W. Mark Felt, best known as Woodward and Bernstein’s (in)famous souce ‘Deep Throat’ who helped break the Watergate scandal has died of heart failure at the age of 95.
His identity as the informant was made public in 2005. In 1972, he was deputy associate director of the FBI when he began leaking information to journalist Bob Woodward. Read more…
Over the years, we’ve heard politicians say some whoppers: really dumb things that make us think, “ooh, did he just say that?” Well, yes he did. And here they are, bookended by Tricky Dick himself:
Journalist, Ron Suskind writes that Bush’s action is “one of the greatest lies in modern American political history” and suggests it is a crime of greater impact than Watergate. But the White House is denying the allegations, calling the book “absurd” and charging that Suskind practices “gutter journalism.”
The charge is made in “The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, released today.
Suskind says he spoke on the record with U.S. intelligence officials who stated that Bush was informed unequivocally in January 2003 that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction. Nonetheless, his book relates, Bush decided to invade Iraq three months later — with the forged letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam bolstering the U.S. rationale to go into war.
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