Deep Throat revealed at last

[Vlad D Impeller]

Watergate's Deep Throat revealed <br /> <br />Mark Felt says he only told his secret to his family three years ago <br />The Washington Post has confirmed a former deputy chief of the FBI was Deep Throat, the source who leaked secrets during the Watergate scandal. <br />Vanity Fair magazine had reported Mark Felt admitted being the source whose identity had been secret for decades. <br /><br />The scandal forced the resignation of Republican President Richard Nixon in August 1974. <br /><br />Deep Throat helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate affair. <br /><br />Initially the reporters refused to confirm Mr Felt's identity. <br /><br />"We've said all along that when the source, known as Deep Throat, dies, we will reveal his identity," said Bernstein, according to MSNBC. <br /><br />But later on Tuesday, Woodward said Mr Felt was indeed Deep Throat, in a statement carried on the Washington Post's website. <br /><br />Flower pot <br /><br />Mr Felt, now 91, told Vanity Fair: "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat." <br /><br />The name derived from a famous pornographic film of the time. <br /><br />Mr Felt only admitted his secret to his family in 2002, he told the magazine, when his daughter confronted him after being tipped off by one of his close associates. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />1974: The Watergate scandal <br /><br />The identity of the most famous unidentified single source in the history of journalism has also been one of the profession's best kept secrets, says the BBC's Justin Webb in Washington. <br /><br />Deep Throat assisted Woodward and Bernstein with prompts and hints. <br /><br />If Woodward needed to meet the source to check information, he would place a flag in a flower pot on a certain place on his window sill, as a signal for the pair to meet in secret in an underground car park in the dead of night. <br /><br />For decades, there has been speculation about who the source was - but no credible individual has ever come forward. <br /><br />Bugging attempt <br /><br />When Nixon resigned in August 1974, it was the first time any US president had done so. <br /><br />The Watergate scandal concerned a break-in at the offices of the rival Democratic party in the Watergate building in Washington in 1972, and a subsequent cover-up. <br /><br />The attempted bugging of the building was linked to officials in the Nixon White House, and the cover-up went all the way to the top. <br /><br />The reporters' role in the affair was immortalised in the 1976 film All The President's Men.

 

[hollisduncan]

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I was 1 <br /><br />*wow*

 

[hollisduncan]

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Is it me or does Felt look at an ABC news reporter meforgets his name ... ??

 

[Vlad D Impeller]

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I always thought that it was someone in the whitehouse that leaked the information, gee was i wrong, and with a cover name like deep throat, maybe it it was a woman, i was wrong again.<br /><br />I figure that this story is probably going to be overly analysed for the next few days in the news media, this is the sort of thing that they like to feast and regurgitate on.

 

[Trent]

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He wants "Fame" before he dies..?? I was a teen then. Im wondering if he is a traitor to the FBI? Im just going to sit back and see how the media spins this.... It really does not change the outcome.. Nixion is gone

 

[Twidget]

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The media will spin it that he was a great hero.<br /><br />I remember being really ticked off as a kid, because all that was on TV that summer was Watergate.

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Woodward and Bernstein still don't acknowledge whether Felt was Deep Throat or not. Interesting.

 

[Trent]

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BoatBuoy... Thats not what iv seen today... At least on the news

 

[agitator]

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The man is an embarassment to himself and the FBI. He improperly used information in a way that ought to scare the heck out all supporters of new homeland security gathering methods. One guy can go out of channels for his own reasons and release information with a potentially devestating effect to the pack of heyenas that is the media that will print it without verification or consideration of consequence. When he meets Nixon soon I hope he can explain going outside his agencies policies, procedures and ethics.

 

[kenimpzoom]

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Why are they calling him a hero.<br /><br />Did he save the USA? What did he do that made him a hero? Nixon wasnt lying about state secrets, or critical info. He was just a paranoid freak that ordered a spy mission.<br /><br />Mr Felt didnt do anything but rat on a corrupt politician, and came out unscathed. He risked nothing.<br /><br />Ken

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Originally posted by Trent:<br /> BoatBuoy... Thats not what iv seen today... At least on the news

You're exactly right and I stand corrected. Earlier I saw where they would not comment either way. CNN is now reporting:<br /><br />"Woodward, Bernstein and Benjamin C. Bradlee, who was the Post's executive editor at the time, confirmed that Felt was Deep Throat in an article Tuesday on the paper's Web site."

 

[fireman57]

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Nixon was just powerhungry but everyone knew that. He just got caught doing what every president/high ranking government official had been doing for years. Everyone seems to forget that he got us out of Vietnam.

 

[NYMINUTE]

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This revelation is about as useful as a washing machine in a nudist colony. 30 years late. Amazing what our government keeps secret. How about they FIX SOCIAL SECURITY instead.

 

[Twidget]

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30 years late. Amazing what our government keeps secret.

It wasn't the government that kept it secret. If nothing else, it goes to show that the media is capable of keeping a secret when they want to.

 

[SoulWinner]

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Special Report<br />Deep Throat and Genocide<br />By Ben Stein <br />Published 6/1/2005 12:22:42 AM<br />Re: The "news" that former FBI agent Mark Felt broke the law, broke his code of ethics, broke his oath and was the main source for Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's articles that helped depose Richard Nixon, a few thoughts.<br /><br />Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW's, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel's life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?<br /><br />Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable. He lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose. He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded.<br /><br />That is his legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying conniving seducer like Clinton -- a lying conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon's kharma.<br /><br />When his enemies brought him down, and they had been laying for him since he proved that Alger Hiss was a traitor, since Alger Hiss was their fair-haired boy, this is what they bought for themselves in the Kharma Supermarket that is life:<br /><br />1.) The defeat of the South Vietnamese government with decades of death and hardship for the people of Vietnam.<br /><br />2.) The assumption of power in Cambodia by the bloodiest government of all time, the Khmer Rouge, who killed a third of their own people, often by making children beat their own parents to death. No one doubts RN would never have let this happen.<br /><br />So, this is the great boast of the enemies of Richard Nixon, including Mark Felt: they made the conditions necessary for the Cambodian genocide. If there is such a thing as kharma, if there is such a thing as justice in this life of the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide. I hope they are happy now -- because their future looks pretty bleak to me.

 

[Twidget]

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SW, you missed one terror, the Carter administration. Remember that little 4 year stink in national hell? <br /><br />Deepthroat was and is a traitor to his country. He should have turned any evidence of a crime over to a grand jury and let justice prevail. Instead, he let the media put the country through hell. It also gave the media a taste of blood and the self righteous idea that they are duty bound to destroy any administration that they disagree with.<br /><br />Phew, I feel better having said all that.

 

[SoulWinner]

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Yeah Twidget, the guy is a criminal, and the media is in love with him. Why? They all obviously hate America.

 

[DJ]

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Yeah Twidget, the guy is a criminal, and the media is in love with him. Why? They all obviously hate America.<br />

Agreed.<br /><br />The "right" thing to do would have been to go to the Grand Jury, not the press. This guy had a habit of leaking things.

 

[Realgun]

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I remember being really ticked off as a kid, because all that was on TV that summer was Watergate.

You too! <br /><br />PBS was nothing but Water Gate I never knew it was a Hotel till I was watching Quantum leap and the wife says that the Water Gate break in. Now is that wierd or what?