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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 11:59 AM
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Fred Fielding: 9-11 Commissioner AND suspected “Deep Throat”
Perhaps this has been discussed before, but does anyone else find it peculiar that Fielding is on the 9/11 Commission, while “suspected” of being “Deep Throat?’

Fred Fielding
Fielding is another one who has been around the centers of power for a while on the Republican side. In the Nixon administration he was a deputy counsel working under John Dean. In the Watergate scandal he helped his boss (Dean) handle Howard Hunt's safe full of documents. They wore rubber gloves so as not to leave fingerprints. Fielding was not one of the twenty or so Nixon associates (including John Dean) that went to jail over their involvement. Later Fielding served as White House Counsel to President Reagan. More recently he was at least partly responsible for getting George W. Bush's political mentor Karl Rove in hot water over failure to divest his stock in Intel Corporation valued at over $100,000. Fielding advised Rove, who was planning to divest all of his stock, to hold onto it until a 'government certificate of divestiture' could be obtained. The certificate would have allowed deferral of capital gains taxes on stock sold.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00123.htm

Who is Deep Throat?
An investigation that revealed the anonymous
After a four-year investigation, students at the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have determined the identity of Deep Throat, the most elusive, anonymous news source in history: Fred Fielding, deputy counsel to former President Richard Nixon.

http://deepthroatuncovered.com/story/

“Deep Throat” brought down the Nixon Administration. Was Bush “waiting in the wings” to take the White House? Did Bush Sr. want the WH in 1976, but acquiesced when the Nixon pardon began boiling over? As I recall, Bush and Reagan both vied for the WH during 1980 campaign. Reagan won and Bush became VP. It seems the Bush Family has been on the national stage for the last several decades. Since 1980, a Bush has been on the GOP ticket in every election except 1996 (I suspect they knew Clinton was going to win, in spite of the GOP witch hunt, and sacrificed Bob Dole).

Is Fielding a “good soldier” for the Bush Family? Or could (he) be another “Deep Throat” on the 9-11 Commission? Any thoughts?
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