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DEEP THROAT: CASE CLOSED!!

Suppose you see a well-known psychic give a reading on TV for a sitter. Suppose the psychic gets some really astounding hits that are more than good guesses. As a skeptic, you feel there has to be a trick involved somehow. Suppose you then go online and look the sitter up on a something like Lexis-Nexis and find some news articles about the sitter that contain some of the "hits" given in the reading.

One could make the inference that the psychic also read these articles on Lexis-Nexis, or some other source, and used these to give a "hot reading." This is a classic Woodward and Bernstein "factoid."

It is a reasonable inference, and a better sounding inference than the one that says the psychic really is psychic.

But if you then claimed an anonymous source told you they actually saw the psychic using Lexis-Nexis to get facts on sitters, and this is not really true, then you have crossed a line.
 
Amusing to watch the fallout from Felt's fessin'-up to being Deep throat.

A number of the "involved" types, like Colson, are going on about how perhaps this 91-year old stroke victim should be prosecuted for something. They had Buchanan and Colson on the "Today" show, in a rather (IMO) whiney complaint about the whole affair. After all, they said, Hoover sat on JFK's indiscretions and didn't fink on him.

Then they had Brokaw and Russert, who pointed out that while JFK was a "busy" man, he didn't (so far as we know) commit prosecutable felonies while in office.
They also pointed out that Buchanan's suggestion that Felt resign in protest and make his claims public would have gone nowhere in a situation where the FBI had the power it did, and was in apparent collusion with the White House.

Hoover, of course, had dirt on everyone, and used it to his advantage on many occasions.
Howard Dean is holding out that Felt could not be Deep Throat, as he didn't have inside access to the White House. Of course, he did have direct access to the FBI files, being # 2, and who knows what Hoover had?

Hehe- is there yet more "unindicted co-conspirators" lurking out there?
 
I wouldn't be surprised if over the next few weeks, someone will show that there are "facts" stated as coming from Deep Throat that couldn't possibly have come from Felt. Woodstein will then be pressured to reveal where they got these "facts" from, and they will hem and haw about "other Deep Throats" they had as sources. Then the pundits on the right will have fun with the "making ◊◊◊◊ up" theory while those on the left will have fun with the "big brother is watching" theory until everyone becomes bored with it all.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Pat Buchanon is on with Chris Matthews now claiming Felt is a commie and a traitor and a freedom hater and doesn't believe in Santa Claus.

Give it up Pat. The only bigger laughing stock in politics is Michael "Zero Pct" Badnarik, and you're getting awfully close.
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You have to remember, Pat Buchanan was enamored with Richard Nixon.

I don't think Buchanan is a total joke. I just think he's a man without party. He is a protectionist, quasi-isolationist, religious conservative. He doesn't fit in with Free-trade wing of american politics (Bush/Clinton). He can't associate with the dirty hippie anti-globalists because of his conservative views.

I sympathize with Buchanan because people who don't hold 95 percent down the line partisan views don't fit in well with the washington/newyork media outlets. That said, I disagree with his religious conservative viewpoint, his stance on free-trade, and his conservative foreign policy approach (versus Bush's liberal foreign policy which for some reason is called "neo-con").
 
corplinx said:
The sad thing is, its a big revelation but ultimately is anti-climactic.
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No kidding. I had money on Kissinger, based purely on the unbeatable irony had that turned out to be the case. Et tu, Brute?
 
Luke T. said:

Anyone remember CIA director Casey's supposed bedside confession to Woodward?

Making ◊◊◊◊ up.
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I sure hope you meant deathbed confession. If not, then I have a new respect for the ... ahem ... lengths to which W&B would go for a story. :D
 
corplinx, I thought that was a nice, fair summary of Buchanan.

I also think a brief summary might also include the fact that he is prone to inflamatory statements.

If I was philosophically in sync with the guy (I'm not, my own views are similar to yours I suspect) I still wouldn't vote for him because of his pentient for really pissing people off.

He has come close enough to the line that a good case is made on the internet that he is an anti-semitic. While Bush has been a divisive president I think with Buchanan the internal divisions in the country would have been amplified 10 fold.
 
It always seemed plausible to me that Deep Throat was with the FBI. I tended to lean toward director Pat Gray, because of the way he was portrayed in the book, "All The President's Men." During times when Woodstein and the Post were drawing heavy fire, Gray made some well-timed public revelations that vindicated Woodstein and the Post. These revelations not only helped save the Post, they enhanced the Post's credibility. It was this sort of thing that led some to suggest that Gray was Deep Throat, and that he was helping out the Post in secret ways as well. (Mike Wallace was one of those who thought so. Wallace went on record saying that he thought Gray was Deep Throat, an assertion that Gray promptly denied.)

In any event, Deep Throat seemed to be portrayed in the book as being more closely allied with the FBI than with the Justice Department or the White House. He also was portrayed as someone who was not all that well known, as he and Woodward had discussed business in a restaurant (an event not depicted in the film).
 
What I love about Buchanan's, Liddy's, Dean's and Colson's reaction to Felt is that he was a traitor, it couldn't possibly be him, he's ashamed of what he did, etc.

But not one of them said that what they did was wrong. History has proven that and that's their legacy, no matter how hard they tried to spin it.

Michael
 
Bikewer said:
They had Buchanan and Colson on the "Today" show, in a rather (IMO) whiney complaint about the whole affair.
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Yeah. They call those two "The Dead End Kids". The dead enders. Buchanon will go to his grave claiming that Nixon was "mis-understood".
 
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