Pease goes for the Throat

Bear with the Throat guessing game just a bit longer. It'll be over soon.

Of all the new writing on the subject, some of the most interesting thoughts have come from Lisa Pease, one of the few writers unafraid to go after the intelligence community's links to Watergate. Those links are obvious to any who have studied the history, yet most commentators refuse to mention them.

Pease directs much of her suspicion at Fred Fielding, who worked in John Dean's office:

I’ve long suspected that Dean knows who Deep Throat is, and that his whole effort to "find" Deep Throat has been his attempt to distance himself from the fact that the leaks were coming from his own office. Woodward described Deep Throat as someone "in the Executive Branch who had access to information at CRP [the Committee to Re-elect the President] as well as the White House." Dean has tried to portray himself as a good guy caught in a bad situation, rather than an outright turncoat working to bring down his employer.

I'm not sure I agree. Pointing toward Dean helps leas us away from the Agency -- and I would not want to justify the revisionist rantings offered by Liddy and his like.

Pease also makes a good case against Bennett, who remains my favorite candidate. Is he sick? I have no idea. But he has looked better.

Rehnquist? Felt? Ehhhhh. Yeah, they're sick. Yeah, they could have done it. But they're so boring.

And as long as we've got a case of the DTs...With all the newfound media attention being paid to Deep Throat, do you think we can drum up some enthusiasm for uncovering Deep Trance? That is the sobriquet of the "inside" source cultivated by John Marks when he wrote The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate", his expose of the CIA's mind control program.