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Navy_Navy_Navy
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Ann Coulter's take on this is pretty good. (as usual  )
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=7703
(Emphasis mine)
| Quote: | My only regret is that Mark Felt did not rat out Nixon because he was ticked off about rapprochement with China or detente with the Soviets.
Rather more prosaically, Felt leaked details of the Watergate investigation to The Washington Post only because he had lost a job promotion—making him the Richard Clarke of the Watergate era. This will come as small consolation to the Cambodians and Vietnamese tortured and slaughtered as a direct result of Nixon's fall. Oh, well. At least we got a good movie and Jimmy Carter out of it.
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Of course, in Felt's defense, he wasn't Deep Throat. There was no Deep Throat. Now we know.
As most people had generally assumed, the shadowy figure who made his first appearance in a late draft of All the President's Men was a composite of several sources—among them, apparently, Mark Felt. But in telling the glorious story of "How The Washington Post Saved America," it was more thrilling to portray Deep Throat as a single mysterious individual, spilling his guts to Bob Woodward.
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We might have known all this before 1993 if America's ever-vigilant watchdog media had been, say, half as skeptical of Bob Woodward's claims as they were of Juanita Broaddrick's.
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So it's not really that amazing that the identity of Deep Throat managed to stay secret for so long. I promise you, I will go to my grave without ever disclosing the name of my pet unicorn. |
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Rdtf
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Location: BUSHville
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| kate wrote: | | Quote: | | Was he a Skull member? |
a 1965 graduate of Yale University, a member of Yale's secret society Book and Snake
Book and Snake? that's a reallly secret one |
A little about it-
A copy of a 1960 Yale Banner - Note Porter Goss and others
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SBD
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Joined: 19 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:00 am Post subject: |
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These files are from the National Archives. I haven't had time to go through them all, but Felt is mentioned numerous times throughout the document. I also have the Nixon tape recording as well. I started another thread so if others not following this one want to read the FBI files, they would see it.
FBI files covering FBI analysis of its conduct during the Watergate
investigation.
WATERGAT1.PDF
WATERGAT2.PDF
Here's a sample from page 62 of the Watergate1.pdf
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