Woodward Confirms Felt is "Deep Throat"

[kcvl]

Per MSNBC

[followerofchrist]

"He's 91, his family wanted him to take credit for it before he died supposedly."

I wish the guy who made up the bigfoot legend had done the same.

Last night on Scarborough country, Pat Buchanon was debating with a man who called him, and the media, heroes. Pat said the left wing media was given damaging info on MLK, but refused to publish the info.

[restornu]

Felt Broke the Law as Nixon?

I would like to see the Timeline on this.....

1- The break in gang & aids

2- Dean & suits entered the picture

3- Felts movements before, during and after the even?

4- When did Nixion enter the picture

[Treader]

Hardly irrelevent, my FReind. President Dwight Eisenhower was the soul instrument of the SEATO Treaty. VP Richard Nixon was the lead diplomat for advocating this Treaty. JFK inherited this hot "policing action." Some conservative think tanks, lay the blame to President Harry S.Truman as the origin of this diplomatic juncture, which led to that "policing action." As I stated previously, check your facts, pal.

[Pelham]

That is certainly something to think about.

As far as I know the only time silver and gold became a major political issue was in the election of 1896, Bryan vs McKinley. Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech is about that very subject. But that was at least a decade before Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act.

Coin and currency is a tiny fraction of the American money supply. A much larger portion is made up of 'bank money'- book entries on bank ledgers, and an even greater portion is held as Treasury issues. Creating a dollar for every ounce of silver in the world wouldn't increase the money supply as fast as Congress simply raising the debt limit which authorizes the Treasury to issue more notes.

"Stripping the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the government at interest" doesn't make sense. Anyone who buys a T bill or a savings bond is "loaning money to the government at interest". Any individual, bank, corporation, or foreign government could have purchased Treasury issues and "loaned money to the government at interest". If the Fed was banned from purchasing Treasury debt it would have prevented the Fed from monetizing the debt, but that's hardly the stuff of assassinations. The Fed is now prohibited from buying newly issued Treasury paper, which accomplishes much the same thing, and we haven't seen an assassination to mark the occasion.

As for JFK wishing to leave South Vietnam, that's standing history on its head. The speech he was to give the afternoon he was shot reiterates our need to support South Vietnam:

"About 70 percent of our military assistance goes to nine key countries located on or near the borders of the Communist bloc--nine countries confronted directly or indirectly with the threat of Communist aggression--Viet-Nam, Free China, Korea, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Greece, Turkey, and Iran. No one of these countries possesses on its own the resources to maintain the forces which our own Chiefs of Staff think needed in the common interest. Reducing our efforts to train, equip, and assist their armies can only encourage Communist penetration and require in time the increased overseas deployment of American combat forces. And reducing the economic help needed to bolster these nations that undertake to help defend freedom can have the same disastrous result. In short, the $50 billion we spend each year on our own defense could well be ineffective without the $4 billion required for military and economic assistance."

http://www.newsday.com/ny-kennedynov22,0,142059.story?page=2

As you can see Vietnam is first on the list. Not one month before this Kennedy managed to get President Diem overthrown and assassinated, although assassination may not have been intended. Kennedy simply wanted the troublesome Diem out of the way. With Diem dead Vietnam was leaderless and our responsibility. When JFK took office there were a few hundred military advisors in Vietnam, by the time of his death there were over 16,000, one being a very close relative of mine. The claim that JFK had any intention of leaving is pure invention unsupported by what his administration was doing right up to the day he died.

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That all makes a certain amount of sense. But there's another factor. Nixon and Gray were purging all the old Hoover loyalists at the same time. These guys had resources beyond imagination, and many of them felt that Nixon was giving them the shaft.

Nah. The real FBI purge didn't take place until 1977, [though U.S. congressman Hale Boggs disappeared in Oct 1972]after Jimmy Carter had taken office. It included Carter's appointment of William H. Webster as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation after Hoover's May 1972 death and the installation of Admiral Stansfield Turner as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, followed in July 1979 when Carter asked for the formal resignations of all Cabinet members. He replaced Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal with G. William Miller, Adams with Neil E. Goldschmidt, and Schlesinger with Charles W. Duncan, Jr. In addition, Carter replaced Califano with Harris and appointed Moon Landrieu to replace Harris. Benjamin R. Civiletti replaced Bell, who left voluntarily. All other Cabinet members were reappointed.

FBI assistant director William Sullivan had been scheduled to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Sullivan was one of six top FBI officials who died in a six month period in 1977. Others who were due to appear before the committee who died included Louis Nicholas, special assistant to J. Edgar Hoover and Hoover's liaison with the Warren Commission; Alan H. Belmont, special assistant to Hoover; James Cadigan, document expert with access to documents that related to death of John F. Kennedy; J. M. English, former head of FBI Forensic Sciences Laboratory where Oswald's rifle and pistol were tested; and Donald Kaylor, FBI fingerprint chemist who examined prints found at the assassination scene.

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Not one month before this Kennedy managed to get President Diem overthrown and assassinated, although assassination may not have been intended.

You must not have known former DEA Special Operations Group chief Lou *Black Luigi* Conein, who lost his job followiung revelations that the DEA-SOG was considering eliminating several top-level drug traffickers including Panamiananian head of state Omar Torrijos "and his principal aide, a Mr. Noryago.*

Oh, and by the way, the first of the three attempts on JFK's life was to have taken place in Chicago on November 2nd, the week of the Diem regime place, where a reputedly mentally disturbed former Marine- not Oswald- was to fire on the presidential motorcade from an upper-story window of an apartment building... sound familiar? The gratitude shown by the Secret Service to the Chicago P.D. and to Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden, the first black agent to be appointed to the USSS presidential detail, was something less than notable.

Also a footnote: the Chicago cop who made the arrest and filed the Chicago P.D. report? That was Sgt. Danny Groth, the Chicago cop who kicked in the door of the *Chicago Seven* Black Panther apartment and shot Fred Hampton to rags with a Tommygun....

[expatguy]

Yuck!

I read that as "Woodward confirms he Felt Deep Throat"

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[archy]

Woodward lied. He said he would not confirm it until DT's death. Even in recent days he has said this.

And Felt was prosecuted for break-ins himself.

Felt was CONVICTED of charges relating to FBI *black bag* jobs of family members of those involved with the Weathermen. He was not pardoned until Ronald Reagan took office.

FYI, it's long been suspected that the *high White House source* was really a wiretap of the White House switchboard and that *Deep Throat* was an FBI [or other agency] spook with access to the Bureau's ElSur [ELectronic SURveillance] or COINTELPRO files.

[archy]

As an old Hoover crony, he probably had access to the secret files.

At least the ones that didn't burn in Hoover's lodge files. But as for the *Personal and Confidential* material kept by Hoover at the office and maiontained by his personal secretary, the recipient and custodian of those files after Hoover's death was...Mark Felt.

You'll want to check out the FReepthread *here*.