'Deep Throat' uncut

Washington Times ^ | June 3, 2005 | By Gary Aldrich

[Jim Robinson]

"Deep Throat" has at last come forward. Arguably the most notorious informant in recent history is former FBI official W. Mark Felt, and it's been confirmed by The Washington Post.

Mr. Felt was second-in-command at the FBI during Watergate, and is now 91 years of age. In stepping forward, he not only destroys his reputation, but he takes a chunk out of the reputation of the agency that supported him and his family in a comfortable lifestyle for so many years.

Had Mr. Felt used the lawful route to voice his concerns about the Nixon administration he might be remembered with a modicum of respect, if not admiration. Some in the Nixon administration were misusing their powers but not because they were feathering their own nests like Mr. Felt was. For their sins they got lengthy trials and prison sentences. Mr. Felt broke numerous federal laws, but received immunity from prosecution by hiding behind the skirts of two reporters at The Washington Post. They made their careers, and he made a clean getaway.

[Jim Robinson]

"Remarkably, Mr. Woodward sleepwalked through eight years of Bill and Hillary Clinton. There he was, sitting on the second biggest story of his career -- the emerging impeachment of Bill Clinton -- and he didn't act. Travelgate, FBI Filegate, missing Rose law firm documents found in Hillary's residence, the conviction of Webb Hubble, Vince Foster's mysterious death, the endless parade of White House bimbos ... all seemed to add up to nothing in the eyes of Mr. Woodward and his colleagues at The Post."

"When it came to Mr. Clinton, The Post always seemed late to the party."

"You can be a whistleblower in this town and survive. But we are a nation of laws, and there is a path for whistleblowers approved by Congress and the courts, and encouraged by the White House. In the event a whistleblower thinks he has important information that should be revealed for the good of the nation, he can do it and in fact, has an absolute obligation to come forward."

"Mr. Felt broke the law, and if he had been caught he probably would have been indicted and convicted. His actions were not in service to his agency, or to the citizens who paid his salary and now support his retirement. His actions were in service to himself."

[Stentor]

Bump.

[leadpenny]

I wasn't convinced earlier in the week when people said this story was going to have legs. I now am.

Hopefully, it will help to show the hypocrisy of the left as we go into 08.

[Navy Patriot]

Felt is no hero, and received a pardon he didn't deserve.

His was a personal unlawful retaliation against Nixon, and he knows it.

In addition, Ben Stein suggests that Felt's destruction of Nixons ability to lead caused massive death in Vietnam and Cambodia as Nixon was forced to close the Viet Nam war. A theory I do not disagree with.

[G.Mason]

Gary Aldrich, yes Virginia, there has been honesty in the F.B.I., bump!

[Southack]

Lets also not forget that Felt left the FBI in June of '73, long before Deep Throat told Woodward and Bernstein about the gaps in Nixon's secret tapes...tapes that the FBI didn't hear until November of '73.

Which is to say, lots and lots of W&B's Watergate reporting no longer holds up now that Deep Throat has a name.

How did W&B learn of the "gaps" in Nixon's tapes from a source that didn't have access to said tapes?!

A source that was *convicted* of authorizing illegal FBI raids, to boot. Felt illegally leaked Spiro Agnew grand jury evidence. He leaked FBI files.

W&B have also been caught in several lies...Deep Throat wasn't a chain smoker in 1973...Felt had given up smoking in 1946. Felt drinks martinis, not scotch. Felt wasn't a White House insider. Felt wasn't snitching for altruistic reasons, either.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Truly the level of outright conspiracy among the Left--and compliant, profitable and ruthless Fellow Traveling by the mass media and education institutions--has wounded America.

While Felt and the Post and Rather and Cronkite may reside in America, America does not reside in them. AMERICA DOES NOT RESIDE IN THEM. These are not our Countrymen, these are hostile enemy aliens at heart regardless of domicile.

Tora! Tora! Tora! Indeed, may the fury of an apathetic, uninformed, yet rise to a fever pitch, may we rise as one, in righteous indignation to oust and prosecute the enemies within that will not be quenched except with harsh justice.

Certainly here at FR there is a crescendo of informed outrage that I pray will not be distracted from the duty to take back our streets, our government, our hope from these lying marketeers of propaganda, trivia and lies.

SO HELP US, GOD!

[EdHallick]

Over 30 years later and here we are still talking about something that Clinton would consider a day off. Someday, those two slimebags, Woodward and that toad Bernstein will get off their hypocritical butts and turn their attention to something that was the real definition of Presidential corruption, namely the Clinton administration.

Maybe it hasn`t occurred to the traitors Woodward, Felt and Bernstein, but just maybe Nixon was a patriot who went to extreme lengths to ensure that a bunch of commie loving punks didn`t get back in the saddle to continue doing something that`s only purpose was to destroy the United States and the lives of it`s military personnel. Remember, Nixon sacrificed himself, he didn`t go into definitions of what "is" is.

And let`s not forget the outrage from the left when Nixon actually tried to win that war properly by bombing the hell out of the scum....We had such lovely people like actress from nepotism Jane Fonda even going so far as to take up arms alongside the commies all of which eventually resulted in the mass slaughter of 2 million people by the commies.. And who is the one person scumbags like Woodward and Bernstein still to this day curse out? The one guy who tried to stop that from happening; namely Richard M. Nixon, one of the greatest Presidents in my opinion this country ever had. This Felt, Woodward, Bernstein...I spit in their faces.

[slowpipe]

The Liberals are calling Felt a whistleblower.

How in the Sam Hill can you be the no. 2 man in the F.B.I. and in charge of day-to-day operations and be a
whistleblower?

I thought to be a whistleblower you had to be an underling.

Just more B.S. from the MSM.

I think he's a rat.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Can reputation set-to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no.
Reputation hath no skill in surgery then? no. What is reputation? a word. What
is that word, reputation? air. A trim reckoning!--Who hath it? he that
died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth be hear it? no. Is it
insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the
living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none
of it: reputation is a mere scutcheon:--and so ends my catechism.

[G.Mason]

"The one guy who tried to stop that from happening; namely Richard M. Nixon, one of the greatest Presidents in my opinion this country ever had. This Felt, Woodward, Bernstein...I spit in their faces."

I stand with you!

[syriacus]

It's ironic that the same Hal Holbrook who plays Felt in "All the President's Men," also plays a man who takes the law into his own hands (Caulfield) in "The Star Chamber."

[Enterprise]

"His actions were in service to himself."

Pretty much sums him up.

[snowsislander]

Why did The Post believe Mr. Felt? Was it because he was an FBI agent? Contrast that with how The Post treated me, a 26-year veteran of the FBI when I came forward with political allegations against then-President Clinton. They attacked me in many articles, writing that I could not possibly be telling the truth. They accused me of using second- and third-hand information when in fact I worked in the White House day after day for five years.

When Mr. Felt came to them with second- and third-hand information about a Republican president, they were not so surgical in their approach to the truth. And consider, Bob Woodward added to his own questionable legacy by getting in-depth interviews with a CIA director who was diagnosed to be in a deep coma.

Mr. Aldrich is correct: Mr. Felt and the Washington Post deserve only our disgust at their odious behavior.

[Enterprise]

I bet the hack-job hit-piece partisans at the Post still believe Felt but disbelieve Aldrich.

[SkyPilot]

When Mr. Felt came to them with second- and third-hand information about a Republican president, they were not so surgical in their approach to the truth. And consider, Bob Woodward added to his own questionable legacy by getting in-depth interviews with a CIA director who was diagnosed to be in a deep coma. Remarkably, Mr. Woodward sleepwalked through eight years of Bill and Hillary Clinton. There he was, sitting on the second biggest story of his career -- the emerging impeachment of Bill Clinton -- and he didn't act. Travelgate, FBI Filegate, missing Rose law firm documents found in Hillary's residence, the conviction of Webb Hubble, Vince Foster's mysterious death, the endless parade of White House bimbos ... all seemed to add up to nothing in the eyes of Mr. Woodward and his colleagues at The Post.

We were discussing the narrow catwalk Woodward is walking in this thread.

Woodward better be careful. This is 2005, not 1973. This is the age of TiVo, e-mail, blogging, Internet scrutiny, search engines, 24-hour cable, and Free Republic (thank you Jim).

Woodward knows he "embellished" and used "literary license" over the years to a large degree. The case of him allegedly interview Director Casey in 1987 from his deathbed while doctors testified that Bill Casey was aphasic is a glaring example. The dramatic "I believed" Woodward quotes of Casey if ridiculous, and we know now, impossible. Doctors came forward after wards to attest that Casey was in a coma at the time.

Bob Woodward is nervous on two counts. First, he is afraid of Mark Felt contradicting him. Woodward has already started the inoculation process by pursuing the track that Felt is 91 years old and possibly senile. Woodward: 'Throat' Not Competent for Book Deal". Moreover, Woodward said this vehemently yesterday on Imus.

Secondly, Woodward wants the windfall of profits from a renewed interest in Watergate to land in his bank account. He does not wish to share them with the ham fisted Felt family. I have no sympathy for the Felt's--the way they are trying to ca$h in is shameful. However, Mark Felt is currently living in his daughter's garage, while Woodward lives in a spectacular mansion in Georgetown, and owns several vacation properties. Woodward never shared his profits from Watergate that made him a millionaire with his sources, and it makes him look petty. I predict Woodward may make a very public contribution to Felt's care to soothe these festering wounds.

In any case, Woodward should sleep lightly. The white hot spotlight may attract more bugs to his little garden party than the adoring attention he so richly craves.

[Sacajaweau]

btt

[Enterprise]

I think Woodward is starting to get nervous too.

"Lucy, you got some 'splainin to do."

[leadpenny]

Bob Woodward is nervous on two counts.

The early footage, right after this story broke a few days ago, was of Woodward leading Bernstien into his G'town home. All I could think was they had to spend some time together to get their stories straight.