One piece I'm sure of...anything this pinhead writes is questionable regardless of it's content.
Keith is totally useless and defenseless in the brain department.
You're believing Keith Olbermann? Olbermann is just upset that their "liberal icon" is a guy who also went after left-wing radical groups.
JWR sure is mucking through the sludge and slime at the bottom of the barrel for articles to print anything by this moron.
I believe the "composite" theory more then this Felt guy being the Lone Deep Throat. But I actually think W & B just made most of it up. Esp. the cloak & dagger signal system.
There is a Dean growing on the Olbermann.
I believe that there may be a lot of people who believe they are DT. In fact, I read a little petulance into Deans responses here. I still believe that he may think its him.
DT is just a bunch of tiny pieces that the WP used to CYA, but when Woodward wrote "All the President's Men" he had someone in mind to fill the position. Woodward was just waiting for that person to die so he could completely shore up his own legacy. No reporter worth his salt would ever reveal a source dead or alive because that would damage his career...even if the source told him he could...that whole thing just sounds hokey.
So the bottom line is—I'm don't believe Felt is lying. I do believe that W&B are lying and always have been.
Do you know what else the Washington Post owns? Newsweek. You know, the phony Koran flushers. Isn't this story doing a great job of burying the story of Newsweek's phony story?
I wonder if Woodward and Bernstein are going to give Felt any money.
But he's NOT "taking the fall". Nothing is going to happen to him.
He should be indicted.
I also think Felt is a 'fall guy'. ::just my opinion::
What is interesting, on this thread that bringbackmyhuac posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1415461/posts
Nixon Horrified Jew Could Head FBI
Is this transcript true?
On the tape of a February 1972 conversation with evangelist Billy Graham – made public in February 2002 – Nixon complained that a number of major news publications were "dominated” by Jews, and Graham responded: "The stranglehold has got to be broken, or the country’s going to go down the drain.”
Nixon said: "You believe that?”
Graham: "Yes sir.”
Nixon: "So do I. I can’t ever say that, but I believe it.”
Graham: "No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something.”
Later on the tape, after Graham left, Nixon told Haldeman: "The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.”
The tape citing Felt as a leak mentions FBI Director L. Patrick Gray, whom Nixon had appointed after J. Edgar Hoover died – passing over Felt, who was expected to get the top job.
Here are excerpts from the tape:
Nixon: "Well, if they’ve got a leak down at the FBI, why the hell can’t Gray tell us what the hell is left . . . ?”
Haldeman: "We know what’s left, and we know who leaked it.”
Nixon: "Somebody in the FBI?”
Haldeman: "Yes, sir. Mark Felt. You can’t say anything about this because it will screw up our source and there’s a real concern. [Attorney General John] Mitchell is the only one who knows about this and he feels strongly that we better not do anything because . . .”
Nixon: "Do anything? Never.”
Haldeman: "If we move on him, he’ll go out and unload everything. He knows everything that’s to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything . . .”
Nixon: "You know what I’d do with him, the bastard? Well that’s all I want to hear about it.”
Haldeman: "I think he wants to be in the top spot.”
Nixon: "That’s a hell of a way for him to get to the top ... Is he Catholic?”
Haldeman: "Jewish.”
Nixon: "Christ, put a Jew in there?”
Haldeman: "Well, that could explain it, too.”
You're going to go by Keith Olbermann and John Dean?
My advice is don't.
By the way, his "sudden" coming out has been in the works since at least 2002. Per multiple sources.
There was a discussion about Felt's knowledge of the erasures on Batchelor's show tonight, but I only heard a snippet of the discussion.
Batchelor and his guest were wondering how Felt could have learned about the erasures, after he left the FBI. They were also saying, people who were aware of the *"deliberate"* erasures were legally bound to give the information to the investigators connected with the Grand Jury.
*as described in All the President's Men
That sounds like the official version of Watergate to me...
Eewwww, JWR carries the creepy KO? Damn.
"Unmasking Deep Throat"
John Dean, on a decades-long quest to identify history's most elusive news source, brings new evidence to the fore in his new book.
snip
When did you decide Throat was not a composite, and why?
Actually, it was Bob Woodward who persuaded me. I happened to state publicly in a speech, not long after his book came out, that I thought Throat was a composite, and that was picked up by the Washington Post. I had first met and had dinner with Bob not long before the speech, and when he sent me a message assuring me it was not a composite, I believed him.
So you take Woodward at his word about all this?
Absolutely. Over the past 30 years I've gotten to know Bob, and everything I know about him reeks of honesty and sincerity. I don't think he has ever lost his Midwestern values, and I can't imagine him playing games. He has staked his professional reputation on his reporting, and while other journalists carp, and complain about his use of unidentified sources, I believe he reports as accurately and candidly as humanly possible.
In your new book, "Unmasking Deep Throat," you write that you have relied on Woodward's honesty in figuring out who might be Deep Throat. Did you find anything in your research that might change your mind?
To the contrary. I was able to locate a copy of the unedited manuscript of "All The President's Men," which runs about 900 pages. It is probably twice as long as the published book ended up. Not only did I find clues about Deep Throat that for one reason or another did not make it into the book, I found many examples of both Woodward's and Carl Bernstein's candor -- like explaining who had undertaken various activities, and how it took time to develop what has now become their lifelong friendship. For anyone to not accept Woodward's information about Throat, in the manuscript, in the book and in his statements over the past two and half decades, would make searching for him futile. If Woodward has not been honest, it would make Deep Throat a hoax. I don't believe that is the case, and few have peeled apart his work like I have.
http://tinyurl.com/9kf48
How Throat got so much wrong, and why his leaks were not only ethical but required by government rules
Read "Unmasking Deep Throat" and learn:
# Why Throat couldn't have been an FBI man;
# The surprising amount of misinformation Deep Throat passed along to Woodward;
# How a White House attorney who fit all the clues turned out to be the wrong man;
# And nearly everything else you ever wanted to know about Deep Throat.
As Woodward describes him, "He was, incongruously, an incurable gossip(He hated talking on the phone or at his office), careful to label rumor for what it was, but fascinated by it."
Although Woodward, Bernstein, former Post editor Ben Bradlee and Deep Throat himself are the only ones in the know(He said he didn't know his name only where he worked), that hasn't stopped any number of former insiders and would-be experts from offering their theories.
CANDIDATES:
Here's a look at several Deep Throat suspects put forth over the years:
MARK FELT: The former FBI official is considered a leading candidate. White House tapes from 1972 recorded Nixon aide H.R. Haldeman telling the president that most of the leaks were coming from Felt. Also, the Hartford Courant newspaper reported that a 19-year-old it interviewed in 1999 said Bernstein's son Jacob had told him that Felt was Deep Throat. Bernstein and his ex-wife, Nora Ephron, deny he ever told his son.
CHARLES BATES: The former assistant director of the FBI's General Investigative Division is considered another top candidate, according to journalist James Mann, who also listed Mark Felt. Bates had supervisory authority over the break-in.
L. PATRICK GRAY: The former acting FBI director fits Woodward and Bernstein's description, lived close to Woodward, and was the only one of the suspects who could have met with Woodward on the pertinent dates, according to a CBS documentary.
ROBERT KUNKEL: The former special agent was in charge of the FBI's Washington field office.
HENRY KISSINGER: The former national security adviser and secretary of state is often cited as a candidate, if only for his proximity to Nixon, but there's little evidence that he's the guy.
DAVID GERGEN: The Nixon adviser, who also served in the Ford, Reagan and Clinton administrations, threatened legal actions against Esquire magazine when the publication in 1976 named him as its top candidate. Former NBC correspondent Jim Miklaszewski has said he thinks Gergen is Deep Throat.
PAT BUCHANAN: University of Illinois students working on a Watergate project unanimously fingered Buchanan in a recent study. Buchanan, was a speechwriter and special assistant in the Nixon administration. He later became a TV commentator and presidential candidate.
RON ZIEGLER: Former White House press secretary
LEONARD GARMENT: Former White House counsel and Nixon friend
NAMES BERNSTEIN OR WOODWARD RULED OUT: Nixon chief of staff Al Haig, Watergate prosecutor Earl Silbert, Republican operative John Sears, CIA director William Colby (deceased), White House aide (now ABC anchor) Diane Sawyer, CIA official Cord Meyer (deceased).
There is one problem that Woodward never prepared for..That Felt would live into his 90's...I'm sure they all thought he'd be long gone by now..how else can you explain the near panic and double talk .