Posted on 07/01/2005 10:20:58 PM PDT by CHARLITE
In "The Secret Man," to be published next week by Simon & Schuster, Woodward writes that he learned in 1976 from then-assistant attorney general Stanley Pottinger that Felt, who had been the number two man at the FBI, had given himself away while testifying before a grand jury. Asked "Were you Deep Throat," Felt initially said "No," but his manner alerted Pottinger to the probability that he was lying.
Woodward also reveals for the first time the address of the famous Virginia parking garage where most of his meetings with Deep Throat were conducted: 1401 Wilson Boulevard in Rosslyn. The garage entrance he used is now 1820 North Nash Street.
"The Secret Man" includes a chapter written by Woodward's Watergate reporting partner, Carl Bernstein. In it, Bernstein recounts a conversation the two reporters deliberately excluded from their 1974 book, "All the President's Men."
In the fall of 1972, Bernstein writes, as he and Woodward were about to write the first story pointing to former Attorney General John Mitchell's involvement in the scandal, he realized that President Richard M. Nixon was likely to be impeached. Woodward "looked at me for a second or two in the strangest way," Bernstein writes, then said, "Jesus, I think you're right."
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This book is mis-titled.
It should be: "All About Me"
We didn't even have that much on Nixon's involvement.
What, in truth, was the 'horror' of Watergate? It was a second-rate burglary after all without the slam-dunk proof of the Clinton high crimes and misdemeanors.
The contrast between the treatment of Watergate and Monica figures is staggering.
What EVIL compels the Democrats to destroy, destroy, destroy? They took out Nixon and tried to avoid confirming Ford in order to stage a coup. They went after Reagan/Bush on Iran/Contra. They threatened impeachment if Bush 41 went to Baghdad thus we left the Iraqi people hanging and slaughtered by Saddam's death squads. They've threatened impeachment of W since before he was sworn in and they're pushing this questionable memo as a basis. It's a SICKNESS.
I'll never forgive the Bush administration for not investigating Felt/Deep Throat for violations of law. It's just one more blight on their mediocre record along with the wide-open borders. Just because you blow the wistle, doesn't mean you can do it through illegal means. Someone needs to ask Linda Trip about that.
(1) stenographers for the FBI and assorted powerful liberals. (2) High level press release recipients.
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