Deep Throat and Eerie Similarities
Jun. 2nd, 2005 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonOkay, so maybe I'm reading into things, but I've been following a lot of the news lately in regards to the revelation that former FBI 2nd-in-command Mark Felt was in fact Deep Throat. Fascinating story, really. Pretty much as exciting and creepy as the movie All the President's Men made it out to be.
I'm seeing a few, well, maybe not outright "forget-history-you're-doomed-to-repeat-it" similarities, but perhaps "this-pattern-seems-awfully-familiar" similarities. To wit:
From Bob Woodward's article from today's Washington Post:
At the time, pre-Watergate, there was little or no public knowledge of the vast pushing, shoving and outright acrimony between the Nixon White House and Hoover's FBI. The Watergate investigations later revealed that in 1970 a young White House aide named Tom Charles Huston had come up with a plan to authorize the CIA, the FBI and military intelligence units to intensify electronic surveillance of "domestic security threats," authorize illegal opening of mail, and lift the restrictions on surreptitious entries or break-ins to gather intelligence.
(For the record, Huston's plan was favored by Nixon, but shunned by Hoover, who thought that such actions were the FBI's bread and butter, and didn't want any competition. Interesting, huh? ;) Nixon nixed the plan four days later.)
Another gem, also from Woodward's article:
There is little doubt Felt thought the Nixon team were Nazis. During this period, he had to stop efforts by others in the bureau to "identify every member of every hippie commune" in the Los Angeles area, for example, or to open a file on every member of Students for a Democratic Society.
Sure, we all know now that that was going on then. Every cynic and conspiracy buff knows that this is part and parcel of any administration. I'm just wondering if our current administration is doing such things with people who are of the Muslim faith right now.
Patriot Act, anyone? ;)
More soon when I have the time...
(all quotes from Bob Woodward (c)2005 Bob Woodward/Washington Post. :) )
I'm seeing a few, well, maybe not outright "forget-history-you're-doomed-to-repeat-it" similarities, but perhaps "this-pattern-seems-awfully-familiar" similarities. To wit:
From Bob Woodward's article from today's Washington Post:
At the time, pre-Watergate, there was little or no public knowledge of the vast pushing, shoving and outright acrimony between the Nixon White House and Hoover's FBI. The Watergate investigations later revealed that in 1970 a young White House aide named Tom Charles Huston had come up with a plan to authorize the CIA, the FBI and military intelligence units to intensify electronic surveillance of "domestic security threats," authorize illegal opening of mail, and lift the restrictions on surreptitious entries or break-ins to gather intelligence.
(For the record, Huston's plan was favored by Nixon, but shunned by Hoover, who thought that such actions were the FBI's bread and butter, and didn't want any competition. Interesting, huh? ;) Nixon nixed the plan four days later.)
Another gem, also from Woodward's article:
There is little doubt Felt thought the Nixon team were Nazis. During this period, he had to stop efforts by others in the bureau to "identify every member of every hippie commune" in the Los Angeles area, for example, or to open a file on every member of Students for a Democratic Society.
Sure, we all know now that that was going on then. Every cynic and conspiracy buff knows that this is part and parcel of any administration. I'm just wondering if our current administration is doing such things with people who are of the Muslim faith right now.
Patriot Act, anyone? ;)
More soon when I have the time...
(all quotes from Bob Woodward (c)2005 Bob Woodward/Washington Post. :) )
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Date: 2005-06-02 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-02 05:29 pm (UTC)Okay then...
Date: 2005-06-02 06:05 pm (UTC)Storywise? Made one hell of a movie, and it's a fascinating bit of history.