young Democrats a few weeks later -- but he was busy that day."
"The Republicans showed their hand as far back as 1972 in blasting John Kerry and his causes for being extremist when he in fact was helping our nation in the most patriotic ways, and that will once again be the Republican strategy in this presidential race," Weiner, now a Democratic strategist, asserts.
In his May 18, 1972 Senate testimony, McCord conceded, "Part of the reason attributed to the operation was political" (page 173). Under further questioning by Senator Inouye, he also admitted the acts were "wrong... a mistake." But, Weiner asks, "Have the Republicans yet learned the lesson of this historic miscalculation of hyping opponents as unpatriotic?"
Weiner said he is bringing out the story and facts as an "important part of history now and maybe one from which we can learn."
(Source: Robert Weiner Associates 301-283-0821 or 202-329-1700)
In short the VVAW leadership were all traitors, and all of the men involved in Watergate from the Nixon camp are GREAT AMERICANS in the highest tradition!
Felt performed a criminal act when he violated his oath of office. Linda Tripp was a whistleblower calling attention to criminal behavior. Otherwise she would be an accessory. Felt was in law enforcement. If he really disagreed with the administration, he could have resigned and then gone public with his knowledge, and become a hero; instead he is a stool pigeon guilty of criminal behavior.
I can't help but think that Felt, being intelligent enough to become # 2 in the FBI club, was in much "pain and suffering" over these many years over what he had done.
Unlike the lying Jeb Magruder, who sought solace behind religion afterwards, Felt dangled in the wind, looking over his shoulder for the hammer that would come.
That in itself is just reward.
Chuck Colson too!
Me thinks your manners have run out. Seek help.
I say............ as some other one said in the past............."maybe you should put some ice on that."
[sarcasm] Poor innocent John F. Kerry merely
1. falsely accused most servicemen of atrocities and
2. met with enemy leaders in Paris.
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