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What Everybody's Missing About Deep Throat (He Would Have Buried Watergate)
Self | June 2, 2005 | JohnRobertson

Posted on 06/02/2005 8:21:22 PM PDT by John Robertson

While many MSM'ers (sorry, most) are lionizing this guy as "a hero," someone who "did what he had to do," something big is being missed.

Our side has pointed out that he authorized/engineered illegal breakins himself...

And that he turned on the Whitehouse because he didn't get the top FBI job. Now think about that....

Felt became a snitch because he didn't get something he wanted! He was an opportunist, plain and simple (and it runs in the family, apparently, as they shamelessly say they urged the old man to do it so they could all get some money). Yeah, a real hero.

But here's what I haven't seen....

If they had made him the head of the FBI, he WOULD NOT have turned on the Whitehouse.

In fact, as head of the FBI....

HE WOULD HAVE HELPED THEM BURY WATERGATE!


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KEYWORDS: bernstein; deepthroat; felt; feltgate; markfelt; nixon; watergate; woodward
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To: Howlin

According to President Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, Bobby Kennedy was also investigating Bobby Baker for tax evasion and fraud. This had reached the point where the President himself discussed the Baker investigation with his secretary, and allegedly told her that his running mate in 1964 would not be Lyndon Johnson. The date of this discussion was November 19, 1963, the day before the President left for Texas.

A Senate Rules Committee investigation into the Bobby Baker scandal was indeed moving rapidly to implicate Lyndon Johnson, and on a matter concerning a concurrent scandal and investigation. This was the award of a $7-billion contract for a fighter plane, the TFX, to a General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth. Navy Secretary Fred Korth, a former bank president and a Johnson man, had been forced to resign in October 1963, after reporters discovered that his bank, the Continental National Bank of Fort Worth, was the principal money source for the General Dynamics plant. (64)

The testimony of Reynolds brought Johnson back to the heart of the scandal. He could only survive if he could stop Reynolds’ testimony from being published. Johnson got his aide, Walter Jenkins, to talk to Jordan. As Bobby Baker reveals in Wheeling and Dealing (65), Jordan was one of those politicians under Johnson’s control. On 6th December, 1963, Jordan told Jenkins “… they ain’t going to get anything out of Everett. I can tell you that… I’m trying to keep the Bobby (Baker) thing from spreading… Because hell, I don’t want to see it spread either. it might spread (to) a place where we don't want it spread… Mighty hard to put out a fire out when it gets out of control."

Understanding what this comment means is crucial in grasping how Lyndon Johnson covered up both his involvement in the TFX scandal and the Kennedy assassination.



http://tinyurl.com/74oab


341 posted on 06/03/2005 1:32:43 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: bonfire
It would look like this, only worse:


342 posted on 06/03/2005 1:33:30 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Grampa Dave
bump! bump! bump!


343 posted on 06/03/2005 1:34:20 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: An.American.Expatriate

Violence.

And not the smash-a-chair-through-the-Starbuck's-window violence.

The machine-gun-nests-at-every-building-on-the-Capitol-Mall kind of violence.


344 posted on 06/03/2005 1:34:43 AM PDT by geopyg ("It's not that liberals don't know much, it's just that what they know just ain't so." (~ R. Reagan))
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To: Howlin

Pic doesn't show up for me. darn.


345 posted on 06/03/2005 1:35:23 AM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: bonfire

Just got up, but am headed back to bed. I seem to have missed quite a lot.


346 posted on 06/03/2005 1:35:40 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

My head is gonna burst. Read all this and everyone's links tomorrow. Night!


347 posted on 06/03/2005 1:36:24 AM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: kcvl

OMG, I cannot possibly assimilate anymore tonight!


348 posted on 06/03/2005 1:37:15 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Grampa Dave
Dave, I ran across this very interesting post on Powerline last night:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/

 
Deep Epstein, take 2

We are proud to have reminded our friends at Commentary magazine of its publication of Edward Jay Epstein's brilliant July 1974 essay: "Did the press uncover Watergate?" Commentary has now dug the essay out of its digital archives and made it available online in html at the link.

Nothing published this week on the subject comes close to Epstein's essay in illuminating the issues involved in the the case of Deep Throat and the press. The commentary on Deep Throat in the press this week week reeks of the self-glorifying mythology that Epstein meticulously deconstructed as such thirty years ago.

I said earlier this week in "Deep Epstein" when I linked to the version of the essay at Epstein's site that I vaguely recalled Epstein having named Mark Felt as the likely Deep Throat in his Commentary essay.

 Todd Foster of the News-Virginian writes today that he had the Deep Throat story three years ago,

349 posted on 06/03/2005 1:37:37 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: bonfire

Abe Fortas, a lawyer who represented both Lyndon B. Johnson and Bobby Baker, worked behind the scenes in an effort to keep this information from the public. Johnson also arranged for a smear campaign to be organized against Reynolds. To help him do this J. Edgar Hoover passed to Johnson the FBI file on Reynolds.

On 17th January, 1964, the Senate Rules Committee voted to release to the public Reynold's secret testimony. Johnson responded by leaking information from Reynolds' FBI file to Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. On 5th February, 1964, the Washington Post reported that Reynolds had lied about his academic success at West Point. The article also claimed that Reynolds had been a supporter of Joseph McCarthy and had accused business rivals of being secret members of the American Communist Party. It was also revealed that Reynolds had made anti-Semitic remarks while in Berlin in 1953.

A few weeks later the New York Times reported that Lyndon B. Johnson had used information from secret government documents to smear Don B. Reynolds. It also reported that Johnson's officials had been applying pressure on the editors of newspapers not to print information that had been disclosed by Reynolds in front of the Senate Rules Committee.

On 10th May, 1965, Baker's secretary, Nancy Carole Tyler, died in a plane crash, near Ocean City, Maryland. Her roommate, Mary Jo Kopechne, died in road accident when a passenger of a car driven by Edward Kennedy.

Despite the efforts of his lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams, in 1967 Baker was found guilty of seven counts of theft, fraud and income tax evasions. This included accepting large sums in "campaign donations" intended to buy influence with various senators, but had kept the money for himself. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison but served only sixteen months. Baker later wrote about his experiences in the book Wheeling and Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator (1978).

Joachim Joesten, an investigative journalist, wrote: "The Baker scandal then is truly the hidden key to the assassination, or more exact, the timing of the Baker affair crystallized the more or less vague plans to eliminate Kennedy which had already been in existence the threat of complete exposure which faced Johnson in the Baker scandal provided that final impulse he was forced to give the go-ahead signal to the plotters who had long been waiting for the right opportunity."


http://tinyurl.com/dxycu


350 posted on 06/03/2005 1:37:58 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: bonfire

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/11/1624/1024/conspiracy.jpg


351 posted on 06/03/2005 1:38:37 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Howlin

352 posted on 06/03/2005 1:38:59 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: backhoe

Ha! FR rules again! We had that Todd Foster article late last night!


353 posted on 06/03/2005 1:41:03 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: kcvl; Howlin

I'll have to finish reading this tomorrow.....well, later today.

Night all. Thanks for all the info.

And howlin'....."Have any kind of day you feel like!"


354 posted on 06/03/2005 1:42:53 AM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: kcvl; Mo1

Here it is:

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050603.html


355 posted on 06/03/2005 1:43:28 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: bonfire

:-)


356 posted on 06/03/2005 1:45:47 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Howlin
Ha! FR rules again! We had that Todd Foster article late last night!

The old, stone age media can't compete with the collective memory and intelligence of the New Media.

And I'm loving every minute of it.

357 posted on 06/03/2005 1:45:56 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: Howlin

Thanks!


358 posted on 06/03/2005 1:46:15 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: backhoe

Just think what we could have done with this story back in 1971-73.

Nixon might have actually gotten a fair hearing.


359 posted on 06/03/2005 1:47:24 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Mrs Zip

ping


360 posted on 06/03/2005 1:53:08 AM PDT by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 48% of Americans (NRA))))
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