The FBI didn't get the tapes until November, 1973.
Posted on 06/02/2005 8:48:23 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Deep Throat is Mark Felt, the former deputy associate director of the FBI — except for the parts of Deep Throat that clearly aren't Mark Felt, like all the stuff Throat supposedly confirmed after Felt left the FBI in June, 1973.
Well, that's going to be something of a problem, isn't it?
Dean analyzed the meetings Woodward describes in All The Presidents' Men and methodically analyzes what others have glossed over. For Woodward's version to be literally correct, his source had to be able to have access to specific information (and disinformation — Dean estimated last night that half of what Throat told Woodward was materially wrong) at specific times. He also had to be physically in Washington to conduct the meetings Woodward wrote about in the book, which were presumably relied upon in the vital day-to-day coverage he and Bernstein wrote for the Post in 1972, 1973, and 1974.
For us, he offered the startling fact that possibly the most vital information Throat gave Woodward — that there were "erasures" on at least one of the surreptitious tapes of Richard Nixon's Oval Office conversations (the infamous "18 minute gap") — was dispensed in November, 1973 — nearly five months after Felt had left his position in the FBI.
So where did Felt-Throat get that information? Gossip? Where from?
"How is he going to explain Felt having some of the information he had," Dean continued, "when it just isn't in the realm of possibility that he had access to it, even as third or fourth hand hearsay?"
Dean's e-book for Salon three years ago was called Unmasking Deep Throat, and unlike all the other attempts to identify Throat, it is meticulous and scholarly.
To paraphrase [Senator] Baker, "What did Deep Throat know and when did he know it?"
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
We'll probably find that the White House was bugged in some fashion. By the Bureau. Or the military. Or somebody who was supposed to guard against such.
We will for the first time get to see and read about the spins, lies and other odd things in the so called Great Watergate story.
I told John Robinson, that these threads will bring out more brown shirted trolls and moles than anyother threads.
Watergate, the resignation of Nixon and leaving Nam is the cornerstone of the current Rat Party along with abortion, welfare and socialism. The loss of the Watergate cornerstone will be devastating to the elite limo mediots and the rat leaders.
Amen, see post #77....
Glad you are awake and alert this morning, Grampa Ernest.
What a great find.
Our old friends at NewsWeak, (owned and controlled by the Compost billionaires) is shown doing their best at spinning lying like the Koran flushing story.
I predict a very long/hot/miserable summer for the limo elites of the Compost and the rest of the MSM elite mediots.
What fun we will have this summer, exposing the lies/spins of the billionaire Composters and skewering them on the Free Republic barbeque, which be running full blast 24/7.
Yes, I get the same feeling that I've been had with this. What's the real news this revelation is covering up?
Gordon Liddy says that Deep Throat was a composite of leakers who were trying to save their own careers. He also says that Dean was the instigator behind the Watergate break-in, that he was trying to cover up evidence of a tie between the call girl ring that was operating across the street from the Watergate and the DNC because his girl friend was one of the call girls.
"For us, he offered the startling fact that possibly the most vital information Throat gave Woodward — that there were "erasures" on at least one of the surreptitious tapes of Richard Nixon's Oval Office conversations (the infamous "18 minute gap") — was dispensed in November, 1973 — nearly five months after Felt had left his position in the FBI."
He may have known about that prior to leaving the FBI.
Did you know that Phillip Graham gave Bob Woodward a personal check to take to the owner of Newsweek to buy it?
The FBI didn't get the tapes until November, 1973.
"Did you know that Phillip Graham gave Bob Woodward a personal check to take to the owner of Newsweek to buy it?"
I saw that last night in one of your replies or KCVL's.
That action minimizes any thoughts about Woodward being just a new cub reporter.
JR needs to start a funding drive for a new server and storage to handle the traffic and data this hot story is gonna generate.....And lets remind everyone that no excerpts except where we absolutely have too....should I send a note to quidnunc?...
However, Woodward's five page account in WaPo yesterday is very convincing-but not in the way he intends.
Woodward, pathetically eager to please, was picked up and groomed by Mr. Felt. Mr. Felt ran Woodward like an agent. Mr. Felt thought the Nixon White House was populated by "Nazis" before they did anything!.
Woodward exposes all this without seeing what he is describing, so convinced is he of his own importance.
The question becomes, when did Mark Felt decide to get rid of Nixon, who were his collaborators, and how far back do their associations go?
All the way to Dallas?
"JR needs to start a funding drive for a new server and storage to handle the traffic and data this hot story is gonna generate.....And lets remind everyone that no excerpts except where we absolutely have too....should I send a note to quidnunc?..."
Re your first part of your quote, I like to note that without Free Republic there would be no Howlin, Buckhead and others who exposed Blather's/Mape's lie in the first night of their ill fated coup against GW. So we all need to donate to Free Republic to keep it alive.
Re you last part, "Please would everyone post the full article or search material instead of the links if there is no copy right problem. Then this data will be here forever. A lot of it will start to disappear when the libs see it on Free Republic.
Re quid, forget it.
Every important mission deserves its own name: Clean Sweep? Bat Cave? Rainbow Pot? CyberBeat? Search, Inc.? WAT (What about THAT)? Deep Truths Squad? etc.
The advantage of some key words to describe an event makes it easier to search.
I think that Ernest came up with Dox in Sox for the Sandy Burgler story. If we got "Dox in Sox" listed as a key word on every thread, it became easy to isolate all of those threads in a simple FR Search.
Like:
DeepthroatDoDo,
DeepthroatRedux
DeepthroatRevenge
Good idea.
I like those as keywords. Google doesn't recognize them either...
They fit the keyword maximum letters.
Did you try them?
Which do you like best:
DeepthroatDoDo,
DeepthroatRedux
DeepthroatRevenge
LOL! I wonder what he had to do to get an A?--must've been a tough class! :-)
I hope you didn't miss my post back in the mid-fifties up thread about how Nora Ephron called the Carl Bernstein character in her book "Heartburn" Mark Feldman.
;)
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