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Skriven 2005-06-04 07:22:36 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
  Kommentar till text 13326 av Stan Hardegree (1:379/1.2)
Ärende: Deep Throat
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03 Jun 05 17:33, Stan Hardegree wrote to John Hull:

 JH>> Britt Hume made the point that it made absolutely no sense to
 JH>> appoint Felt as Director after Hoover died, since damn near
 JH>> everybody wanted to get rid of the Gestapo like way of
 JH>> running the Bureau, and putting his hand-picked second in
 JH>> command in place as the new director would have been insane.
 JH>> The whole thing was just sour grapes and petty revenge on the
 JH>> part of Felt.

 JH>> As a journalist first and historian second, what's your take
 JH>> on it?

 SH> I don't understand why Felt went to the press instead of House and 
 SH> Senate Ethics committees, which were both controlled by 
 SH> Democrats...unless he thought Congress would see Watergate as no 
 SH> big deal and not act on his information.

Britt Hume and Fred Barnes have both discussed this aspect.  They think as you
suggest that Congress wouldn't have done much about it.  My take is that Felt
knew that if he went public it would damage his and the FBI's reputation.  He
was Hoover's stooge, and just didn't get that everybody in Washington wanted
the Hoover era over and gone, and Nixon wasn't about to put Hoover's hand
picked replacement up for nomination.  What's ironic about it all is that the
information he was feeding Woodward was no better than second or third hand,
and stuff that somebody would have eventually put together anyway.  

 SH> I see little historical significance to any other this.  Watergate 
 SH> is now 33 years old and Deepthroat's involvement in it is 
 SH> longstanding knowledge.  Actually putting a name with a shady 
 SH> character is hardly earth shattering.

 SH> This is what I think.  Felt is an old, old man now and has nothing 
 SH> to gain from this.  He is too old and infirm to enjoy any fortune 
 SH> that may accrue to him from book sales, for example.  I believe 
 SH> his daughter is behind this.  I belive that she will have Felt 
 SH> declared non compos mentis - for the rest of his short life - and 
 SH> act as his agent in negotiating book deals.  SHE will benefit from 
 SH> any profits those books earn.

I thought about that myself, briefly, when I saw the one picture with her
standing so close behind him with a sort of half smile on her face.  I'll add
this to your speculation as well.  I thing that it may be that she is also
trying to torpedo Bob Woodward's attempts to make further money off the whole
thing.  He was working on a book that is now pointless according to some
reports I've heard.  I'd bet hard money there's no love lost between her, her
dad, and Woodward because of the way he profited over all these years and Felt
got nothing.



John 

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