Deep Throat to be named

San Francisco Chronicle | Leah Garchik

[billhilly]

JOHN DEAN IS DEEP THROAT. HE IS FINALLY COMING CLEAN AS THE BACK STABBING DUAL AGENT. WHY HAS LINDA TRIPP BEEN TREATED SO BADLY AND HE IS LIKE A MEDIA HERO? IT JUST MAKES ME SICK.....................Easy. He went left.

[tjg]

In high school she was a republican movement radical. She selects whatever movement most convieniently serves her lust for power. She landed in radical liberalism because it doesn't require accountability, and is therefore most convienient.

Both Clintons utter the platitude that most immediatly furthers thier political agenda. That agenda has a single purpose; to promote the Clintons. Nothing else.

Thanks for your thoughts on my post.

[Pelham]

Anyone who thinks John Dean has any credibility should pick up a copy of Silent Coup, the most intriguing look at the Watergate scandal ever written.

Dean is certainly dirty, and very likely was the organizer of the Watergate breakins for his own purposes. The amazing irony is that Dean was selected by Nixon to investigate Watergate, and from that perch Dean was able manipulate events to hide his own deeds and implicate Nixon. Even G Gordon Liddy has been persuaded by the conclusions of the Silent Coup authors, and says he thought he went to prison protecting Nixon, when in fact his silence protected John Dean.

[Pelham]

The sort of speculations that abound in books such as Silent Coup, which implicates Dean as the prime mover in the DNC break-in, would have been subject to more discerning tests if those transcripts still existed -- as would many other theories of why the DNC was chosen as a target

Silent Coup does spell out why the DNC office was chosen- it even explains why the particular desk was chosen to be bugged.

Mo Dean, before she was John's wife, had been a call girl with the Xaviera Hollander group working out of the DNC. From Mo, John Dean knew which desk the call girls were sent from- bugging that desk could provide some very useful dirt on Democrat candidates and operatives. Blackmail sort of dirt. This is in fact the desk the bug was set in on the first breakin. The motive for the second breakin, as described in the book, was to retrieve Mo's page out of the "hooker book".

[I. M. Trenchant]

Sorry if I was unclear. I merely meant that the transcripts that Strachan shredded, if they were now available, would bear on the veracity of what is claimed in Silent Coup. My understanding is that the authors of the book are currently in court defending themselves against Dean's libel charges, and that the authors are prohibited from further sale of the book until the case is settled. I know I tried, about a year or two ago, to purchase a copy of the book at an Online website, but the authors wrote to say that they could not oblige because they were under a court order. That being said, I went to my local public library and obtained a copy of the book. It was a well-written book, and surprisingly benign in its references to Nixon. As best I can recall, it had a Foreword by Roger Morris, the author of Haig, and again, I was very surprised that Morris, who was vehemently pathological in his every reference to Nixon in Haig, was relatively gentle with Nixon in this Foreword, almost as if his vitriol had been diluted by a conviction that Silent Coup cast his nemesis in a different, less forbidding if still quite negative light.

[Pelham]

Car crash.

[Pelham]

It's also interesting that the two authors said that they were political liberals, who had no inclination to cover for Nixon. In fact their initial interest was in ferreting out a CIA and DIA connections to the events (which they never could establish, but which they still suspect exists)- and you will recall that they wrote about the Navy "spy" that the Joint Chiefs activated in the White House, when they could see Kissinger using the back channel to contact the Red Chinese, (it turned out to be part of Nixon's "opening to China")

They initially had John Dean as an advisor for their research. One reason they began to suspect Dean is that he became hostile and uncooperative when they asked him about some facts seemed to point to him, which they didn't understand- and they didn't mean to accuse him of anything. His odd reaction is what first made them look at the evidence in a new way.

[Chemnitz]

I appreciate what you are saying. No one has been quite so self-serving as the Clintons. Not even LBJ could top them. I do think there is an ideological center to both of them. However, it is hard to sort it all out, considering their reckless history.

I am convinced that Clinton has been propped up and rescued many times simply because powerful interests need someone as weak and needy as he is.

[I. M. Trenchant]

Your reminder that Dean's awkwardness had led the authors of Silent Coup to have heightened suspicions about Dean's behaviour is reminiscent of Dean's own heightened suspicions when observing Nixon's awkward efforts to speak into a hidden bug that was concealed in a potted plant in his office. It's all in the details. I regret Gore Vidal didn't use his suspicious mind and connections in uncovering CIA and other connections to 'Watergate'.

In a momentary appearance on Hardball yesterday, one that seemed oddly curtailed if not censored by CNBC, Vidal may have opened a can-of-worms. Among other things, Vidal mentioned a determined coverup of the FBI's foreknowledge -- well in advance of 911 -- of the training of several Arab pilots in the U.S., and of the prosecution of some FBI agents who are being defended by David Schippers who prosecuted Clinton in his impeachment.

I may have misunderstood but I think Vidal suggested that there is yet another coverup underway in Afghanistan, where it is said that the CIA is more interested in a pipeline for carrying Caspian oil to the Indian Ocean than it is in the tracking of El Queda. Endlessly interesting intrigues.

[tjg]

Just read this is in Peggy Noonans column. I thought I'd pass it along since it's germain to our exchange.

".....his labor secretary Robert Reich said he thought Mr. Clinton enjoyed talking so much because the sound of it made him feel like he had real beliefs."

[Chemnitz]

I think one can have no real beliefs and be an anarchist. Bill Clinton fits that mold. He never really governed. He just chased women. Everyone propped him up and made him look good: media, political pals, the GOP. Lady Macbeth made the decisions. She was going to work for Saul Alinsky. That shows real ideology.