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Woodward Confirms Felt is "Deep Throat"

Posted on 05/31/2005 2:24:51 PM PDT by kcvl

Per MSNBC


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 31may2005; bolden; conein; deepthroat; feltgate; jfkhit; leonarddownie; markfelt; msmyakfest; overblown; traitor; vallee; watergate; whoopdeedingda; woodwardsucks; yawnagain
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To: onyx
Apparently, this source "scooped" Woodward and Berstein and went to Vanity Fair on his own?

WP has to be pissed; this totally takes all the attention of their book about Clinton.

241 posted on 05/31/2005 3:36:16 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: kcvl

Never trusted Bradlee! What a bunch of jerks we have in this country! When does the next civil war start? I am convinced we are better armed!


242 posted on 05/31/2005 3:36:28 PM PDT by defconw (GEORGE ALLEN IN 08)
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To: Mo1

Hmmm. So his faithfulness to the law was selective.


243 posted on 05/31/2005 3:36:42 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: nmh
nmh -- I think this is exactly what the Dems have up their sleeve -- trying a newer "watergate" on President Bush. I'm still hunting details to observe the "set-up" of this lastest master plan in Dem strategerie.

But what it does, in the meantime, make Republicans root through their party, their offices, and wonder about those working with them. This tells me, another shoe will be dropping from the Dem/MSM machinery soon.

And yes, they are hard-up for a plan to "save" their party. And all they seem to have is nothing but a bunch of "herstory" to draw upon -- strategies that worked in the past. And which won't work again... For Republicans, it's gotta be like herding cats, being overseers for the new adult-pre-school group.. in Washington DC...

244 posted on 05/31/2005 3:36:50 PM PDT by Alia
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To: kcvl


Not pretty?...lol.. all the better.


245 posted on 05/31/2005 3:36:50 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: onyx

Look here: Felt is a democrat!

I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED! Yeah right!


246 posted on 05/31/2005 3:37:49 PM PDT by defconw (GEORGE ALLEN IN 08)
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To: kcvl
He is a CRIMINAL

I totally agree with you.

Felt broke his oath by leaking classified information. Felt abused the power of his office. Period.

BTW, for those in the DC area, Chris Coor is talking about this now. Coor thinks he's a "villain" not a "hero"....but, he swimming against a strong tide of callers who believe the ends justify the means.

247 posted on 05/31/2005 3:38:40 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Mo1

Monica Crowley of MSNBC, former aide to Richard M. Nixon:

“The Deep Throat name did come up during our conversations and Nixon threw out a couple of names- but even he didn't know for sure who Deep Throat was.

“Nixon had a couple of theories himself. But Mark Felt's name did come up repeatedly while we were talking, but never in a serious context in terms of Felt being The Source. Nixon never referred to Deep Throat as that…he always referred to him as The Source.

“Nixon combed through a lot of documentation and went back in his own mind on who this could be. He dismissed the composite theory and always thought it was one person….Nixon always had a hard time understanding The Source's motivation- why someone would be this disloyal to the president and leak the story to the Washington Post reporters.

“Nixon knew Felt only vaguely.”

******


Jon Friedman of Marketwatch:

“The two most celebrated investigative reporters since Gutenberg just got scooped on their own source! And their journalistic mystique, as the keepers of the "Most Famous Secret" of modern times, has been dramatically devalued….

“And while we're at it, I can't imagine that the executives of the Washington Post Co. (WPO: news, chart, profile) are too thrilled, either. The media behemoth owns the Washington Post, Newsweek and Slate, and yet it was (apparently) scooped by Vanity Fair magazine, of all outlets -- on a story that the Washington Post "owned." The Post has been identified as the Watergate newspaper, enabling it to supersede the all-powerful New York Times on one story, at least.

“Not only has the greatest media mystery of the modern times, and maybe in history, apparently been solved. But a business opportunity has been squandered, too.”

******

Harry Smith, at cbsnews.com:

“As for Deep Throat being an FBI guy -- Nixon's response would not have been printable.”


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Tim Noah of Slate magazine, in a Washington Post online chat:

"It is kind of funny that the Washington Post would be scooped by a monthly magazine about the identity of Deep Throat. It's pretty unlikely that Bob Woodward wouldn't have known the Vanity Fair piece was in the works. Vanity Fair has an elaborate fact-checking process, and I would think a fact-checker at least attempted to contact Woodward to confirm some details in the story....

"When I spoke to Felt a few years ago, he said in no uncertain terms that for an FBI employee to leak details of a criminal investigation to a newspaper would be a terrible betrayal. Felt was a company man....I did think [Deep Throat] was Felt for a long time. Lately, though, I'd been thinking it was Fred Fielding!"


http://tinyurl.com/9otwq


248 posted on 05/31/2005 3:38:52 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Strategerist; Mo1; kcvl


WP deserves to be pissed.

Think it's ok to refer to Mark Felt by his MOST FITTING initials, MF? LOL.


249 posted on 05/31/2005 3:39:03 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: kcvl

I never considered it too big a deal who deep throat was, personally and know more about it right now than I ever have - I'm just posting stuff I'm seeing for the first time. ... I DO believe Nixon got screwed because he was trying to be overprotective of his staff - and that impeaching him was way over the top. I would have rather the Senate/House had looked for the treasonous leakers and stomp on them, but since that was never going to happen (and it hasn't and won't) it was ridiculous to be worried about this, and I haven't. If this was FBI leaking, as now appears possible, for whatever reason, I'm very angry they did not go this route - imprisoning the reporters for however long it took.

I imagine it possible that the reporters had Felt as a primary source, and decided they needed to hang on him a few miscellaneous items they had dug up elsewhere to throw people off his trail as well as to avoid revealing other secondary sources - and it sounds that would be completely consistent with everything but their "not a composite" contention - but right now, all I care about is using this against the Old Media louses if at all possible.

I suspect that within days, we'll hear that DT was partially a composite, but Felt was the primary personality.


Like I say, though, I'm far more hopeful of usint this as a way to demean "journalists" and their "professors" and "schools" than I am for the story, now. It would also vindicate Nixon's judgement - and that, I've always respected even when that resulted in his getting fried, essentially, merely for being loyal to his friends.


250 posted on 05/31/2005 3:39:19 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Strategerist; Mo1
I've posted the statement by President Reagan, I'm not a technical guy but he does use the phrase "full and unconditional pardon", even if there is a reason.

A lawyer might figure out if it really is full or just full in regards to that one part.

251 posted on 05/31/2005 3:39:55 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: onyx

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/evergreen/coursey/coursey.html

Felt's name comes up twice on tapes from Nixon's Oval Office, first on Oct. 19, 1972, and again on Feb. 28, 1973. On the first tape, Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman tells his boss, "...we know who leaked it."

"Somebody in the FBI?" the president asks.

"Yes, sir. Mark Felt," Haldeman says.

On the second tape, Nixon and Dean talk about Felt, and how people would view an FBI agent who snitched on his president.

"The informer is not wanted in our society," Nixon said. "That's the one thing people do sort of line up against.... They say, 'Well, that son-of-a-bitch informed. I don't want him around.' We wouldn't want him around, would we?"

Felt left the FBI in June 1973.


252 posted on 05/31/2005 3:40:08 PM PDT by maggief
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To: defconw
Let's shorten his name to his 'most fitting' initials = MF. lol Get it?
253 posted on 05/31/2005 3:40:21 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: kcvl
Although he knew the source's identity, Bradlee said, "I've never met Felt. I wouldn't know him if I fell on him."

Felt was the #2 man at the FBI and he didn't know who he was??

254 posted on 05/31/2005 3:40:56 PM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: defconw

News happens all the time. I don't think the timing is suspicious at all.


255 posted on 05/31/2005 3:41:37 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: maggiefluffs


Well, Nixon and Halderman knew it all along.

Guess they couldn't prove it.

MF is not a hero, nor a patriot.

He is one sorry MF.


Excellent find, maggie!


256 posted on 05/31/2005 3:41:54 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: onyx

Oh my ... LOL!


257 posted on 05/31/2005 3:41:58 PM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: maggiefluffs

Thanks!


258 posted on 05/31/2005 3:42:11 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl
The grandson is a deludinoid.

Watergate tore apart the nation. It was intended to rupture America's innocence and faith. And put forward a new "savior" - The Democratic Party. I remember it very clearly.

And now? Oh yea, Democrats break laws at will. Or only enforce "laws they agree with". And the MSM aids and abets them.

259 posted on 05/31/2005 3:42:29 PM PDT by Alia
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To: tiredoflaundry

DP was my maiden name monogram.
It's true. I'm Deep Phroat.


260 posted on 05/31/2005 3:42:29 PM PDT by SoVaDPJ
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