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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 11:56 AM
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Check out this rare Family photo of Deep Throat and I.
Over the weekend I read A G-Man's Life, the authorized book by, for, and about Mark "Deep Throat" Felt. (See also Woodward, Bob.) The story's pretty good, but the photo section's even better.

In 1978 Mark Felt was busted for spying on Americans without warrants or cause. During the Nixon administration he had been a number-two at the FBI, thus thought nothing of attacking our Constitution to the benefit of the people in power. Truth be told, he was a anti-terra fascist before any of us even heard of George W. Bush.

Anyways, one of the photos in A G-Man's Life shows Felt in 1979 -- flanked by lawyers and mobbed by the press -- waving to supporters from the doorway of a courthouse. Among the apparent lawyers in the photo, I spotted a familiar face. It seems to be that of the Bush Crime Family's very own I. Lewis Libby. (See also Woodward, Bob.)

Move along...








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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 11:57 AM
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1. wow, amazing how he didn't age a bit in 25+ years huh? n/t
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 12:07 PM
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3. Steam rooms and facials can do wonders for a guy!
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 12:14 PM
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4. Essence of Aspen roots.
Tones and tightens.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 12:21 PM
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5. ..
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 12:46 PM
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6. The pix on left does not appear to be a 28 year younger version of the pix on right
And what does Leslie Nielson have to do with it?
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 12:52 PM
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9. How 'bout 29?
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 02:22 PM
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10. The pix on left does not appear to be a 29 year younger version of the pix on right
And what does Leslie Nielson have to do with it?
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 02:46 PM
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12. Ah, I misread. Lewis Libby was about 29 at the time of the photo (if the caption is correct).
Edited on Mon Nov-05-07 02:47 PM by BuyingThyme
He was apparently a DC lawyer at the time. The photo above was apparently taken at a DC courthouse.

Libby's Wiki says he was "admitted to . . . the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on May 19, 1978." I haven't yet figured out if that would have logically placed him in or at the building shown.

In Felt's book there's another reference to a "tremendous show of support on the steps of the U.S. Courthouse in Washington," but that event is dated 1978.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=8&f=/c/a/2006/05/28/CMG0QIILUR56.DTL
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 03:49 PM
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15. I just assume his hairline would be further forward back then.
I don't doubt that he would have been up to no good in 1978.


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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 03:54 PM
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16. I think the hairline is telling.
Edited on Mon Nov-05-07 04:00 PM by BuyingThyme
The guy in the Felt photo combs it back and chops the sides. Today's Scooter combs it down to compensate. But you can see a similar trend.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 11:58 AM
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2. Are you Scooter or Leslie Nielsen?
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petersjo02 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 12:47 PM
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7. That would be
"Deep Throat and me." You would say "a photo of me," and when you inserted Deep Throat in between, that doesn't change.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 12:48 PM
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8. Wrong.
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 04:11 PM
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17. No, you are wrong,
and you should review basic grammar before arguing about it.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 04:53 PM
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18. You are wrong. It's not me, it's I.
Edited on Mon Nov-05-07 04:54 PM by BuyingThyme
I would remember.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 02:24 PM
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11. WOW
that is quite a find

I wonder if he'd like to answer some questions

He is, or rather was, a powerful lawyer
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 02:48 PM
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13. Umm... You might not want to stand with BuyingThyme on this one.
It's a small room.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 03:44 PM
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14. This TIME MAGAZINE article from May 1, 1978 explains what was going down at this time:
Discord and Disturbance at the FBI
Monday, May. 01, 1978

Veteran agents challenge some decisions by their new chief

They came from New York City, from Philadelphia and Richmond, and from headquarters a few blocks away. They were all neatly dressed in jackets and ties, some still in the white shirts and short hair of yesteryear. On their own time and at their own expense, nearly 700 past and present FBI agents gathered last week in front of the U.S. courthouse in Washington for an extraordinary protest demonstration against the indictments of three former bureau officials.

L. Patrick Gray III, acting director of the bureau under President Nixon, W. Mark Felt, who ended his 31-year FBI career in 1973 as the bureau's second in command, and Edward S. Miller, who quit the bureau in 1974 after serving as assistant director of the intelligence division, were about to be arraigned for violating the civil rights of citizens—friends and relatives of Weatherman fugitives—by ordering illegal break-ins.

As the three strode through the crowd of G-men, applause rang out. At the courthouse door, New York Agent Patrick Connor read a statement: "Let this event assure the American people that our fight against terrorists was nothing more than our just and sworn duty." Replied Felt emotionally: "All I can say is God bless every one of you."

In court, when the charges were read to the three defendants, Gray defiantly shouted his answer: "Not guilty!" The other two entered similar pleas. They were all released on their own recognizance—a trial is not expected before fall—but they had to undergo the embarrassment of being mugged and fingerprinted, and having these documents added to the criminal files of the agency they once ruled.

...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919547-1,00.html
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