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I thought all along that Deep Throat was someone inside the White House. Dean's contention that this fellow could not possibly have had access to a lot of the information he is supposed to have related to "Woodstein" only confirms what I've consistently believed.

The conjecture that this sudden "revelation" could be a ploy, to get Newsweek out of all of its hot water, and to "glorify" the golden days of the liberal media, which brought down a Republican president, makes sense to me.

They grab a forgetful 91 year old who can barely stand up at his front door, and who is waving at reporters and photographers as though he thinks they are representatives of PUBLISHER'S CLEARING HOUSE, coming to hand him his winning check.......and they tell us, VOILA! This is "Deep Throat!"

Make no mistake. This media and this current bunch of Democrat "leaders" (who aren't worthy of the term) are dreaming of bringing down yet another Republican president.

I'm not convinced that this is DT at all. I sense that whoever cooked this up might have "stepped in it," as Rush would say.

Char :)

"I think Dean had his heart set on it being a Nixon insider like Haig or Buchanan and can't stand that it's Felt. Olbermann will follow Dean's lead."

You're making it personal...making it about Dean's "Feelings."

That's not it; it's technical. If you weren't a White House insider...someone so close to Nixon that you knew *everything*, then you wouldn't know about the gaps on Nixon's tapes.

That was the shocker that Woodward and Bernstein broke in their November 8, 1973 Washington Post story. The White House attorney's didn't even discover those gaps on the tapes (there were thousands of hours of recordings to hear) until November 14, and that was after being accused of covering them up by the Washington Post the week before.

You have to actually *listen* to all of those tapes to discover that there were some gaps. To do that, you have to have access to those tapes...something that no one but White House attorneys and Nixon's personal insiders could do prior to sometime around November 21.

...And that rules out known FBI leaker (he leaked Spiro Agnew Grand Jury info) Felt, the FBI's White House liasson (i.e. the person who tells the entire FBI everything that the White House tells him...as his official position).

You might as well give full access to the secret tapes to a talk show gossip host as to give it to a liasson...moreover, Felt wasn't even working in Washington, D.C. that November...he had left the FBI back in June.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: W&B's myth doesn't work with Felt as Deep Throat.

We're going to be able to skewer the WaPost and other liberal rags time and again as this story unfolds...because they can't keep up their old charade now that Deep Throat has a name.