Posted on 05/31/2005 2:24:51 PM PDT by kcvl
Per MSNBC
Could he have a guilty conscience? After all, he did break the law and made the FBI look incompetent. The guy is now 91 and probably thinks he is a hero, like his kids have announced. He's no hero. He's a leaker of secret info. Watch the liberals go crazy with joy over this one. They love making Pubbies look bad, even though the event is now 30 years old.
If I were anywhere near that punk grandson of Felt's, I'd probably get arrested for slapping the p*** out of him :-(
Isn`t it amazing how to this day liberals still harp on Watergate like it was the crime of the century, yet Clinton and his 10 gazillion gates are all completely ignored? Where`s Bob Woodwards book on Clinton? Where`s the movie "All the Presidents men part 2"? The fact is liberals hated Nixon because he was a Republican who tried to win the war against the liberal heroes the communists, the communists that the liberals join forces with to slaughter our men and women of the military.
Then Nixon comes along and says "Wait a minute! Why aren`t we bombing the hell out of them?" Which he did and liberals went ape-sh*t, so what did they do? They ripped Nixon to pieces in the press as revenge. If liberals were so concerned about "corruption" then where were they when Clinton was pulling stuff like Watergate practically every second?
A couple of thoughts on 'Deep Throat':
First, wasn't Woodward & Bernstiens' first reaction at hearing Felt had been outted interesting? They denied. They refused to confirm. Further, they have lied about him in the past (little details like that he was a chain smoker). In other words, they covered up. Isn't it interesting?
Second, neither Felt, his family, the guy who wrote the piece for Vanity Fair, or Vanity Fair itself ever contacted Woodward & Bernstein for a reaction prior to the piece going to print. Clearly nobody trusted them to keep this quiet until the VF piece was printed, and surely with good reason. At the first hint that Felt was going to help someone in announcing his identity as Deep Throat, they would have rushed a piece into the next edition of the Washington Post as quickly as possible to get another 15 minutes of fame. So much for journalistic integrity.
Third, despite Felt's family's contentions, the man is no hero. He did what he did out of spite and envy. If he'd been a hero, he wouldn't have hid behind a couple of hacks for 30+ years. He'd have gone before congress, or openly contacted journalists to make his claims. No, he's a vindictive tattletale without the intestinal fortitude to stand up for a principle.
Many hated Nixon because of what happen with Algar Hiss
Good thinking! Always the double standard.
And like southack wrote in one of his brilliant posts...
Linda Trip was blasted by the same media for doing much the same thing for which MF is now being praised.
Reagan pardoned Felt about 20-minutes into the 1st term.
"Follow the money"
Who said that?
Like I believe anything this pond scum says. Sorry, but I don't trust Woodward or Bernstein. After the Clinton years, "for the good of the nation" took on a whole meaning.
These two are just the scurvey left that preceded MoveOn dot org and Michael Moore.
Brokjaw is "explaining" it to us now. lol!
A figment of their imagination.
I saw this and Liddy said he thought and still thinks Deep Throat was a composite. He did not dismiss their sourcing at all, as is implied with the "figment" comment.
see 457 above - Nixon actually testified on Felt's behalf and this many years after Nixon's knowing that Felt was Deep Throat and a back stabber.
Nixon will come to be known as one of our best. He knew how sausage was made and he accepted his fate.
Rush, to cite one!
Nothing happens in a vaccum, especially in DC.
I am trying to look at the big picture, but not sure what it is. Unless one is a serious news/political junkie or old enough to remember Watergate, the identity of DT is probably a curious factoid of history.
The coverage it is getting seems to outweigh the actual value.
About 2 months ago Keith Olberman ended a Friday show with a DT teaser. His identity would be known soon said idiot man, he can't tell what he knows, but he knows. It was a matter of days. It never materialized.
So why now? Has this been known in DC and the issue was timing instead of substance?
Current events? Slow news week but:
McCain mutiny
Bolton
Filibusters
New Bubba book
Zarqari (Yes, I know it is spelled wrong--too lazy to google) may or may not be wounded/near death/out of Iran
OR is something else about to break (either way)?
Just a few random thoughts. I have no answers. Has nopardons weighed in on this?
I agree!
They absolutely lied about, at least, some of it because it has been disputed today by Republicans and Democrats who hate one another.
Tom Borchov is on Hardball and mentioned that W&B were Metro reporters before Watergate
... and he figured it was MF all along.
Yeah, right!
I remember reading a piece a long time ago (I mean YEARS ago) wherein the author stated that Bernstein's father had it in for Nixon.
Anyone?
So why now? Has this been known in DC and the issue was timing instead of substance?
Very interesting info about Olberman
And yes I do question the timing of this and how ABC cut off the President's press conference to talk about an article that wasn't verified at the time
Information was traveling from Felt, the No. 2 official at the FBI, to the news columns of The Washington Post via reporter Bob Woodward, snippets from a criminal investigation that led ultimately to the president.
The Post on its Web site Tuesday quoted Woodward as saying that Felt helped the newspaper at a time of tense relations between the White House and much of the FBI hierarchy.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died shortly before the Watergate break-in. Felt himself had hopes that he would be the next FBI director, according to the Post, but President Nixon instead appointed an administration insider, assistant attorney general L. Patrick Gray, to the post.
Felt's ambition was no secret, as White House tape recordings from the Watergate scandal show.
Six days after the break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee, President Nixon and his co-conspirators discussed ordering the FBI to shut down its probe, on grounds that the investigation would interfere with a CIA operation.
"Mark Felt wants to cooperate because he's ambitious," White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman said.
"Yeah," the president replied.
The Post's executive editor during Watergate, Ben Bradlee, said Tuesday it's a good thing for the country that Felt's identity has finally been revealed.
Bradlee has never met Felt, but "I would thank him" if the two men ever did get together, Bradlee said.
Felt had a storied career at the bureau, one that also had its share of controversy.
A jury found him guilty in 1980 of violating civil rights by authorizing warrantless searches at homes of friends and relatives of left-wing fugitives during the early 1970s. President Reagan pardoned him, along with another former FBI official convicted in the case. Felt and his co-defendant had argued they were authorized by their boss, then-acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III, to approve break-ins without first going to court for a warrant.
In breaking the story that Felt was "Deep Throat," Vanity Fair magazine wrote of his ascent inside the bureau run at the time by J. Edgar Hoover.
"In a move to rein in his power-seeking head of domestic intelligence, William C. Sullivan, Hoover promoted Felt to a newly created position overseeing Sullivan, vaulting Felt to prominence," the magazine wrote.
A magazine named Felt as the likely Deep Throat in 1974, prompting a denial from Felt and a threat to sue that he never followed up on.
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