The reason I'm interested is that at age 91, any book and movie rights won't really help him, so is he competent, and who's behind this this sudden revelation that seems so....opportunistic?
I think it is the Democrats. A demented old man is easy to manipulate, his family obviously wants money, which can easily be provided, and some other events are beginning to converge. Bringing Watergate and a disgraced Nixon back to the front page, lionizing investigative reporters and the media, and breathing energy into a dormant "Impeach Bush" movement all seem to be converging too conveniently to me.
Not only can this be drug out into the 2008 election season but it distracts the press from the Democrats despicable behavior in the Senate.
The left knows they are in a do or die time frame and they are going to take as many with them if they go as they can. This is a fight to the death with the left and we had better fight as viciously as they do.
" Does anyone know if the 91 year-old Mark Felt is still mentally competent? From some stories he has severe mental dementia, and from other stories he can be lucid.
....who's behind this this sudden revelation that seems so....opportunistic?"
The June 1 issue of the News Virginian , " On The Trail Of The Secret Informant " by J Todd Foster is a very interesting take on the author's dealing with the daughter and father, when he was freelancing for People magazine a few years ago. I tried linking ,but,this computer balks - a Google should do the trick.
The deal with People fell through when the daughter and the family lawyer demanded " a lot of money."
Foster referred the daughter to Harpers Collins who were willing to pay the Felts for the story, but, backed away when they could not substantiate the Felt's story.
"He was very impaired, and I thought he was dying," his daughter, Joan, told my writing partner.
" Felt soon moved into his daughter's basement. He was unhappy at the convalescent home and hard to manage by staff. He even spent all afternoon one day trying to reach the FBI, where he had retired more than 30 years earlier."
" He had dementia. And memory loss," his daughter said.
"He was extremely confused. He was up in the middle of the night [at the convalescent home], knocking on people's doors, thinking that he was doing investigations for the bureau."
Foster quotes occasions where his writing partner interviewed Felt and Felt denied being DT, denied knowing Woodward, thought DT was a fictional character, etc. Albeit after the stroke , but, he appeared lucid.
" It was only after prodding and coaching from his daughter and the family's attorney, John O'Connor of San Francisco, that Felt even gave his lukewarm admission."
Imagine Nancy Reagan doing to Ronald, what Ms Felt is doing to her father-pimping an old man with senility.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.