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Posted on 06/30/2005 5:10:30 PM PDT by wagglebee
A new book about "Deep Throat" by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward says W. Mark Felt denied being the Watergate source during a 1976 grand jury appearance, according to USA Today.
The book, "The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat," says Felt hastily withdrew his denial when a Justice Department official reminded him he was under oath, according to the newspaper, which said it obtained a copy from a Virginia bookstore that mistakenly put copies out for sale. The book is due in stores next Wednesday.
According to USA Today, the book says Woodward suspected that someone at the Post was leaking information about his sources to the Nixon White House. No leaker was found.
The book also identifies the garage where Woodward and Felt, a high-ranking FBI official, conducted their clandestine late-night meetings. The garage is "behind and underneath" 1401 Wilson Boulevard in the Rosslyn section of Arlington, Va., Woodward wrote.
In the grand jury incident, Woodward wrote that Felt's actions enabled the Justice Department official who was questioning him to realize that he had been "Deep Throat."
A grand juror asked whether Felt was "Deep Throat" and Felt replied, "No."
The Justice Department official, Stanley Pottinger, offered to have the question and answer withdrawn as being outside the bounds of the investigation, after reminding Felt that he had sworn to tell the truth.
"Flushed," Woodward writes, "Felt very rapidly requested, 'Withdraw the question."'
Pottinger did not reveal what he had figured out because he did not think it appropriate to divulge a reporter's confidential source, Woodward wrote.
Woodward wrote that Felt was motivated by a desire to protect the FBI, disgust with the Nixon White House, reverence for former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the thrill of "the game."
That's all.
Telling the truth, that is.
Even now with all of the protections, it's not a really good idea to be a whistleblower.
Cut him some slack.
Besides Nixon was a liberal scumbag that gave us price controls, relations with commie China, the beginning of the end of Taiwan, Medicare, and other inane and socialistic nonsense.
his daughter looks like jane fonda.
that's another crime!
This just proves that he's a Democrat, and that the claim that he was a Republican was false all along.
From ear to ear?
It is my understanding that Felt was convicted of having something to do with illegal break-ins of political enemies long after Watergate happened. What was he blowing the whistle at?
Granted, Reagan pardoned him.
Put this old scumbag in solitary until he croaks.
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Those in the area - would that be Wilson Blvd at Oak St? What office building was that?
I'm trying to remember, because we lived near there, but it was too long ago to recall.
Interesting...
Interesting...
How did Nixon get Medicare enacted 3 years before he was elected?
Felt was leaking because Nixon didn't appoint him to replace Hoover at FBI.
Some "whistle blower"...
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1401+Wilson+Boulevard,+arlington,+va&spn=0.034142,0.060665&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1401+Wilson+Boulevard,+arlington,+va&spn=0.005484,0.007583&t=k&hl=en
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