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Does the recent NYT opinion letter writer and possible contributor to Bob Woodward's latest book deserve to be called" 2018-Deep Throat"???
I imagine a large number of you weren't even born when the below occurred.
But the major point of the below excerpt is that the former Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt was "Deep Throat".
After Hoover's death, Felt became angry and disgusted when L. Patrick Gray, a career naval officer and lawyer from the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, with no prior law enforcement experience, was appointed Director of the FBI over Felt, a 30-year veteran of the Bureau. Felt was particularly unhappy with Gray's management style at the FBI, which was markedly different from Hoover's. Felt selected Woodward because he knew Woodward and Bernstein were assigned to investigate the burglary. Instead of seeking out prosecutors at the Justice Department, or the House Judiciary Committee charged with investigating presidential wrongdoing, he methodically leaked information to Woodward to guide their investigation while keeping his own identity and involvement safely concealed.
Deep Throat (Watergate) - Wikipedia
So is the "anonymous" NYT opinion letter writer a disgruntled FBI person? Say Rosenstein, Wray,etc.?
Trying to protect their roles in the "deep state" efforts of the "anonymous source"?
I imagine a large number of you weren't even born when the below occurred.
But the major point of the below excerpt is that the former Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt was "Deep Throat".
After Hoover's death, Felt became angry and disgusted when L. Patrick Gray, a career naval officer and lawyer from the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, with no prior law enforcement experience, was appointed Director of the FBI over Felt, a 30-year veteran of the Bureau. Felt was particularly unhappy with Gray's management style at the FBI, which was markedly different from Hoover's. Felt selected Woodward because he knew Woodward and Bernstein were assigned to investigate the burglary. Instead of seeking out prosecutors at the Justice Department, or the House Judiciary Committee charged with investigating presidential wrongdoing, he methodically leaked information to Woodward to guide their investigation while keeping his own identity and involvement safely concealed.
Deep Throat (Watergate) - Wikipedia
So is the "anonymous" NYT opinion letter writer a disgruntled FBI person? Say Rosenstein, Wray,etc.?
Trying to protect their roles in the "deep state" efforts of the "anonymous source"?