Posted on 06/01/2005 4:40:18 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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.
This is one MF who ought to be in jail. Something ought to be done to extract reparations from this MF and his family.
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However, I just love the "investigators" who have fingered so many people wrongly over the course of the years.
Look at some examples from Wikipedia (as of yesterday):
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.
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Someone from Wikipedia gets partial credit!
also, check out this School of "Journalism" take:
"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."
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How about how well the Investigative Journalism classes at UofI can really get to the bottom of things...
From another of their web sites: http://deepthroatuncovered.com/
How students solved one of America's top mysteries
After a four-year investigation, students at the University of Illinois have determined the identity of Deep Throat, the most elusive, anonymous news source in history: Fred Fielding, deputy counsel to former President Richard Nixon
Updated 11/21/2003
Wrong yet again...
Amazing.
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More amazing is the supreme confidence these academics have in their results.
These are the type of people who are writing "history books" now - "investigating" such things as Jefferson's sex life, etc. ,as well as seeking out stories for Newsweak, CBS 60min, and the NYSlimes.
It is important for us to to recognize their enormous fallibility.
Many people have been slandered by these "investigative journalists" inspired by their @#$%^ "professors" over the years.
To me/ For ME - this is the real story of Watergate.
I loathe them all nowadays.
FRAUDcasters.
I think Felt was kinda an open secret. Buchanan would tell people it was Felt but never on the air or formally because he didn't want any libel action.
This strikes me as the crux of felt's ugly swarmy traitorous actions. And if this situation was switched with a demodummy president and a demodummy deep throat, well the media would be screaming that felt was motivated by sour apples then and he and his family are motivated by $$$$$$$$$$$$ and fame now.
But then the rules for other-than-demodumies are always different....
That's interesting. I had not ever heard that.
Felt essentially did what Pollard did.
Don't forget Carter(the failure from the seventies) boycotted the olympics, further emasculating ourselves when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.
"It's interesting that in people's lives, they sometimes come to a fork in the road and decide to do the right thing. What motivated him to do the right thing?"
You mean he imposed his "morality" on the political process? What horrors! Isn't that contrary to the liberal Separation of Church and State point of view? Gee, where did these morals of his to do the "right" thing come from?
I think Hillary got to the family to bring it to the forfront so she can say she worked on the impeachment panel to help her in 08
Said it before: Katie is full of crap.
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