Posted on 06/03/2005 2:01:00 PM PDT by CHARLITE
History professor Joan Hoff of Montana State University, an expert on the Watergate scandal, finds it interesting that Bob Woodward is claiming that he had a close relationship with former FBI official Mark Felt, now identified as Deep Throat, when Felt suffers from serious health problems, including dementia, and can't deny it. "It's just like when he said he interviewed [former CIA director Bill] Casey when Casey was comatose," she says.
Len Colodny, co-author of Silent Coup, about the "removal" of President Nixon, finds the identification of Mark Felt as Deep Throat to be rather remarkable: "A Deep Throat who can't talk."
The fact is, as AIM founder Reed Irvine documented, Woodward has been known to make things up. Woodward's Casey "interview" is a case in point. As Reed noted, "In his 1987 book, Veil, Woodward claimed he had interviewed William J. Casey, the CIA director, after Casey had brain surgery and could not speak intelligibly. Woodward didn't know that, and he made up an interview in which Casey is supposed to have spoken 19 intelligible words. It was clear that this was a falsification not only because of Casey's condition, but because his hospital room was guarded and Woodward was never admitted to it."
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Less than half the population even can remember it firsthand, and of those who do, I agreee most don't care. This story will have very short legs, after the obilgatory media circlejerk of self aggrandizement and celebration plays itself out.
FWIW however, I have held all along that DT was a confabulation of Bob Woodward, a pastiche of sources and guesses. This Felt's family's lawyer's deal with VF, selling out the demented old fool, now is a convenient way for Wood-stein to get the DT monkey off their back once and for all, and get on with their tawdry lives.
The MSM has been so badly discredited in the new media age, that maybe some idiots decided that for enough bucks they could resurrect a time when the MSM were self-acclaimed heros, the good guys! And this is going to backfire all over them, but they still don't understand that it's not "the good MSM days".
I've read all of them. '72 was also an election year for the Congress. Without Watergate looming, he might not have had to deal with so lopsided a Congress. He might have had the confidence and, yes, the time, to campaign for Republicans. Shirt-tails count, and Watergate--just 5 months old and in the papers nearly every day--cut them off.
Just so. Most people trusted the news media back then. As it happens, back in prep school I had an English teacher who taught the class how to read news articles with a suspicious eye, and never to take anything on trust. Plus I have never had herd instincts anyway. So I could see through the garbage at the time, but most people couldn't. The basic method was banner headline after banner headline, day after day, saying that Nixon was a crook. Not many people tried to analyze what the actual substance of "Watergate" was, because they were overwhelmed by the headlines, like a herd of stampeding animals.
Haldeman identified him in a taped conversation with Nixon, and he got his info from within the FBI. Everybody who was anybody knew who he was, but were afraid to prosecute him for national security reasons.
I don't think these things are going to remain hidden forever. Now that Felt has had a little "coming out" party, there are likely to be some other players shopping for dollars at their nearest gossip columnist.
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