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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 09:59 PM
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The FBI put Mark Felt in charge of finding Deep Throat
This is fabulous. LMAO

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050704&s=goldberg

How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI
David Corn & Jeff Goldberg


The recent dramatic revelation about W. Mark Felt--the former top FBI man who has confessed to being Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's secret source during the Watergate scandal--has yielded what seems to be the final chapter in the Deep Throat saga, and thus the conclusion to a three-decade-long whodunit rich in detail, psychology and irony.

But Felt's role as the most famous anonymous source in US history was even more complex and intrigue-loaded than the newly revised public account suggests. According to originally confidential FBI documents--some written by Felt--that were obtained by The Nation from the FBI's archives, Felt played another heretofore unknown part in the Watergate tale: He was, at heated moments during the scandal, in charge of finding the source of Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate scoops. In a twist worthy of le Carré, Deep Throat was assigned the mission of unearthing--and stopping--Deep Throat.

This placed Felt, who as the FBI's associate director oversaw the bureau's Watergate probe, in an unusual position. He was essentially in charge of investigating himself. From this vantage point Felt, who had developed espionage skills running FBI counterintelligence operations against German spies in World War II, was able to watch his own back and protect his ability to guide the two reporters whose exposés would help topple the President he served.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 10:04 PM
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1. I saw that on
buzzflash yesterday.

That's how Mark basically saved the country from nixon and his henchmen..

"He was essentially in charge of investigating himself. From this vantage point Felt, who had developed espionage skills running FBI counterintelligence operations against German spies in World War II, was able to watch his own back and protect his ability to guide the two reporters whose exposés would help topple the President he served."

He had his own BACK!

Now it seems we have a "Deep Thought"(courtesy of Dragonfli) in England ..leaking memos to the press.
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i miss america Donating Member (822 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 10:04 PM
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2. What a wonderfully ironic sub-plot
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nickgutierrez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 10:14 PM
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3. That's really funny.
If I ever am under investigation, I hope the FBI gives me a chance to investigate myself, like they did for Mark Felt.

:rofl:
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 10:16 PM
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4. Maybe they were just messing with him....
We know you did it. C'mon crack. Fess up.
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Senior citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 10:55 PM
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5. Nah, it's standard operating procedure.
Edited on Wed Jun-15-05 10:55 PM by Senior citizen
Like putting Commander Cuckoobananas in charge of finding terrorists from his beloved Saudi Arabia or their leader from the family of his dear friends the Bin Ladens.

Or putting our intelligence agencies in charge of finding whoever used Anthrax to try and knock out Leahy.

We always put the guilty party in charge of searching for themselves, to make sure they don't get caught. Or that's how it looks to me.

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