Professor, students identify 'Deep Throat'

UPI ^ | 4/22/03

[yooper]

"Everything that we have, we show there's a document," Gaines said."

Pretty poor grammar for a professor.

You all will pardon me for not taking this guy seriously as a result of his use of the English language. It was Colson.

[elbucko]

I don’t know about that one, did Mo know Woodward earlier?

I don't know. If they did, under circumstances possible, would they admit it?

”Deepthroat” and Woodward went to college together,..

The Wash Post would not have let Woodward loose with just a "high school grad" turned D.C. fluff girl.

I'm not saying 100% that it is Mo Dean. I do believe it is her because she and John had the most to loose if the truth came out and getting that book was the "truth" of the break-in.

I also believe Woodward and Bernstein saw a chance to make press history and they ran with it. They became famous, rich and president slayers with the dirt from a D.C. hooker. How could they admit to that?

The "Wood'Stein's" changed modern journalism as Joel Klein's, "Primary Colors" illustrates. Rather than report in real time , as a reporter should, they now learn all the dirt, save it up for a book and make some bucks. Maybe a movie. The public gets the news in the book cycle today, not the news cycle. Agan, "Follow the money".

Until "Deepthroat" confesses, I'll stand my ground with "Mo".

Regards, Buck.

[KeyWest]

< tinfoil hat>Woodward & Bernstein made up 'Deep Throat' - thye had a bunch of unconfirmed rumors, so they invented 'Deep' and sold the whole thing to their editors.< /tinfoil hat>

Woodward did that with Casey, which is where this theory came from. I would not put it in the tinfoil category since it was done by him later. And, unfortunately, is not an unusual practice by members of the press. Think "high government sources".

[SauronOfMordor]

The assumption is that "Deep Throat" was a single individual, rather than a composite of several sources

[latrans]

OK, nobody else picked him, but I go with Ben Stein.

[Southack]

Berstein Blasts Professor Over Deep Throat Probe

Berstein stands to lose quite a bit if his source is revealed to be a phony, or if his source turns out to be non-credible, or if his source turns out to have violated Attorney-Client privilege.

In the spirit of this thread, I'll take the latter, and therefor let me be the very FIRST to call for the disbarrment of Fred Fielding by every legal Bar Association under which his credentials currently exist.

[n-tres-ted]

Put the facts reported in "Silent Coup" (written by two capable Dem investigative reporters) together with what this professor has checked out, and I tend to conclude that Fielding is Deep Throat. The "not to be revealed until death" pledge by Woodward/Bernstein fits with the confidentiality/disbarment concern, not to mention the Post's complicity in the breach of attorney-client privilege. Yes, it's still important, because the media has never come close to reporting the truth of the matter that "Silent Coup" revealed long ago. But that would require conceding that Dean was the villain, while Nixon and his staff were the dupes.

[GretchenEE]

Is this important any more?

Unsolved mysteries, such as, Where is Saddam?, are always intriguing to some. I think it's worth knowing who the person is, and so did Woodward's source; his only restriction on Woodward was that his identity not be revealed till after he was dead.

[GretchenEE]

I did not even know that Monica had a past with USA Today!

I have been appalled, shocked, I tell you (seriously) about the media's current use of misplaced modifiers, and the lack of commas obscuring a reporter's meaning. This deterioration in professional journalism has magnified bad reporting since cable TV and the Internet took away editing time and effort. In other words, their sloppiness shows, very painfully. Some of the results are quite laughable.

[Dolphy]

Put the facts reported in "Silent Coup" (written by two capable Dem investigative reporters) together with what this professor has checked out, and I tend to conclude that Fielding is Deep Throat.

If one or more of the burglars ended up employed by a business with which Fielding was connected would this be added evidence?

[Southack]

Bump to your point.

[n-tres-ted]

Might be. The way I see it, the burglars were essentially working for Dean (that is certainly the view of the authors of Silent Coup), and so was Fielding (in the White House Counsel's office). So Fielding might have been persuaded to do them a favor afterwards to keep their allegience, etc.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Old, relevant thread BUMP.