(OK, this item is now outdated — if you click on the Washington Post link below, you get a much more complete story that actually tells you something. I just thought it was interesting late this morning, as a snapshot of a moment in news limbo. The AP story quoted in full at the bottom is a rough approximation of what the Post was saying at the time I first put this post up.)
The Washington Post is reporting that Vanity Fair is reporting the identity of "Deep Throat." Which is weird, when you think about it.
What’s weirder is that the brief item the Post has posted doesn’t say what Bob Woodward has to say about it (at least when I looked; maybe they’ll have updated the story by the time you read this. Couldn’t they find him? The magazine’s site isn’t helpful, either.
In case you have trouble with that link — registration hassles, etc. — here’s what the AP is saying about it (which is as much as the Post is):
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{Former FBI official says he was `Deep Throat,’ his family says in} statement
{Eds: UPDATES with family statement. Changes dateline from NEW YORK}
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A former FBI official claims he was "Deep Throat," the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon’s Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday.
W. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s. His identity was revealed Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine, and family members said they believe his account is true.
"The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice," a family statement read by grandson Nick Jones said. "We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well."
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Woodward is writing a piece on it for either Thursday’s Post according to the Post’s confirmation of the identity article. Ben Bradlee is quoted in their article that’s up now.
Yep, I figured that would happen eventually. What they had up originally just struck me as ironic.
DT was Felt. Great. Now on to some unsolved mysteries from the currebt era. Such as: Who threatened Kathleen Willey?
Who hired private detectives Jack Palladino and Anthony Pellicano? The two dicks were hired to silence women who claimed they had affairs with Bill Clinton during the Clintons’ 1992 presidential camapign. A notation in the campaign’s Federal Election Commission filing shows that Palladino was paid from the Clinton/Gore ’92 campaign.
How did White House security director Craig Livingstone, a former bar bouncer, manage to obtain 1,200 confidential FBI files on the Clintons’ political enemies?
Who ordered the IRS to audit Clinton’s critics and accusers? Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Juanita Broaddrick, Billy Dale and Johnny Chung were all investigated by the Clinton IRS. The Christian Coalition, the Freedom Alliance, the National Rifle Association The American Spectator and the Heritage Foundation were targeted as well. Coincidence? Right. The IRS was headed at the time by Hillary Clinton friend and ally, Margaret Milner Richardson.
How did Vince Foster’s suicide note mysteriously appear in a briefcase that had already been thoroughly searched before a room full of witnesses? On July 22, 1993, White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum conducted the search of Foster’s briefcase at the White House as FBI agents and Park Police officers looked on. “It’s empty,” he proclaimed, holding the briefcase open to dispel any doubt. But four days later, Nussbaum claimed that he’d overlooked 22 scraps of papers that tumbled out of the bag when his aide was packing up Foster’s personal affects. The scraps, when pieced together, formed a note blaming Clinton media critics for depressing Foster.
Who was Sandy Berger calling? The former national security advisor finally admitted in March that he removed top secret terrorism documents from the National Archives while preparing for President Clinton’s testimony before the 9/11 Commission. Guards at the Archives said that Berger repeatedly asked to be left alone in the document room so he could make some private calls. The identity of Berger’s telephone partner has never been revealed.
Who at the Justice Department advised President Clinton not to accept a 1996 offer from Sudan to extradite Osama bin Laden to the U.S.? In 2002, Clinton said he’d been told “we had no legal basis to hold him” because bin Laden “had committed no crime against America.” Instead, Clinton said he tried to persuade Saudi Arabia to take bin Laden. When they refused, the al Qaeda mastermind set up operations in Afghanistan, where he plotted the 9/11 attacks.
Wow, DT was Felt not Garment…or Haig…or Diane Sawyer. Yawn.
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