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Mark Felt was ‘ashamed’ of Deep Throat nickname
NY Post ^ | September 22, 2017 | Tashara Jones

Posted on 09/22/2017 9:52:52 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

Peter Landesman — the director of “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House,” about the identity of Deep Throat — says Felt was ashamed of the nickname given to him during the Watergate investigation.

The pseudonym for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s secret Watergate source “was a porn reference and was actually one of the reasons Mark felt so ashamed,” Landesman told us. “He was a real Christian, and that actually was a big deal for him.”

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Real Christian? I know it was a long time ago, but back in Sunday school I remember something about the Ten Commandments and "Thou shalt not covet". This was a man who brought down a government and elected the 2nd worst President in history not because his faith compelled him but because he was mad about not getting a promotion.
1 posted on 09/22/2017 9:52:52 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Yet he backstabbed a great man.


2 posted on 09/22/2017 9:54:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Nailed it.


3 posted on 09/22/2017 9:54:49 PM PDT by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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To: proust

Was he ashamed to be called “Deep Throat” because he was a Christian or because it revealed too much about his dirty little secret. I wonder.......


4 posted on 09/22/2017 10:03:36 PM PDT by bagster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He betrayed those of us who backed him through various organizations including one roughly named Association of Former FBI Agents (and possibly AFIO).


5 posted on 09/22/2017 10:22:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Bravo. Would just add that Mr. Felt violated his oath of office and the Constitution and committed felonies by disclosing the information that he disclosed to Woodward and Bernstein.


6 posted on 09/22/2017 10:37:54 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

So what?


7 posted on 09/22/2017 10:40:41 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I still think Al was involved.


8 posted on 09/22/2017 10:42:28 PM PDT by kallisti (Both soliloquized alternately and imagined they were conversing)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Nixon was dishonest, but that does not justify Mark Felt’s completely illegal leaking of FBI information. Felt hoped to be FBI Director after J. Edgar Hoover. Nixon, correctly, wanted an outsider. Felt’s motives against Nixon were entirely personal.


9 posted on 09/22/2017 10:46:03 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Movie out Sept. 29:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5175450/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR1IjeAdevI

http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/mark-felt-the-man-who-brought-down-the-white-house-review-liam-neeson-1202551507/


10 posted on 09/22/2017 10:52:04 PM PDT by iowamark
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“He was a real Christian..."

Ah, one of those "real Christians" who betrays his vows and seeks to destroy another human due to a fit of pique.

11 posted on 09/22/2017 11:03:38 PM PDT by Robwin (very)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

>>Real Christian? I know it was a long time ago, but back in Sunday school I remember something about the Ten Commandments and “Thou shalt not covet”. <<

Felt, with no sense of loyalty and stabbed Nixon in the back, was a professed Christian? Who would have guessed?


12 posted on 09/22/2017 11:07:56 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: kallisti
The old book “Silent Coup” by Len Colodny is a well-researched book on Watergate. It talks quite a bit about Haig. There was a General(?) that had links to Woodward and when confronted about trying to do an end-around on Nixon (maybe even to “overthrow” him?) he replied something like “To think that I would deceive the President of the United States is rediculus - outlandish, and doesn't even deserve a comment.”

I recall years after reading the book an article in a magazine about this General being accused of buying military weapons (tanks, etc.) for a museum, but instead selling the stuff to foreign countries. It was unbelievable, but his response to the accusation used the EXACT same words as before. I believe he was convicted on the arms-trafficking.

I have real doubts that Felt was “Deep Throat”. I think the book came to the conclusion that Deep Throat was a compilation of people.

Len Coldny’s website with some info:

http://www.watergate.com/

13 posted on 09/22/2017 11:29:32 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I don’t believe he was DT. It was really a combination of people.


14 posted on 09/22/2017 11:47:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Robwin
Ah, one of those "real Christians" who betrays his vows and seeks to destroy another human due to a fit of pique.

Also, when he was nearing the end of his life did he reveal his secret as an act of contrition? Hell no, he wanted to make some money to leave to his daughter.

15 posted on 09/23/2017 1:02:34 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: kallisti

From the “Silent Coup” website there is this observation by Colodny:

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What was Concealed:

Woodward, by using “Throat”, is concealing the person that actually erased the tape or at the very least witnessed it being erased.

Why This Is Significant:

Colodny tells Woodward in the interview transcript below: “the word that jumps out at you is deliberate. Because if somebody is deliberately erasing tapes that are before Judge Sirica, we’re talking about a crime.”

It is significant because, if for “Throat” to know it was deliberate, he either erased the tape or witnessed its destruction. It is clear that both the process of elimination and Woodward’s changing story about “Throat” as a source, that Alexander Haig is the source that told him that there were deliberate erasures on the White House tapes.


16 posted on 09/23/2017 1:09:29 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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Not buying any of this.

Woodward worked for Haig in the Nixon White House; he was GOP!

Watergate was about Nixon not choosing HW Bush as VP.

Nixon’s patron since the late 40’s was Prescott “Planned Parenthood Nazi” Bush.

Nixon was being blackmailed with the supposed erased 18 minutes of tape that somehow he didn’t know was being taped?

B.S.

Another Bush family takedown.

Amidst all the other Bush family take downs that we fail to see because all we see are three letters in front of the Bush family name: G O P

P.S. That’s the real reason Woodward did all those loving portraitures of W in those books.


17 posted on 09/23/2017 1:32:15 AM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus, please frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised in Your Word)
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The book “Silent Coup” discusses at length the intrigue that Haig was involved with.

Excerpt from another article:

The “Moorer-Radford affair,” as scholars now call it, was ultimately exposed by the press—though not by Woodward and Bernstein—in early 1974....

Nixon called the spying “a federal offense of the highest order” and demanded Moorer be tried for espionage. As the White House tapes make clear, Attorney General John Mitchell calmly took control of the situation, advising against public disclosure in any forum and prevailing upon Nixon to banish Yeoman Radford to a remote outpost and keep Admiral Moorer where he was, perhaps weakened and more pliable....

Why would Woodward omit mention of the monumental rupture between the commander in chief and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that erupted on the eve of the “zilch” note? Was the Washington Post ace, when he wrote The Last of the President’s Men, somehow unaware of the Moorer-Radford affair? Assuredly not. For decades now, brave historians have been questioning Woodward’s strange avoidance of the subject matter.

Most notable was the 1991 bestseller Silent Coup: Removal of a President, co-authored by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin and denounced by Woodward and Bernstein as “trash.” Yet Silent Coup marshaled important new archival evidence of its own to advance a number of claims about Woodward. The first was that one of his Watergate-era sources was General Alexander Haig, Kissinger’s NSC deputy. Silent Coup established that Woodward had met Haig during the first Nixon term, when Woodward served as a Navy intelligence briefer to senior White House officials. A former Vietnam commander and Pentagon loyalist, Haig held his own boss, Kissinger, in low regard and was deeply complicit in the JCS spying: It was Haig who handpicked Yeoman Radford to travel with Kissinger.

By the time Haig became Nixon’s chief of staff, succeeding Haldeman as the Watergate scandal mushroomed in the spring of 1973, Haig worked tirelessly behind the scenes to bury the Moorer-Radford affair and his own role in it. Silent Coup detailed how Haig had enjoyed the compliance of Woodward and Bernstein, who knew of Moorer-Radford yet passed on it as a news story. The clear implication was that Woodward had protected Haig, a key source.

All these years later, even with the “zilch” note in hand, Bob Woodward is still steering clear of Moorer-Radford. Such sins of omission do not detract from the historical importance of the “zilch” memo and the other archival discoveries in the appendices to The Last of the President’s Men. But they do show that the author’s agenda remains suspect...


18 posted on 09/23/2017 2:00:07 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

http://www.startribune.com/he-was-deep-throat-and-that-was-just-the-half-of-it/36661014/

It’s hard to summon the generation gap intensity of the Vietnam War protests of the 1970s. It was in that context — and this is not an excuse for their actions — that Felt and another former top FBI official, Edward S. Miller, authorized warrantless searches at the homes of friends and relatives of Weather Underground members in a desperate, and illegal, hunt for the whereabouts of the protesters they considered terrorists. Indeed, Bill Ayers may have Mark Felt to thank for avoiding prison.

As former President Richard M. Nixon testified at the trial of Felt and Miller, “It was quite different than what it is today,” a “wartime,” when the Weathermen intended “to overthrow the government.”

Felt and Miller were convicted in 1980, but President Ronald Reagan, in words that resonate today with the current debate, pardoned them less than a year later. Citing President Jimmy Carter’s blanket pardon for Vietnam draft evaders, Reagan said in his statement, “We can be no less generous to two men who acted on high principle to bring an end to the terrorism that was threatening our nation.”


19 posted on 09/23/2017 2:12:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: 21twelve

Interesting, but I think Woodward was Navy Intel or SIGINT and knew Haig or someone in the early days of the Nixon White House; he was definitely GOP.

I once tried to rabbit-trail Woodward and his connection to the Bush family.

It was down to an old, archived CNN interview with Dana Perino and Woodward, I believe.

Sure enough, of all of CNN’s ancient interviews, this one was mysteriously wiped.

Unavailable.

Now I can’t remember why I was looking for it; I think it had to do with his Bush War Years book or some other B.S. MSM meme of the day.

I saw CNN wasn’t just the Clinton News Network, but carried water for the GOPe when necessary or pressed to do so.

Uniparty traitors all.


20 posted on 09/23/2017 2:15:42 AM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus, please frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised in Your Word)
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