WOODWARD CONFIRMS FELT AS DEEP THROAT

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/article/deepthroat31.html

Washington Post Confirms Felt as 'Deep Throat'

By William Branigin and David Von Drehle
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 31, 2005

The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at the FBI, was "Deep Throat," the secretive source who provided information that helped unravel the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s and contributed to the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon.

Woodward said Felt helped The Post at a time of tense relations between the White House and much of the FBI hierarchy. He said the Watergate break-in came shortly after the death of legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Felt's mentor, and that Felt and other bureau officials wanted to see an FBI veteran promoted to succeed Hoover.

Felt himself had hopes that he would be the next FBI director, but Nixon instead appointed an administration insider, assistant attorney general L. Patrick Gray, to the post.

Bradlee, in an interview this afternoon, said that knowing that "Deep Throat" was a high-ranking FBI official helped him feel confident about the information that the paper was publishing about Watergate. He said that he knew the "positional identity" of "Deep Throat" as the Post was breaking its Watergate stories and that he learned his name within a couple of weeks after Nixon's resignation.

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[Melodybe]

1. My first question to Felt is, did HW hire you for the job?

Does he have any business ties to the BFEE?

[wakeme2008]

2. OK this now makes sense

Pay backs are Hell and Felt's got his pay backs big time.

[CoffeeCat]

3. Is Felt ill??

Woodward recently said that Deepthroat was ill.

Has it been confirmed that Felt is ill or dying?

[Placebo]

4. Supposedly he's very ill...

and his "memory is going" or something like that.

Perhaps just from old age though, he is 91. And he looked pretty frail just coming to the door of his home, on TV a while ago.

[CoffeeCat]

5. I'm convinced.

Woodward said that Deepthroat was ill; and Felt is.

I imagine that Felt knows his days are numbered, and wanted to come clean.

I'm sure, for a long time--he felt as if he had done something wrong. It must have been difficult to carry around that secret. I imagine he has a deep longing to be told that he is a hero.

There's a reason(s) that he divulged before he died. He needs validation from his country.

He is a hero.

How can we contact him?

[Placebo]

6. Wish I knew...

but I have a feeling he'll be receiving a ton of flowers and letters from well-wishers! :)