Posted on 06/01/2005 9:36:21 PM PDT by smoothsailing
'Deep Throat' revealed: Motivation matters
Thursday, June 2, 2005
The Hollywood-ized story that the mainstream media are offering of one W. Mark Felt is that the "Deep Throat" of Watergate infamy was a hero who saved the nation from Richard Nixon. The back story is a tad different.
There might not have been a president resigning in disgrace had Mr. Felt -- now 91 and once the No. 2 guy at the FBI -- not offered a road map and confirmation of information gathered by The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. But Felt became one of their critical sources not so much out of a sense of honor, duty or patriotism as it was to satisfy his desire for retribution.
As veteran Washington columnist Bob Novak reminds, hell hath no fury like a G-man passed over for the FBI's top spot. President Nixon tapped L. Patrick Gray, not Felt, to succeed J. Edgar Hoover.
"Felt was considered by reformers at the FBI to be part of the problem rather than the solution," Mr. Novak says. "He was viewed as a sycophantic lieutenant ... ." In fact, Novak says Felt "offered only obstruction" to William Ruckelshaus' efforts (he succeeded Mr. Gray) to investigate Watergate.
So, it's quite plausible that the man hailed this week by gushing journalists for being "Deep Throat" would have kept silent had Mr. Nixon promoted him. That's not the trait of a "hero." It is, however, a characteristic of a self-serving...
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Refreshing reading.
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And now you have...........the REST of the story.
A lot of the stuff I saw today about "Deep Throat" was more of a debate over whether or not he was actually a hero.
So much about ‘Deep Throat’, he was a small player in the over all plan. He and the media were used as chess pieces for a higher gain. In ‘The Amendment’ by John Fitzgerald there is a lot more to the story. The theory behind the facts is amazing and really does leave you wondering, did this really happen. I think this book could and should explode.
So Felt's disgraceful behavior has proven that Nixon was right to have passed him over. Felt didn't have the moral and ethical character to fill the top FBI slot.
This Hero stuff makes me want to gag. Brit Hume was throwing the term around like there was a debate on it. He was a Zero not a hero. Fireman, Police, Military and a every day joe saving someones life are HERO's. These idiots in teh media make me want to hurl.
Novak had his own feud with Hoover and Felt that predated Watergate, so I take what he says accordingly:
Mark Riebling, WEDGE: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA, Chapter 14: The Sullivan Plot
But William Sullivan knew about the planned enlargement, and he took up CIA's role in objecting to it. On June 8, Sullivan commented on a Bureau planning memo that "more is not better" when it came to FBI overseas work, although "by juggling statistics, you can prove almost anything." A Hoover loyalist duly reported to the FBI Director that "Mr. Sullivan apparently does not realize that this is being considered at the specific request of the White House.... Accordingly, I recommend that Sullivan's observations be disregarded at this time." Sullivan's remarks were indeed ignored, but his insubordination was not, and the matter came to confrontation in fall 1971, when news of the expansion somehow reached columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, who attacked Hoover for trespassing into CIA's domain. "The arguments advanced and the language used were exactly the same as Sullivan had used within the Bureau," Felt recalled, and Sullivan later admitted leaking the story. Some at the Bureau speculated that Sullivan was opposing Hoover perhaps because he knew that his friends in CIA, who resented what they considered FBI incursions into their jurisdiction, would be pleased by his position. In a "Strictly Confidential memo For the Director's Personal Files," Hoover assistant R.R. Beaver warned: "it appears more definite to me that he [Sullivan] is more on the side of CIA... than the FBI."
The Left would love the 'Hero' tag. Heroism requires sacrifice. His skulking around garages was anything but and in my mind it was cowardly..!
"Deep Throat" Mark Felt-allatio is now 91. But in 1972, he was America's 911.
Deep Throat was a hero to the hate Nixon left, the same left that hated Reagan and now Bush.The socalled MSM is nothing if not consistent in their parroting of the Leftist agenda.
Hero my patootie.
This line says it all.
Mark Felt went to the liberal press out of spite, not because of heroic loyalty to an ideal. This is the fact that liberals conveniently overlook.
In any discussion with liberals about Felt's motives one has only to remind them that had Felt got his promotion there would have been no Watergate. Felt would have been Nixon's "man" and he would done all he could to cover that break-in up.
Interesting!
He felt that "Deep Throat" was not the proper name for him, but would have been more appropriate as, "Sour Grapes."
He felt for DT to do what he did, and have all those people die, was a disgrace, and he should be ashamed of himself--not proud.
I must admit, Mr. Stein's info sounded solid and just.
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