Nixon's empire strikes back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1502532,00.html
Bush's imperial project has succeeded by learning the chief lesson of
Watergate - muzzle the press.
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday June 9, 2005
The Guardian
The unveiling of the identity of Deep Throat - Mark Felt, the former
deputy director of the FBI - seemed affirm the story of Watergate as
the triumph of the lone journalist supported from the shadows by a
magically appearing secret source. Shazam! The outlines of the fuller
story we now know, thanks not only to Felt's selfunmasking but to
disclosures the Albany Times Union of upstate New York, unreported so
far by any major outlet. Felt was not working as "a disgruntled
maverick ... but rather as the leader of a clandestine group" of three
other high-level agents to control the story by collecting intelligence
and leaking it. For more than 30 years the secrecy around Deep Throat
diverted attention to who Deep Throat was rather than what Deep Throat
was - a covert FBI operation in which Washington Post reporter Bob
Woodward was almost certainly an unwitting asset.
Sidney Blumenthal
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Richard Nixon
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Watergate
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/e133cb05d7c1b947
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