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[geminigirl]

NBC reported that Vanity Fair has released a press release naming Deep Throat...

Mark Felt, second in command at the FBI at the time.

All of this remains, of course, unconfirmed.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Google news sources haven't gotten it yet.

[geminigirl]

It was an odd coincidence that I caught it. I had left the tv on downstairs and then decide to take a shower when I'd gone upstairs for something else...NBC broke into programming with a presidential news conference, and Brian Williams said something about it at the very end. I googled for it and didn't find anything. I have no idea how true it is, and I meant to go and put that in.

[geminigirl]

Cool. Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen it yet.

[gsh]

I had thought it might have been Rheinquist.

[geminigirl]

Curious...what led you to that conclusion?

Course no confirmation will happen til Deep Throat is dead. Then again, if it's true that this guy is it, and he's 91, we may not have to wait that long.

[gsh]

Well, he was an attourney general working in the white house for a while, which meant he was in position to know stuff, him being on the SC meant he had reason to hide his identity, and about six months ago there was a watergate exhibit opened at University of Texas, and the comment was made that Deep Throat was sick, and Rheinquist was sick at the time. Of course who ever deep throat is he's going to be getting up there in age, so being sick doesn't narrow it down a lot.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Are you confusing Rehnquist with Kleindeinst? I don't think Rehnquist was ever AG.

[gsh]

He was assistant AG to my knowledge.

[tsukata.livejournal.com]

Having recently seen your sex euphemism post and now this...

Does it seem funnily coincidental at all that Deep Throat is Felt? ;-)

[geminigirl]

It does actually...

I should point you at some of the previous silly sex polls if I can find them.

[zurcherart.livejournal.com]

There was a some speculation recently that Rhenquist was Deep Throat. Slate Magazine columnist Timothy Noah writes every so often about the id of Deep Throat. He discounted the Rhenquiest rumor here:http://www.slate.com/id/2113517 and named Mark Felts as one of the two men he felt likely to be Deep Throat. I wonder why Felts wants to come forward now?

But more troubling is the press conference that preceeded the announcement you scooped. Regarding Amnesty International's report about abuses at Guatanamo Bush said, “It’s absurd. It’s an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world.”

According TO MSNBC he said the Amnesty allegations were based on interviews with detainees, who hated America and were trained to lie.

That's a follow on to Cheney on Larry King, “Frankly, I was offended by it. For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don’t take them seriously.”

Now I wouldn't put it past Amnesty to overstate their case. And I'm sure the administration isn't gonna just own up to everything. But at least address the allegations. But to say it didn't happen because it couldn't happen? Absurd.

And frightening.

[geminigirl]

Interesting about the Amnesty thing. I was in the shower and when I got out, the press conference was on. Someone else on my flist made a post about the Amnesty Int'l thing, but I had to leave before I followed the link through, and haven't read it yet.

I would tend to belive Amnesty International over most governments regarding human rights allegations though.

[zurcherart.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Well, I didn't know anything about the press conference. So I'm glad your post caught my eye and made me search out the details. Thanks!

I would also tend to put alot of weight on Amnesty International's report. But I would also think they might overstate some details of the case.

I'm astounded by the Bush response though. I don't know why it astounds me. But it's just so, so, so argh I don't know what - wrong. It struck a nerve.

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

It certainly is conveniently timed for Bush.