Posted on 05/31/2005 2:24:51 PM PDT by kcvl
Per MSNBC
This is one MF who ought to be in jail. Something ought to be done to extract reparations from this MF and his family.
I just love the "investigators" who have fingered so many people wrongly over the course of the years.
Look at some examples from Wikipedia:
First cut:
Over the years, political observers have suggested many possible candidates as Deep Throat, including FBI director L. Patrick Gray, Nixon advisor Alexander Haig, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and even former U.N. ambassador (and later president) George Bush, Sr..
[I never suspected any of these, personally - but had no idea myself who else to suspect]
Second cut:
Leading candidates
Generally acknowledged to be the three leading candidates are W. Mark Felt, Fred Fielding, and William H. Rehnquist.
also, from this article:
The 7 finalists are listed here: http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/spike/deepthroat/
Patrick Buchanan, speechwriter and special assistant to the president.
David Gergen, speechwriter, then served as press spokesman for President Reagan.
Jonathan Rose, Attorney for White House relations.
Raymond Price, head speechwriter.
Stephen Bull, a special administrative assistant to Nixon.
Fred Fielding, top assistant to John Dean.
Gerald L. Warren, deputy press secretary under Nixon.
Many people have been slandered by these "investigative journalists" over the years. These are the same type of people "investigating" Jefferson, etc.
I loathe them all nowadays.
FRAUDcasters.
Here's the Vanity Fair article that reveals Felt at Deep Throat:
http://www.vanityfair.com/pdf/pressroom/advance1.pdf
Sounds like Felt was investigating the White House was told to back down after Gray left as director. It also suggests that Nixon and Haldeman had a very good idea who Deep Throat was. From the gist of the article, it sounds like Felt has dementia and will be unable to clear this up.
I am still suspicious that the whole thing went down much differently than the dramatic way Woodward described it. Felt said "I'm the guy THEY used to call Deep Throat"
So why didn't Felt wait for Woodstein to out him? He'd waited this long.
"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.
Well his family says differently now .. calling him a hero
What if it isn't Felt?
Let me guess. The "few years ago" was during the Clinton administration. Of course, it is a betrayal when a Dem is president.
I always though it was Pat Buchanan.
Didn't Woodward say he would not divulge the identity until DT was deceased?
I agree completely! IF he was so interested in Justice, then he should have come forward, in PUBLIC and made his accusations. Instead, he became a back-stabber and leaked information to a pair of leftist twits. I never like Redford and what's his name anyway and thought they were terrible reporters.
So there!
G
Alia, your instincts are keen. Hillary (with Reno's obeisance) diddling with files comes to mind. I have always "felt" that she culled records for a well timed release.
Yeah, but he think he also said he would tell if DT released him at anytime.
You too?
UNBELIEVABLE
Woodward has been saying this for years...and also ALL DAY TODAY until a few hours ago. hmmmm
Woodward, now a Post assistant managing editor, said he is writing an article for Thursday's newspaper that will provide a personal account of his and Bernstein's experience in covering Watergate. Bernstein left the Post in 1976 and is now a freelance writer.
Woodward said Felt helped The Post at a time of tense relations between the White House and much of the FBI hierarchy. He said the Watergate break-in came shortly after the death of legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Felt's mentor, and that Felt and other bureau officials wanted to see an FBI veteran promoted to succeed Hoover.
Felt himself had hopes that he would be the next FBI director, but Nixon instead appointed an administration insider, assistant attorney general L. Patrick Gray, to the post.
It is MF. It is very consistent, and someone did a load of work about this some time ago. One of the links I've posted makes him one of hte three most plausible - I think Wikipedia article.
Felt is a Klinton-like scumbag.
Watergate tore apart a nation and demoralized it - and contributed greatly to the "malaise" of the '70s. It was greatly overblown, and we are now likely to discover that the pieces all fit: that it was a blatantly political ploy to hurt Republicans.
MF MF.
His family found out and waited until he was senile to out him. Nice people. REAL nice people.
Ditto to the "fishy" smell.
I was wearing my tinfoil hat!
President Reagan gave him a pardon back in like 1980 or so.
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