Mr Colson spent the next five years doing quite the opposite. He schemed to degrade the reputations of White House enemies such as John Kerry and Daniel Ellsberg, and allegedly plotted to raid the Brookings Institution. Mr Colson denies that charge, first aired by John Dean. He spent seven months in prison—and that's where he remade himself as a born-again Christian, preaching the gospel to fellow prisoners.
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Some wounds don't fully heal because they're too deep and cut too close to the bone. The story that Deep Throat was Mark Felt has torn open old wounds. Pat Buchanan, Robert Novak and Chuck Colson--all at the top of their game 30 years ago, all very much in the game today--were passionate in their criticism, saying Mr. Felt has little to be proud of, was unprofessional, harmed his country.
Deep Throat (Watergate)
Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in to Bob Woodward , who shared it with Carl Bernstein. By then, Felt was suffering from dementia and had previously denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein then confirmed the attorney's claim. According to the authors, Deep Throat was a key source of information behind a series of articles that introduced the misdeeds of the Nixon administration to the general public. Haldeman , G.
Instead, he goes out and basically undermines the administration. Colson said because of its nature, the FBI has dossiers on everybody. Colson said if Felt thought the Watergate investigation was corrupt, he should have resigned.
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