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What Everybody's Missing About Deep Throat (He Would Have Buried Watergate)
Self | June 2, 2005 | JohnRobertson

Posted on 06/02/2005 8:21:22 PM PDT by John Robertson

While many MSM'ers (sorry, most) are lionizing this guy as "a hero," someone who "did what he had to do," something big is being missed.

Our side has pointed out that he authorized/engineered illegal breakins himself...

And that he turned on the Whitehouse because he didn't get the top FBI job. Now think about that....

Felt became a snitch because he didn't get something he wanted! He was an opportunist, plain and simple (and it runs in the family, apparently, as they shamelessly say they urged the old man to do it so they could all get some money). Yeah, a real hero.

But here's what I haven't seen....

If they had made him the head of the FBI, he WOULD NOT have turned on the Whitehouse.

In fact, as head of the FBI....

HE WOULD HAVE HELPED THEM BURY WATERGATE!


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KEYWORDS: bernstein; deepthroat; felt; feltgate; markfelt; nixon; watergate; woodward
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To: Torie

I do NOT think that book on the Bush admin. preparing for war was "complimentary."


101 posted on 06/02/2005 9:18:22 PM PDT by John Robertson (They think I'm working away, but I'm really Freeping.)
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To: REDWOOD99

So? Gordon Liddy once said that if you're on a train you don't care about the engineer's personality. The question you want answered is "can he drive the train." Nixon could. Who could possibly care that he was paranoid, conniving, narcissistic (I take exception to that one), anti-semitic (his law-partner & close friend Len Garment would disagree, as would several other Jews, though he was emphatically antiZionist).


102 posted on 06/02/2005 9:19:48 PM PDT by Mach9 (.)
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To: John Robertson
"Flawed hero, but an exceptional man, who showed great courage, often. We will see him rehabilitated, in time."

My sentiments as well. His family and history deserve at least that much, and I have a feeling that in the end, the greed of his assassins and detractors will do just that.
103 posted on 06/02/2005 9:19:55 PM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and the rest can go to hell.)
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To: Mach9

I am not sure Woodward was on the Kerry campaign beat. He is an executive editor now. I wish he had been. By the way, I think the Washington Post is a fine newspaper, not as fine as the Wall Street Journal, but better than most.


104 posted on 06/02/2005 9:19:59 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: John Robertson

OK, different strokes for different folks.


105 posted on 06/02/2005 9:20:47 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: John Robertson
I always wondered why the CIA would be involved in the DNC Berglary at the Watergate Headquarters. I truly suspect that they were looking for Soviet Spies inside the DNC as well as any dirt it could use to bring down those they suspected as spies.

I know G. Gordon Liddy tells the story about the DNC having connections to a Call Girl operation across the street from the Watergate Complex, but why would the CIA be involved in a domestic issue like prostitution?

106 posted on 06/02/2005 9:21:51 PM PDT by MJY1288 ( By Comparison...."Dingy" Harry Reid makes Tom Daschle look like a Statesman)
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To: Torie
Woodward is a Republican. He has said so. Whether he still is, I don't know. But he is no liberal. That is silly.

My brother likes to tell people that he is a registered dem .. but he is no Dem .. he's a Reagan Conservative

107 posted on 06/02/2005 9:23:30 PM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: Torie
He flat out lied about his "death bed conversation" with Bill Casey in Veil.

He also talks to people by telling them they won't be quoted and then he quotes them by saying things like "Oh, I was able to confirm what you said from other sources," so I quoted you.

And he's spent the last 30 years on TV, telling anybody who will listen that "No, this scandal/rumor/problem is not as big as MY story, Watergate."

His entire existence is tied to this one story - and now we find out he was just as dishonest in this story. And he's going to do or say whatever it takes to justify every word he's written about it for the last 30 years.

But he's in trouble now because we have access to information now -- and some people are going to be checking.

If you want my opinion, the reason it took him three days to come up with this LAME explanaton today in the Post it's because he thought Felt would die and couldn't refute a word he said so he spent 3 days "editing" the obituary and story he and Bradlee had written in anticipation of Felt's death.

108 posted on 06/02/2005 9:23:57 PM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Howlin

Howlin, your thoughts on post #106 ???


109 posted on 06/02/2005 9:23:59 PM PDT by MJY1288 ( By Comparison...."Dingy" Harry Reid makes Tom Daschle look like a Statesman)
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To: Torie

Granted--the Post has improved since the 60's, marginally, whereas the Times has deteriorated more than marginally. It's still a liberal rag--and nowhere near the WSJ. As to Kerry, a story's a story. If Woodward's the great truthteller, how did he miss all the signs?


110 posted on 06/02/2005 9:25:09 PM PDT by Mach9 (.)
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To: Howlin

What was lame about the Woodward piece in your view?


111 posted on 06/02/2005 9:25:28 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: anyone

I heard someone mention the possibility that G.Gordon Liddy might be 'Deep Throat', is this possible?


112 posted on 06/02/2005 9:26:25 PM PDT by bigtoechz
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To: Mach9

He was not writing about the campaign as far as I know. That was not his gig. As I said, I wish he had been.


113 posted on 06/02/2005 9:26:27 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: MJY1288

Did you ever wonder why in all the stories they wrote and their book, Woodward and Bernstein never once trashed the CIA?

I think Ben Bradlee and Woodward ARE spooks.

I've never heard about the spies, but I thought all those guys were "retired" Cubans, am I wrong?


114 posted on 06/02/2005 9:26:42 PM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Mach9

I agree with Liddy. Nixon was a good president. Our disagreement is on the definition of "hero." As for the narcissism and anti-semitism, listen to the tapes.


115 posted on 06/02/2005 9:27:11 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
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To: Howlin

"I think Ben Bradlee and Woodward ARE spooks."

I'm lovin' this thread :)


116 posted on 06/02/2005 9:28:01 PM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: Howlin
He flat out lied about his "death bed conversation" with Bill Casey in Veil.

I know that one is controversial, but is it now beyond per adventure that he was lying? Is that now accepted as part of the historical record?

117 posted on 06/02/2005 9:28:38 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: REDWOOD99

The Space Shuttle wouldn't have blown up and the Red Sox would not have won the World Series.


118 posted on 06/02/2005 9:29:01 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: MJY1288

For one thing, the burglars were EX CIA & FBI; one (McCord, former FBI) was working for the RNC, and Liddy (former FBI) was working for CRe-EP. The other two were ex CIA (Hunt & Bernard can't remember). They knew about covert activities and what to look for but weren't acting on behalf of either government organization.

The prostitution thing was something Liddy had suggested for the Democrat Convention in '72 in Miami. He'd wanted to lure Dems onto a boat full of ladies of the evening, then catch them. He got the idea from the Dems, but the break-in had nothing to do with prostitution (on either side).


119 posted on 06/02/2005 9:30:36 PM PDT by Mach9 (.)
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To: Torie
I think the Washington Post is a fine newspaper

So you like the house organ of the Democratic Party, do you? Hmmmmm........

120 posted on 06/02/2005 9:30:37 PM PDT by expatpat
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