Bohemian Conservative
Who Cares? Part Deux
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI No. 2 Mark Felt is "Deep Throat," the legendary source who leaked Watergate scandal secrets to the Washington Post and helped bring down President Richard Nixon, journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein said on Tuesday after 30 years of secrecy.This is the biggest non-news story. Does anybody really care? This guy is 91; Watergate was over 30 years ago; and President Nixon has been dead for over 10 years. Furthermore, in terms of national security, the Watergate tapes contained nothing of importance; it was all about GOP/DNC political strategy. I don't think the information that may possibly have been acquired from those tapes would have made any difference one way or the other since Nixon trounced McGovern 49 states to 1 in 1972 (the only state McGovern won was Mass-a-2-shits; go figure...). No matter what Nixon did, McGovern never had a chance, so save the sanctimonious BS about Watergate having shaken the very foundations of democracy.
If you didn't like Vietnam, don't blame Nixon. Blame the French for not being able to control their colony and running away, surrender monkeys that they were and still are. Or blame Woodrow Wilson, another racist Democrat who sought a "new world order" as he tried to get the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations passed through Congress. Wilson basically told Ho Chi Minh to go fuck himself when Ho aproached him for help in Paris in 1918 after WWI - it was only when Wilson refused that Ho went to the Communists.
I'm much more concerned that former National Security Adviser under former President Clinton, Sandy Berger, the underwear bandit, is not in prison for misappropriating sensitive, classified material pertaining to national security in a time of war.
The only part of this story that seems "newsy" is that Felt possibly had an axe to grind:
Felt had denied in the past that he was "Deep Throat," but as a top FBI official he would have had access to many of the details of the scandal. He was passed over by Nixon for the top FBI job, giving him a potential motive.
posted by Mae at 1:43 PM
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His daughter is really hamming it up on the news, telling everyone how sensitive a man her father is and how he only cares about people and all this feel good stuff. His family is touting him as a great American hero who went well and above the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice.
Answer me this? Do you get to be the #2 man in the FBI by being a “good guy”? Would J. Edgar Hoover promote you for being sensitive and caring about the feelings of other people? I wonder what M.L. King and the other civil rights leaders in the 60’s would have to say about Mr. Felt being a sensitive guy.
If you’re a real hero, rather than leak stuff to the news media, file charges. After all, you’re the #2 man in the FBI.
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Ahhhhhhh...the truth comes out. The family wants money before gramps kicks the bucket.
According to the Vanity Fair article, Felt only allowed his secret to be revealed after prodding from his children, who argued his legacy should be established while he was still alive and that the family should reap some monetary rewards from his newly established place in history.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158180,00.html
Yesterday was the first time I've heard of this Deep Throat thing concerning Watergate. I always thought Deep Throat was Linda Lovelace.
Yep. At the time it seemed to be a bit of sour grapes that Felt got passed over for the number one job.
Now there's a money-grubbing family in the mix.
And yes, Bob, regardless of Hoover wearing dresses or being gay, he was one ornary SOB when it came to dealing with commies and the like, and from what I have read he wasn't a touchy-feely kind of guy. I don't think he had touchy feely guys in his top echelon either.
Nobody gets to the top of anything by being "nice."
And I am not discounting what Nixon did either. It was wrong; he got caught; and he resigned.
At least he didn't insult our intelligence like Clinton did and make an issue of defining the meaning of the of the word "is."
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